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This document summarizes two citation databases: Scopus and Web of Science. Scopus covers publications from 1969 onward across various subject areas. It contains over 22,000 peer-reviewed journals. Web of Science covers publications from 1900 onward in sciences, social sciences, and humanities, containing over 20,000 peer-reviewed journals. Both databases can be used to find citations and track the development of literature on a topic over time.

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Citation Databases - Library

This document summarizes two citation databases: Scopus and Web of Science. Scopus covers publications from 1969 onward across various subject areas. It contains over 22,000 peer-reviewed journals. Web of Science covers publications from 1900 onward in sciences, social sciences, and humanities, containing over 20,000 peer-reviewed journals. Both databases can be used to find citations and track the development of literature on a topic over time.

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Citation databases - Library https://library.csu.edu.

au/search-borrow/find-books-resources/citation-databases

Library

Citation databases
Citation databases can be used for cited reference searches, enabling you to find, check and track
citation data year-by-year, navigating forward and backward through the literature related to a topic.

Purpose
You can use a citation database to:

• distinguish between authors with the same name, or an author's name that has been presented in different ways
• analyse search results to show the number of documents broken down by various criteria, including year, author, source, affiliation, or
subject categories
• search within results by adding additional terms to the initial search
• identify highly cited works related to a particular topic
• find related works that share references or authors
• create search alerts to keep up to date with developments in your discipline
• set up citation alerts to notify you when a document or author is cited elsewhere
• set up alerts to notify you about new documents by an author
• generate a profile that presents an analysis and citation summary of works published by an institution or author(s), including h-index
• compare the performance of journals in a particular subject area.

Search a database
The Scopus and Web of Science databases share a number of similar features, but differ in the sources cited and coverage. Both databases
focus on English language publications.

Scopus

Coverage
The Scopus database (http://ezproxy.csu.edu.au/login?url=http://www.scopus.com) contains records from 1969 including science,
mathematics, engineering, technology, health and medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities.

• 22,800 peer reviewed journals, including 3,800 open access titles.


• 280 trade publications.
• Articles in press [accepted for publication] from more than 8,000 publishers.
• 150,000 books from Science, Technology & Medicine (2005-present ) and Arts & Humanities (2003-present).
• 8 million conference papers from 100,000 conferences.
• 39 million patents.

Guides
• Scopus Quick Reference Guide [PDF 6.2 MB] (http://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/79196/scopus-quick-reference-
guide.pdf)
• Scopus Learn & Support (http://help.elsevier.com/app/answers/list/p/8150)
• Content Coverage Guide (https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/how-scopus-works/content)

Web of Science (WoS)

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The WoS database (http://ezproxy.csu.edu.au/login?url=http://webofknowledge.com/wos) contains records from 1900 including sciences,
social sciences, arts and humanities.

• 20,300 peer reviewed journals.


• 94,000 scholarly books (2005-present).
• 10 million conference papers.
• coverage in some fields is less complete than in others, and there is an apparent focus in the sciences.

Guides
• WoS Quick Reference Card (http://wokinfo.com/media/pdf/qrc/wos-corecoll_qrc_en.pdf)
• WoS Online Help (http://ezproxy.csu.edu.au/login?url=http://images.webofknowledge.com/WOKRS518B4/help/WOK/contents.html)
• Video guides (http://wokinfo.com/training_support/training/web-of-science)
• Summary of Coverage (https://clarivate.libguides.com/librarianresources/coverage)

Training
Library training for academic staff and HDR candidates (https://library.csu.edu.au/for-researchers/plan-design).

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