{"id":21481,"date":"2018-08-16T07:27:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T06:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=21481"},"modified":"2018-08-16T07:27:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T06:27:07","slug":"google-scholar-web-of-science-and-scopus-a-systematic-comparison-of-citations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2018\/08\/16\/google-scholar-web-of-science-and-scopus-a-systematic-comparison-of-citations\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Google Scholar, Web Of Science, and Scopus: A Systematic Comparison of Citations&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new preprint on arxiv.org, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/ftp\/arxiv\/papers\/1808\/1808.05053.pdf\">Google Scholar, Web Of Science, and Scopus: A Systematic Comparison of Citations in 252 Subject Categories&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Google Scholar&#8217;s&#8230; &#8220;citation data is essentially a superset of WoS and Scopus, with substantial extra coverage.&#8221; This is partly because &#8220;Google Scholar is able to pick up citations&#8230; &#8220;from non-journal sources &#8230; including theses, books, conference papers, and unpublished materials &#8230; Many were non-English (19%-38%), and they tended to be much less cited than citing sources that were also in Scopus or WoS.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, there are also warnings in the conclusions section, especially that in Google Scholar&#8230; &#8220;some of the citations [come] from Master&#8217;s theses&#8221;.  Also note that Google Scholar&#8217;s citation counts were found to be &#8220;lower in the Humanities&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new preprint on arxiv.org, &#8220;Google Scholar, Web Of Science, and Scopus: A Systematic Comparison of Citations in 252 Subject &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2018\/08\/16\/google-scholar-web-of-science-and-scopus-a-systematic-comparison-of-citations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to-improve-academic-search","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}