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?

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.

Gaming the impact factor: where who cites what, whom and when

“…They call their metric the "2-year Google-based Journal Impact Factor (2-GJIF)" [6]. Google Scholar is able to discover more citations than either the Web of Science or Scopus [7]. Hence the 2-GJIF will be higher than the corresponding metric produced using Web of Science or Scopus data.…”

Databases and Associated Bioinformatic Tools in Studies of Food Allergens, Epitopes and Haptens – a Review

“…De la Iglesia and coworkers [2013] have presented number of citations in Web of Science for particular databases. More recent publications, concerning various areas of science, e.g., biomedical sciences, recommend application of all three resources [Harzing & Alkangas, 2016, Trapp, 2016. The data on this subject are summarized in Table 1.…”

“Revise before review; Reject without review; Reject after review”: why manuscripts are rejected

“…Papers that are sound but that are adjudged to be of little importance or make a very minor contribution to the field, may not be accepted-authors may be advised to conduct additional investigations. A more recent phenomenon that may apply to some journals is that manuscripts may be rejected because they are adjudged unlikely to attract citations and so will adversely affect the journal's impact factor [3].…”