PILOT logo, post doc PILOT logo, information PILOT logo, literacy PILOT logo, online PILOT logo, tutorial welcome information contents page search and retrieve contents page acquiring and managing information contents page new technologies contents page
digital footprint contents page
copyright contents page IL pilot license contents page databases contents page publication process contents page
Welcome

The main bibliometric tools

Let's take some time to look in detail at each of the main three tools used for bibliometric and citation analyses. It is really important that you know which publications are covered by these tools, the breadth and depth of coverage and the citation analysis features available to you. This will help inform your decision as to whether you should use one or more of these tools for research assessment purposes.

We'll discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each of the three tools in module 2

 

Strengths

Weaknesses
Web of Science (part of the Web of Knowlede suite of resources) -Advanced citation searching and
analysis features
-Citation data availale from 1900
-Broad coverage of high impact
journals
-Additional citation data is available in WOk by searching all databases
-Conference papers, book chapters and dissertations all excluded
-Limited coverage of non-English language articles
-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 science titles
-Includes conference proceedings
-Only one library in Scotland has access, and it is not us!
-Books, book chapters and dissertations all excluded
-Citation data from papers published from 1996 -
Google Scholar (publish or perish) -Free
-Covers non-English language publications
-Covers all types of publications including books and conference publications
-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
GCU logofont +  |   font -  |   next small plane | small plane previous page |  unit home small plane

Creative Commons License

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.
Based on a work at http://www.ndlr.ie/myri/.