Abstract
Nowadays, the world’s scientific community has been
publishing an enormous number of papers in different scientific fields.
In such environment, it is essential to know which databases are equally
efficient and objective for literature searches. It seems that two most
extensive databases are Web of Science and Scopus. Besides searching
the literature, these two databases used to rank journals in terms of
their productivity and the total citations received to indicate the
journals impact, prestige or influence. This article attempts to provide
a comprehensive comparison of these databases to answer frequent
questions which researchers ask, such as: How Web of Science and Scopus
are different? In which aspects these two databases are similar? Or, if
the researchers are forced to choose one of them, which one should they
prefer? For answering these questions, these two databases will be
compared based on their qualitative and quantitative characteristics.
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- DOI:10.5539/ass.v9n5p18
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