Scopus
Scopus is the largest bibliographic database containing abstracts and citations of peer reviewed journal articles. Traditionally, natural sciences, health sciences, and to some extent engineering, are better represented in Scopus than the social sciences and the humanities. The number of indexed journals and book series expands continuously, and it is possible to make suggestions for indexation of new content. Scopus covers from 1996 onwards.
If a publication in Pure is indexed in Scopus, it will automatically be assigned a Scopus publication ID that can be used in connection with analyses.
If you have many publications in Scopus, we recommend that you register your Scopus Author ID in your personal Pure profile.
SciVal
SciVal is a reporting tool used for analysis of data in Scopus. It is possible to make benchmark- and collaborative analyses in SciVal based on publication- and citation data in Scopus. In addition, it provides a good overview of the publications of both organizations and individuals. As SciVal is integrated with Pure, organizations and authors in Pure can be located in SciVal for further analysis. The VBN Team provides courses in the use of SciVal.
Web of Science
Web of Science is an interdisciplinary article- and citation database like Scopus. The database covers the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. Web of Science includes articles and conference papers from the 1960s and onwards, as well as references to older material.
If a publication in Pure is available in Web of Science, you may be granted a publication ID from Web of Science that can be used in connection with analyses. Twice a year, the VBN Team conducts manual searches in Web of Science and assign publication IDs.
We recommend that you create a Researcher ID, if you have many publications in Web of Science and includes it in your registrations in Pure.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a search engine that indexes scientific literature that is either available on the Internet free of charge, or that Google is permitted to crawl from the publishers’ databases. Google Scholar has a wider coverage of publication types, as well as research areas than traditional quotation databases Scopus and Web of Science. It is not clear how Google Scholar selects scientific literature or which databases they cover. Google Scholar does citation counts as well, but there is no documentation of coverage. According to a study by Jasco from 2010, one should be careful using Google Scholar citations as there are major errors in the processing of data. However, it is possible to process data from Google Scholar when using the Publish or Perish programme developed by Anne-Will Harzing.
There is no integration between Pure and Google Scholar, and therefore a large degree of uncertainty in connection with publication analysis in Google Scholar.
In order to analyse publications from Google Scholar, you need a Google Scholar Citations Profile. Afterwards, you can insert a link to your Google Scholar Citations Profile in your personal Pure profile.
