Web of science, scopus and google scholar a content comprehensiveness comparison

Electronic Library

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 727-744

  Adriaanse, Leslie S ^a   Rensleigh, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Citation resources; Comparing citation resources; Content comprehensiveness; Google scholar; Scopus; Web of science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886059554     PISSN: 02640473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EL-12-2011-0174     Document Type: Article

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