NDLI: Citations to the “Introduction to informetrics” indexed by WOS, Scopus and Google Scholar

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Bar Ilan, Judit
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	Google Scholar and Scopus are recent rivals to Web of Science. In this paper we examined these three citation databases through the citations of the book “Introduction to informetrics” by Leo Egghe and Ronald Rousseau. Scopus citations are comparable to Web of Science citations when limiting the citation period to 1996 and onwards (the citation coverage of Scopus)—each database covered about 90% of the citations located by the other. Google Scholar missed about 30% of the citations covered by Scopus and Web of Science (90 citations), but another 108 citations located by Google Scholar were not covered either by Scopus or by Web of Science. Google Scholar performed considerably better than reported in previous studies, however Google Scholar is not very “user-friendly” as a bibliometric data collection tool at this point in time. Such “microscopic” analysis of the citing documents retrieved by each of the citation databases allows us a deeper understanding of the similarities and the differences between the databases.
Starting Page	495
Ending Page	506
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01389130
Journal	Scientometrics
Volume Number	82
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15882861
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2010-02-17
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Citations Web of Science Scopus Google Scholar Introduction to informetrics Interdisciplinary Studies Library Science Information Storage and Retrieval
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Library and Information Sciences Computer Science Applications

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