Comments on: Google Scholar vs. Scopus & Web of Science

By: rosangela aparecida galdi da silva

rosangela aparecida galdi da silva — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:09:53 +0000

mestrado em educação

By: Contagem de citações e identificação de autoria – O Google Scholar Citations : A Biblioteca Informa

Wed, 30 May 2012 13:57:38 +0000

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By: Jason Snyder

Jason Snyder — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:27:06 +0000

YES! Interesting huh? Back to the drawing board?

By: sil

sil — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:50:27 +0000

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22423105

By: katiesci

katiesci — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 18:13:13 +0000

Congrats on the job!!

I do not yet have enough papers (1, not first author) to have an opinion on the topic at hand though I do appreciate that Google Scholar is easier to access. Although it doesn’t seem to be a quick option in the More drop down menu on the Google main page anymore which has been pissing me off lately.

By: Sil

Sil — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:39:27 +0000

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22365813

You must have read this paper already, but I’ll send it just in case. It’s a big one. I know you’ve been tracking this data through several SfN meetings, but now it’s in print. Any thoughts?

PS: Congrats on your job. I don’t think it will go entirely downhill from here. If you’re feeling endangered, you could always hop on the optogenetics bandwagon.

By: Werner Muller

Werner Muller — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:41:56 +0000

One more advantage of Google Scholar is that it is not limiting the time window and it gives the last 5 years separate of the overall scores. ResearcherID, where I can make sure that it contains all papers I author, is looking back only 20 years. Web of Science and Scopus are still not able to get the list of my papers extracted correctly.

By: Zen Faulkes

Zen Faulkes — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:48:59 +0000

What puzzles me about the letters in Nature, and this post to a lesser degree, is the that they overlook an obvious solution:

Use them all.

Treat each database like you would treat mean, median, and mode: slightly different measures that try to measure the same thing. In theory, they should agree with each other in broad strokes.