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Google Scholar, Scopus and the Web of Science: a longitudinal and cross-disciplinary comparison

Overview of attention for article published in Scientometrics, November 2015
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
2 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
policy
6 policy sources
twitter
22 X users
facebook
3 Facebook pages
wikipedia
4 Wikipedia pages
reddit
1 Redditor

Readers on

mendeley
1952 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Google Scholar, Scopus and the Web of Science: a longitudinal and cross-disciplinary comparison
Published in
Scientometrics, November 2015
DOI 10.1007/s11192-015-1798-9
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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 1,952 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Spain 7 <1%
United Kingdom 7 <1%
Netherlands 5 <1%
Brazil 4 <1%
United States 4 <1%
Russia 3 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Portugal 2 <1%
Indonesia 2 <1%
Other 15 <1%
Unknown 1901 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 234 12%
Student > Master 186 10%
Researcher 149 8%
Librarian 135 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 99 5%
Other 441 23%
Unknown 708 36%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 250 13%
Business, Management and Accounting 230 12%
Computer Science 149 8%
Engineering 110 6%
Arts and Humanities 80 4%
Other 376 19%
Unknown 757 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 72. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 July 2026.
All research outputs
#732,398
of 33,059,767 outputs
Outputs from Scientometrics
#66
of 3,522 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,568
of 431,006 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientometrics
#1
of 36 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,059,767 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,522 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 431,006 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 36 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its contemporaries.