Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World

• Published in: Publications (Basel) Vol. 9; no. 1; p. 12
• Main Author: Pranckutė, Raminta
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.03.2021
• Subjects: Bibliographic data bases; bibliographic databases; Bibliographic literature; Bibliometrics; Citation indexes; Collaboration; comparison; content coverage; evaluation; Learned societies; Librarians; Literary criticism; Metadata; Science; Scopus; WoS

Nowadays, the importance of bibliographic databases (DBs) has increased enormously, as they are the main providers of publication metadata and bibliometric indicators universally used both for research assessment practices and for performing daily tasks. Because the reliability of these tasks firstl...