Comparing bibliometric country-by-country rankings derived from the Web of Science and Scopus: The effect of poorly cited journals in oncology

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 244-256

  López Illescas, Carmen ^a   De Moya Anegón, Félix ^b   Moed, Henk F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Citation analysis; Journal impact factor; Oncology; Scopus; Web of Science

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TUMORS;

CITATION ANALYSIS; CITATION IMPACTS; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SCOPUS; SHORT-TERM EFFECTS; WEB OF SCIENCE;

ONCOLOGY;

EID: 62449196516     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551508098603     Document Type: Article

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