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Main citation analysis tools

  Strengths Weaknesses
Web of Science Advanced citation searching and analysis features
Citation data available from 1900 to date
Broad coverage of high impact journals
Additional citation data is available by searching all databases
Conference papers, books, book chapters and dissertations excluded
Limited coverage of nonEnglish language titles
Conference proceedings are available but may not be part of your library's subscription
Scopus Advanced citation searching and analysis features
Better coverage of Social Sciences titles
Includes conference proceedings
GCU does not subscribe to this service
Books, book chapters and dissertations excluded
Citation data for papers published from 1995 onwards only
Google Scholar (Publish or perish) Free
Covers non-English langauge titles
Covers all types of publications including books and conference papers
No quality control, lots of errors in data
Does not cover all journals
Covers non-scholarly content
Coverage uneven across disciplines
Difficult to deal with name variants

 

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My RI by University College Dublin, Dublin City University, Dublin Institute of Technology, The National University of Ireland, Maynooth and the NDLR adapted by Marion Kelt, Glasgow Caledonian University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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