Comparing Scopus and Web of Science.pdf
- 1. SUMMARY Please check the approved Journal List you provided from China. All journals are both SSCI and SCOPUS. To clarify your confusion about SSCI and SCOPUS = plz note, all SCI/SSCI/SCIE/ESCI journals are listed in both Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus. From the above background infor- mation on Scopus and WoS, it means SCI=SSCI=SCIE=ESCI = Web of Science = Clarivate Company Ranking or SCI=SSCI=SCIE=ESCI = Scopus = Elsevier. All experts say both companies are good so we must choose based on our own best fit (follow Q ranking you want and pricing budget). Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 Ranking is for China and some other countries, not all over the world. There are Q1 journals which don’t have Scopus and WoS. Plz clear this concept also. Q ranking is separate. Q1 with only SSCI or Scopus is NOT HIGHEST ranking journal. Q1 with both SSCI and Scopus is the highest rank journal, but they will be very expensive. Web of Science is an online subscription-based scientific citation indexing service origi- nally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), now maintained by Clari- vate Analytics. It includes 34,200 journals along with numerous books, proceedings, patents, and data sets. If you want to access Web of Science, you require subscription and IP authentication. Scopus is an interdisciplinary bibliographic online database launched in 2004 containing ab- stracts and citation database as a competitor to Web of Science. Scopus is owned by Else- vier, an international publication group. Access to Scopus is through subscription only. It co- vers about 36,000 journal titles from more than 11,000 international publishers in scientific, medical, technical, and social science fields. Scopus claims to be the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. Scopus contains 47 million records, 70% with abstracts. Over 19,500 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide Includes over 4.9 million conference proceedings, 1,200 Open Access journals Scopus provides 100% Medline coverage 20+ million records back to 1996 with references 20+ million pre-1996 records go back as far as 1869 Results from 386 million scientific web pages 22 million patent records from 5 patent offices Seamless links to full-text articles and other library resources Innovative tools that review search results and refine to most relevant hits. Alerts to keep you up-to-date on new articles matching your search query, or by favorite author Scopus covers 250 million quality web sources, including 22 million patents. Searches in Scopus incorporate searches of scientific web pages through Scirus, and include author homepages, university sites and resources such as preprint servers and OAI compliant re- sources. Web of Science is updated with approximately 25,000 articles and 700,000 cited refer- ences added each week. Complete backfiles to 1945 however put total at ~37 million records. Covers 12,311+ journals from 256 categories, 110,000 proceedings from conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia worldwide Journal backfiles to 1900, cover-to-cover indexing, cited reference and chemical struc- ture searches Science – 7100 international journals and highly cited book series in 170 categories back to 1900 Social Sciences – 1,750 international journals and highly cited book series in 50 subject categories back to 1954 Arts & Humanities – 1,200 international journals and highly cited book series in 25 cate- gories back to 1975 Cited reference and chemical structure searches. Author identification tools. Direct links to your full-text collections. Analysis capabilities. WoS provides unique search methods and cited searching. Users can navigate forward and backward through the literature, and search all disciplines and time periods. Users can navigate to print and electronic collections using institutional linkresolvers. WoS is searchable with complete bibliographic data, cited reference data and navigation and links to full text.