A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases
Islamic Azad University, Tehran · Islamic Azad University Mobarakeh · +5 more institutions
Abstract
Nowadays, the world’s scientific community has been publishing an enormous number of papers in different scientific fields. In such environment, it is essential to know which databases are equally efficient and objective for literature searches. It seems that two most extensive databases are Web of Science and Scopus. Besides searching the literature, these two databases used to rank journals in terms of their productivity and the total citations received to indicate the journals impact, prestige or influence. This article attempts to provide a comprehensive comparison of these databases to answer frequent questions which researchers ask, such as: How Web of Science and Scopus are different? In which aspects…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 19.13
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 35
Authors
7- AAArezoo Aghaei ChadeganiCorresponding
Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Islamic Azad University Mobarakeh
- HSHadi Salehi
Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Islamic Azad University of Najafabad
- MMMelor Md Yunus
Institute for Learning Innovation, National University of Malaysia
- HFHadi Farhadi
University Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, National University of Malaysia
- MFMasood Fooladi
Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Islamic Azad University Mobarakeh
Topics & keywords
- Scopus
- Web of science
- Prestige
- Rank (graph theory)
- Database
- Computer science
- Bibliographic database
- Publishing
- Decent work and economic growth