Coverage and quality: A comparison of Web of Science and Scopus databases for reporting faculty nursing publication metrics

Nursing Outlook

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 572-578

  Powell, Kimberly R ^a   Peterson, Shenita R ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Citation analysis; h index; Impact factor; Journal quality; Nursing scholarship; Scholarly communications; Scopus; SJR; Web of Science

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOMETRICS; CITATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MEDLINE; NURSING; PEER REVIEW; PUBLICATION; SCOPUS; UNIVERSITY; WEB OF SCIENCE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; NURSING RESEARCH; PUBLISHING; STANDARDS;

BIBLIOMETRICS; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; NURSING RESEARCH; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING;

EID: 85016427589     PISSN: 00296554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.outlook.2017.03.004     Document Type: Article

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