• Nursing outlook · Nov 2012

    Comparative Study

    Coverage of Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science: a case study of the h-index in nursing.

    • Sandra L De Groote and Rebecca Raszewski.
    • University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA. sgroote@uic.edu
    • Nurs Outlook. 2012 Nov 1;60(6):391-400.

    PurposeThis study compares the articles cited in CINAHL, Scopus, Web of Science (WOS), and Google Scholar and the h-index ratings provided by Scopus, WOS, and Google Scholar.MethodsThe publications of 30 College of Nursing faculty at a large urban university were examined. Searches by author name were executed in Scopus, WOS, and POP (Publish or Perish, which searches Google Scholar), and the h-index for each author from each database was recorded. In addition, the citing articles of their published articles were imported into a bibliographic management program. This data was used to determine an aggregated h-index for each author.ResultsScopus, WOS, and Google Scholar provided different h-index ratings for authors and each database found unique and duplicate citing references.ConclusionsMore than one tool should be used to calculate the h-index for nursing faculty because one tool alone cannot be relied on to provide a thorough assessment of a researcher's impact. If researchers are interested in a comprehensive h-index, they should aggregate the citing references located by WOS and Scopus. Because h-index rankings differ among databases, comparisons between researchers should be done only within a specified database.Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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