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Three options for citation tracking: Google Scholar, Scopus and Web of Science

Overview of attention for article published in Biomedical Digital Libraries, June 2006
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)

Mentioned by

blogs
2 blogs
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
9 X users
wikipedia
7 Wikipedia pages

Citations

dimensions_citation
551 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
590 Mendeley
citeulike
36 CiteULike
connotea
10 Connotea
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Title
Three options for citation tracking: Google Scholar, Scopus and Web of Science
Published in
Biomedical Digital Libraries, June 2006
DOI 10.1186/1742-5581-3-7
Pubmed ID
Authors

Nisa Bakkalbasi, Kathleen Bauer, Janis Glover, Lei Wang

Abstract

Researchers turn to citation tracking to find the most influential articles for a particular topic and to see how often their own published papers are cited. For years researchers looking for this type of information had only one resource to consult: the Web of Science from Thomson Scientific. In 2004 two competitors emerged--Scopus from Elsevier and Google Scholar from Google. The research reported here uses citation analysis in an observational study examining these three databases; comparing citation counts for articles from two disciplines (oncology and condensed matter physics) and two years (1993 and 2003) to test the hypothesis that the different scholarly publication coverage provided by the three search tools will lead to different citation counts from each.

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 15 3%
United Kingdom 14 2%
Brazil 6 1%
Spain 6 1%
Mexico 5 <1%
Netherlands 4 <1%
Australia 4 <1%
Malaysia 4 <1%
Germany 4 <1%
Other 30 5%
Unknown 498 84%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 83 14%
Researcher 80 14%
Student > Master 68 12%
Librarian 54 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 39 7%
Other 171 29%
Unknown 95 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 90 15%
Computer Science 78 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 59 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 54 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 41 7%
Other 150 25%
Unknown 118 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 28. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 January 2021.
All research outputs
#1,165,701
of 22,756,196 outputs
Outputs from Biomedical Digital Libraries
#1
of 12 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,802
of 64,140 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Biomedical Digital Libraries
#1
of 1 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,756,196 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 12 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.7. This one scored the same or higher as 11 of them.
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