Table 1

Comparison of features in Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar


Web of Science
Scopus
Google Scholar

Indexing and abstracting
Yes
Yes
No
Years covered-journals
1900 to present (Science) 1956-present (Social Science) 1975-present (Arts and Humanities)
1966 to present for some journals, but many date back to 1996 to present
Not revealed
Years covered-citations
1900 to present
1996 to present
Not revealed
Fee-based
Yes
Yes
No
Contents
9300 journals (Science, Social Science and Arts and Humanities)
15,000 journals (Science and Social Science)
Not revealed

Bakkalbasi et al. Biomedical Digital Libraries 2006 3:7   doi:10.1186/1742-5581-3-7

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