Comparing alternatives to the Web of Science for coverage of the social sciences' literature

By Michael Norris, C. Oppenheim. J. Informetrics, 2007

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Subfields: Information Systems, Information Systems and Management, Statistics and Probability

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Mapping 50 Years of Small Group Research Through Small Group Research (2020, methodology): “We chose SCOPUS because it is the largest multidisciplinary database of peer-reviewed literature in the social sciences (Bartol et al., 2014; Norris & Oppenheim, 2007) and is widely recognized and used in BDA quantitative analyses (Durán-Sánchez et al., 2019; Guerrero-Baena et al., 2014; Silveira &…”
What is the future of work? A science mapping analysis (2020, methodology): “In the first stage (data search), we retrieved documents from the Web of Science (WoS) database (www.webofknowledge.com), which offers exhaustive coverage of the social sciences literature (Norris&Oppenheim, 2007).”
International entrepreneurship: a bibliometric overview (2018, background): “2011), it is clear that there is a tendency to consider the WoS as the main parameter of quality in the social science research (Norris and Oppenheim 2007).”
A bibliometric analysis of creativity in the field of business economics (2018, background): “It has been established that the Web of Science has a significant advantage over other data bases because it includes social sciences literature (Norris & Oppenheim, 2007).”
Radical innovations: Between established knowledge and future research opportunities (2020, methodology): “We retrieved our data set of 448 publications on 17 Janary 2020 from the Web of Science (WoS), which is regarded as comprehensive database of scholarly literature (Gaviria-Marin, erigó, & Baier-Fuentes, 2019; Norris & Oppenheim, 2007).”
Bibliometrics to webometrics (2008, background): “Another investigation compared different databases for coverage of social sciences research, finding Scopus to offer particularly good coverage [36].”
A review of the literature on citation impact indicators (2015, background): “Norris and Oppenheim (2007) observe that Scopus has a better coverage than WoS of social science publications submitted to the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise.”
A Systematic Review of Risk Factors for Intimate Partner Violence (2012, neutral): “These databases were selected for their quality and depth of coverage of social science literature ( Norris & Oppenheim, 2007; Taylor, Wylie, Dempster, & Donnelly, 2007).”
Past, present, and future of sustainable finance: insights from big data analytics through machine learning of scholarly research (2022, neutral): “…articles usingtheaforementionedsearchstringinthe“articletitle,abstract,andkeywords”onScopus, whichisthelargesthigh-quality scientiﬁc database of scholarly articles (Comerio & Strozzi, 2019; Norris & Oppenheim, 2007), and thus chosen over its alternative, Web of Science, which contains less…”
Large-scale analysis of the accuracy of the journal classification systems of Web of Science and Scopus (2015, neutral): “ One is the coverage of the databases (e.g., López-‐Illescas et al., 2008; Meho & Rogers, 2008; Mongeon & Paul-‐Hus, 2016; Norris & Oppenheim, 2007) and the other is the accuracy of the databases when used to assess research output and …”
Journal Quality in Mathematics Education (2017, background): “Recent studies (Meho & Yang, 2007; Norris & Oppenheim, 2007; Roales-Nieto & O’Neill, 2012) found substantial differences among the SCI and SSCI, Scopus, and Google Scholar databases in both journal inclusion and ability to locate references.”
Evidence for the network perspective on organizational learning (2008, background): “by Norris and Oppenheim (2007) found that in terms of finding links to individual”
Framing climate change for effective communication: a systematic map (2020, background): “Scopus has been identified as a database with one of the best coverages of social science literature (Norris and Oppenheim 2007).”