
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 |
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/.