COMPARISON

Scopus vs. Web of Science

Scopus vs. Web of Science

Introduction

Thomson Scientific and Elsevier provide themselves with their multidisciplinary citation databases, an elephant race. Once Elsevier on 13 May 2006 must be for Author Identifier Scopus was released, Thomson Scientific drew on 8 June 2006 with the announcement of his Authorship Tools for Web of Science after.

Comparison

The Author Identifier automatically distinguishes Scopus same authors and matches variations of author names. For this, the Author Identifier turns to additional information such as institutional affiliation, journal title, subject or co-authors. According to the algorithm assigns Elsevier publications with a probability of 99% the right authors. In addition to the publications of a particular scientist Scopus determined the most important co-authors. With the Scopus Citation Tracker, moreover, citation analyses of the publications identified are carried out.

The Authorship Tools Web of Science automatically distinguish between homonymous authors, and list variations for a given author names. The selection of the relevant variation is to be facilitated by information and institutional affiliation on the subject. A direct link to the record in ISIHighlyCited.com, a list of highly cited scientists with biographical and bibliographical information is given if indicated. An important innovation is ultimately the author's name; the names are recorded in full in future. Authorship tools are implemented according to Thomson Scientific to late 2006.

The extended functionality of the multidisciplinary citation databases is for the user is most gratifying. Is all the more, as exploited its monopoly position in the Thomson Scientific citation databases of the area for decades and stingy with new features. Thus, the database producer can, in the year of publication involve a search is implemented in September 2005 in Web of Science (Dorothy 2011).

Evaluation on Medical University Basis

Evaluation is at the Medical University of Vienna is an important issue. So the resources within the University in accordance with the performance criteria defined valuation method distributed, the basis of an especially for each department Normalized Impact Factor is calculated. Academic performance but can also otherwise be measured. Within a teaching hospital or research group the publications of academic staff by citation analysis evaluated. For application to specific locations, the individual scientist current citation provides.

Since 2005, the University Library at the Medical University of Vienna is on Scopus campus of the database available. This is not just a further scientific literature database, but a competing product to Web of Science with a focus in the search of the reference fields, and so is the Answer the question of how often a scientific publication is cited, made possible.

In the rare ideal case, a complete list of publications starts from the citation analysis. But usually there is a desire, using only one Author's name and the knowledge in which scientific work is one subject area, quickly to begin the search for citations.

Web of Science degree from the path leads through a Cited Reference Search to Cited Reference Index, from which it is the Times Cited to the individual publications, can infer an ...