September 8, 2009

Comparisons of Citations in Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar for Articles Published in General Medical Journals

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Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar produced quantitatively and qualitatively different citation counts for articles published in 3 general medical journals.

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Abhaya V. Kulkarni (Tue,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d8f04c2c39562886ae3487 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.1307

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