Google Scholar, Scopus and the Web of Science: a longitudinal and cross-disciplinary comparison

2015/11/26 by Anne-Wil Harzing, Anne‐Wil Harzing, Satu Alakangas · 10 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Decision Sciences · #Bibliometrics #Big Data and Business Intelligence #Computer science #Cross disciplinary #Data science #Discipline #Index (typography) #Library science #MEDLINE #Political science #Scopus #Social science #Sociology #Web of science #World Wide Web #scientometrics and bibliometrics research

paper · doi:10.1007/s11192-015-1798-9

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