Document (#26256)

Author

Whitley, K.M.

Title

Analysis of SciFinder Scholar and Web of Science citation searches

Source

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and technology. 53(2002) no.14, S.1210-1215

Year

2002

Abstract

Chemical Abstracts Service recently unveiled citation searching in Chemical Abstracts. With Chemical Abstracts and Science Citation Index both now available for citation searching, this study compares the duplication and uniqueness of citing references for works of chemistry researchers for the years 1999-2001. The two indexes cover very similar source material, so one would expect the citation results to be very similar. This analysis of SciFinder Scholar and Web of Science shows some important differences as the databases are currently offered. Authors and institutions using citation counts as measures of scientific productivity should take note.

Theme

Informetrie
Citation indexing

Field

Chemie

Object

Web of science
SciFinder Scholar
Chemical abstracts

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