The expansion of Google Scholar versus Web of Science: a longitudinal study

Volume: 98, Issue: 2, Pages: 1547 - 1565
Published: Feb 1, 2014
Abstract
Web of Science (WoS) and Google Scholar (GS) are prominent citation services with distinct indexing mechanisms. Comprehensive knowledge about the growth patterns of these two citation services is lacking. We analyzed the development of citation counts in WoS and GS for two classic articles and 56 articles from diverse research fields, making a distinction between retroactive growth (i.e., the relative difference between citation counts up to...
Paper Details
Title
The expansion of Google Scholar versus Web of Science: a longitudinal study
Published Date
Feb 1, 2014
Volume
98
Issue
2
Pages
1547 - 1565
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