Which h-index? - A comparison of WoS, Scopus and Google Scholar

Judit Bar-Ilan

doi:10.1007/s11192-008-0216-y

Which h-index? - A comparison of WoS, Scopus and Google Scholar

Judit Bar-Ilan

Department of Information Science and Applied Artificial Intelligence

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This paper compares the h-indices of a list of highly-cited Israeli researchers based on citations counts retrieved from the Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar respectively. In several case the results obtained through Google Scholar are considerably different from the results based on the Web of Science and Scopus. Data cleansing is discussed extensively.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	257-271
Number of pages	15
Journal	Scientometrics
Volume	74
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-008-0216-y
State	Published - Feb 2008

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