A new methodology for comparing Google Scholar and Scopus
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Comparing source coverage, citation counts and speed of indexing in Google Scholar and Scopus
A new methodology is proposed for comparing Google Scholar (GS) with other citation indexes. It focuses on the coverage and citation impact of sources, indexing speed, and data quality, including the effect of duplicate citation counts. The method compares GS with Elsevier’s Scopus, and is applied to a limited set of articles published in 12 journals from six subject fields, so that its finding...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Informetrics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1751-1577
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2016.04.017