A tale of two databases: the use of Web of Science and Scopus in academic papers
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Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus are the two main bibliographic databases.
“Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus are the two main bibliographic DBs.”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [10]
Scopus has earned an equal place as a comprehensive bibliographic data source and has proven itself reliable and, in some respects, even better than WoS.
“Over the years, Scopus has earned its equal place as a comprehensive bibliographic data source and it has proven itself to be reliable and, in some respects, even better than WoS [10,13].”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [10]
Cites
Meta-analysis and the science of research synthesis
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Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar: A content comprehensiveness comparison
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Trends in Russian Research Output Indexed in Scopus and Web of Science
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Missing Author Address Information in Web of Science—An Explorative Study
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Self-citationThe Secrets behind Web of Science’s DOI Search
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Self-citation
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Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World
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A systematic literature review of the role of trust and security on FinTech adoption in banking
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Accuracy of Funding Information in Scopus: A Comparative Case Study
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Self-citationBasson, I., Simard, M.-A., Ouangré, Z. A., Sugimoto, C. R., & Larivière, V. (2022) · PLOS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0265545 · Cited by 62 · see citing works
Immersive Virtual Reality-Based Methods for Assessing Executive Functioning: Systematic Review
Kirkham, R., Kooijman, L., Albertella, L., Myles, D., Yücel, M., & Rotaru, K. (2024) · JMIR Serious Games · doi:10.2196/50282 · Cited by 40 · see citing works
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- Authors
- Zhu, J., & Liu, W.
- Affiliations
- East China Normal University (CN)
- Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Liu, Weishu
- Venue
- Scientometrics
- Published
- 2020-02-22
- Volume
- 123
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 321-335
- ISSN
- 0138-9130 (ISSN-L)
- 1588-2861
- OpenAlex
- W3008231817
- Cited by
- 1,556
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2026: 274 · 2025: 428 · 2024: 355 · 2023: 248 · 2022: 147 · 2021: 80 · 2020: 23 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 75.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Locations
- Scientometrics (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (71801189, 71904168)
- Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (LQ18G030010, 71904168)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Web visibility and informetrics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Library Science and Information
- Keywords
- Web of Science, Scopus, citation indexes, Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index, meta-analysis, developing countries, knowledge domains
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