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Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar Citation Rates: A Case Study of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering: What Gets Cited and What Doesn’t?

Trapp, Jamie·2016·Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Abstract

There are often differences in a publication's citation count, depending on the database accessed. Here, aspects of citation counts for medical physics and biomedical engineering papers are studied using papers published in the journal Australasian physical and engineering sciences in medicine. Comparison is made between the Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar. Papers are categorised into subject matter, and citation trends are examined. It is shown that review papers as a group tend to receive more citations on average; however the highest cited individual papers are more likely to be research papers.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1007/s13246-016-0478-2

Cites

54 of 54 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Trapp, J.
Affiliations
Queensland University of Technology (AU)
Corresponding author
Trapp, Jamie
Venue
Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine
Published
2016-08-30
Volume
39
Issue
4
Pages
817-823
ISSN
  • 0158-9938 (ISSN-L)
  • 1879-5447
OpenAlex
W2517950269
Cited by
24
References
54
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 1
FWCI
4.08
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology) (submittedVersion)
  • Science & Engineering Faculty
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Web visibility and informetrics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Academic Writing and Publishing
Keywords
citation counts, bibliographic database comparison, Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, medical physics, biomedical engineering, research papers, citation trends
MeSH terms
Biomedical Engineering, Biophysics, Publications, Science, Databases, Factual

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

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