2007
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20677
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Impact of data sources on citation counts and rankings of LIS faculty: Web of science versus scopus and google scholar

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“…In several case [14,17] in which, for example, the scientific productivity of an author is described by the number of publications, citations and H-index, it is important to understand their sources, because the same variables may take different values if they are obtained via Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar or other disciplinary databases. In literature, there are also some papers in which the journal coverages of the various fields of these databases are compared [2,16,35] . In the greater part of these cases, although exceptions are made for medical sciences and some hard sciences, none of these is thoroughly exhaustive or representative.…”
Section: Indexes and Metricsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In several case [14,17] in which, for example, the scientific productivity of an author is described by the number of publications, citations and H-index, it is important to understand their sources, because the same variables may take different values if they are obtained via Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar or other disciplinary databases. In literature, there are also some papers in which the journal coverages of the various fields of these databases are compared [2,16,35] . In the greater part of these cases, although exceptions are made for medical sciences and some hard sciences, none of these is thoroughly exhaustive or representative.…”
Section: Indexes and Metricsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Recently MEHO & YANG (2007) studied the effect of using Scopus on the rankings of LIS faculty members and found it to be significant. Scopus content is still somewhat fluent and subject to change as some of its gaps are being filled until now.…”
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“…Firstly, we performed an electronic search on the digital platforms such as Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Scholar. It was acknowledged through prior work that the coverage and reach provided by Google Scholar was more extensive than other similar academic repositories [19]. We searched keywords that included 'Adaptive social robots', 'Autonomous Robots', 'Adaptation and Robot', 'Applications of Adaptive Robots' and 'Adaptive Robotics Systems'.…”
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confidence: 99%