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Impact of data sources on citation counts and rankings of LIS faculty: Web of science versus scopus and google scholar

Meho, Lokman I., Yang, Kiduk·2007·Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
DOI 10.1002/asi.20677
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Abstract

The Institute for Scientific Information's (ISI, now Thomson Scientific, Philadelphia, PA) citation databases have been used for decades as a starting point and often as the only tools for locating citations and/or conducting citation analyses. The ISI databases (or Web of Science [WoS]), however, may no longer be sufficient because new databases and tools that allow citation searching are now available. Using citations to the work of 25 library and information science (LIS) faculty members as a case study, the authors examine the effects of using Scopus and Google Scholar (GS) on the citation counts and rankings of scholars as measured by WoS. Overall, more than 10,000 citing and purportedly citing documents were examined. Results show that Scopus significantly alters the relative ranking of those scholars that appear in the middle of the rankings and that GS stands out in its coverage of conference proceedings as well as international, non‐English language journals. The use of Scopus and GS, in addition to WoS, helps reveal a more accurate and comprehensive picture of the scholarly impact of authors. The WoS data took about 100 hours of collecting and processing time, Scopus consumed 200 hours, and GS a grueling 3,000 hours.

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Authors
Meho, L. I., & Yang, K.
Affiliations
Indiana University Bloomington (US)
ORCID
Venue
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2007-08-30
Volume
58
Issue
13
Pages
2105-2125
ISSN
  • 1532-2882 (ISSN-L)
  • 1532-2890
DOI
10.1002/asi.20677
OpenAlex
W4255356361
Cited by
974
References
53
Citations by year
2026: 31 · 2025: 42 · 2024: 45 · 2023: 63 · 2022: 69 · 2021: 44 · 2020: 78 · 2019: 64 · 2018: 65 · 2017: 54 · 2016: 65 · 2015: 51 · 2014: 38 · 2013: 50 · 2012: 53
FWCI
42.91
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor)
Locations
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Web visibility and informetrics
  • Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Library Science and Information
Keywords
citation indexes, Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, library and information science faculty, citation counts, scholar ranking, citation analysis, database coverage, non-English-language journals, scholarly impact

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