A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases
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Keywords
web of science; scopus; database; citations; provenance; coverage; searching; citation tracking; impact factor; indexing; h-index; researcher profile; researcher ID;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I0 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - General
- I2 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education
- I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
- O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
- O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
- Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General
- Z00 - Other Special Topics - - General - - - General
- Z1 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics
- Z18 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Public Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-SOG-2013-05-19 (Sociology of Economics)
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