Multidisciplinary bibliographic databases.
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...The choice of a bibliographic database for recording the h-index depends on the indexing status of journals in a given discipline, peculiarities of research environments and regional priorities, with Scopus viewed as the most comprehensive platform for authors from Europe and non-Anglophone countries (36)....
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...Keywords Web of Science Scopus DBLP INSPEC Google Scholar...
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...Other studies also found that GS required extra analyses of the retrieved citing sources, to single out the irrelevant and non-scholarly materials (Gasparyan et al. 2013)....
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...The research question was: is there a need of using multiple databases for searching computer science articles?...
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...Over the past few years GS has significantly expanded its indexing of full texts of scholarly literature through agreements with publishers (like Elsevier), online libraries and repositories (Gasparyan et al. 2013)....
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"Multidisciplinary bibliographic dat..." refers background in this paper
...A study comparing Google Scholar with PubMed and Cochrane Library searches for coverage of the literature for top systematic reviews in medicine proved that searches through Google Scholar alone are sufficient for retrieving all the necessary sources (16)....
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"Multidisciplinary bibliographic dat..." refers methods in this paper
...Despite its comprehensiveness, searches through Google Scholar may retrieve irrelevant and non-scholarly materials, making it mandatory to critically analyse each retrieved source and to perform additional searches through WoS, Scopus, or specialised databases (19)....
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...However, more extensive coverage does not necessarily mean more quality items, and this is why it is recommended that EMBASE is complemented by MEDLINE and/or other evidence-based databases (26)....
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...Several studies have found that EMBASE covers controlled clinical trials more comprehensively than MEDLINE....
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...Prime examples are Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and EMtree collections of keywords utilised by Medical Literature Analysis and Retrie- val System Online (MEDLINE; US National Library of Medicine) and EMBASE (Elsevier), respectively....
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...As a good example, in a landmark study on bibliographic performance of rheumatology in MEDLINE, EMBASE, and BIOSIS, 45% of papers on hot topics in the field were found in non-rheumatology journals and each of these databases was capable of retrieving no more than 50% of the relevant citations (28)....
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...EMBASE is the largest subscription-based biomedical and pharmacological abstracts database....
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"Multidisciplinary bibliographic dat..." refers methods in this paper
...The Web of Knowledge platform aggregates information from another highly prestigious product of Thomson Reuters, namely Current Contents Connect® (CCC)....
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...Citations in WoS are also used for the calculation of the h index of individual researchers and are displayed at the ResearcherID authoridentifying platform of Thomson Reuters (from 2008)....
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...The results of the citation analyses through SCI-E, SSCI and AHCI are published annually in the Journal Citation Reports® (JCR), a product of Thomson Reuters, which includes the highly popular Journal Impact Factor (JIF) and other indices used for journal rankings in specific subject categories....
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...The Web of Science® (WoS) is the oldest subscription-based citation index for more than 250 disciplines, and it is provided by Thomson Reuters (formerly the Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia, USA)....
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...The SCImago laboratory in Spain relies on citations in Scopus for regularly calculating open-access metrics such as the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and average citations per paper over a 2-yr period (Cites per Doc 2y), which are widely viewed as alternatives to the Eigenfactor score and JIF computed by Thomson Reuters (13)....
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"Multidisciplinary bibliographic dat..." refers background in this paper
...However, more extensive coverage does not necessarily mean more quality items, and this is why it is recommended that EMBASE is complemented by MEDLINE and/or other evidence-based databases (26)....
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