A comparison of Scopus and Web of Science for a typical university

Vieira, Elizabeth S.; Gomes, J.A.N.F.

doi:10.1007/s11192-009-2178-0

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“…Kotsemir & Shashnov, 2017;Li, Burnham, Lemley, & Britton, 2010;Meho & Yang, 2006;Shashnov & Kotsemir, 2015;Vieira & Gomes, 2009). A key advantage of Scopus for our analysis is the presence of the system of unique author and organization identifiers (profiles).…”

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Italian Economics Departments’ Scientific Research Performance: Comparison between VQR and ASN Methodologies

Guida¹

2018

IJBM

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The aim of this article is to investigate whether there are important differences between the evaluation procedures adopted by the Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research in the evaluation of scientific research. The two procedures, one for the periodic exercise of the evaluation of scientific research activities and the other to verify the possession of the requisites necessary to be employed as a professor at a university, have different purposes and have been implemented with different evaluation approaches. Analysing sample data extracted from the well-known Scopus database, we replicate the assessment methodologies, obtaining some interesting results. The two procedures identify the same departments of excellence and draw similar rankings. The two evaluation criteria are not so far apart in the identification of the departments of excellence. Through the use of coloured maps, we then identify that the distribution of the departments of excellence in the national territory favours the northern regions.

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Italian Economics Departments’ Scientific Research Performance: Comparison between VQR and ASN Methodologies

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2018

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“…The Scopus database was selected for currently being the largest database of scientific publications, with almost 22,000 registered journals (Elsevier, 2015), higher number than what is offered by Web of Science, and concentrated in more recent years; further, most journals indexed in the Web of Science database are also indexed in the Scopus database (Vieira;). The SciELO database was selected for its relevance in the Brazilian context, counting 1,221 registered journals (Mugnaini et al, 2014;SciELO, 2015).…”

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What Does the Academic Research Say About Impact Assessment and Environmental Licensing in Brazil?

2017

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Scholarly papers on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in Brazil were reviewed aiming at surveying the state of research in this field. Searches in three databases identified 131 papers published between 1985 and 2015. They were classified under: case analysis (45%); analysis of the EIA system (32%), discussion about methods (15%) and evaluation of quality of EIA documents (8%). It was found that those papers: (i) deal with highly complex cases; (ii) identify several weaknesses in the EIA system, but also some achievements and improvements; (iii) address a number of weaknesses identified in other studies; and (iv) show recurrent deficiencies, as well as temporal evolution in the quality of EIA documents. Some topics often pointed as weaknesses in the national debate and the international literature were not addressed in this set of papers. This research field is at an early development stage in Brazil, but features a growing number of publications.

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“…Although there is a significant overlap between the contents of Scopus and the Web of Science (Norris & Oppenheim, 2007), two factors made Scopus stand out: 1) a greater number of journals, and a much greater number of non-English-language journals are indexed by Scopus, than by the Web of Science (Li, Qiao, Li, & Jin, 2014;Mongeon & Paul-Hus, 2016;Vieira & Gomes, 2009); 2) Scopus was technically easier to manage and data mine. The main advantage of Scopus is that when typing the name of a country (e.g., Sweden) into the "Affiliation search" field, the system lists all affiliations in that country (e.g., 395 affiliation results in Sweden) and assigns them to cities (e.g., 75 cities in Sweden).…”

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Csomós

2017

Journal of Informetrics

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A comparison of Scopus and Web of Science for a typical university

Cited by 388 publications

References 9 publications

Italian Economics Departments’ Scientific Research Performance: Comparison between VQR and ASN Methodologies

Italian Economics Departments’ Scientific Research Performance: Comparison between VQR and ASN Methodologies

What Does the Academic Research Say About Impact Assessment and Environmental Licensing in Brazil?

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