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most citedGoogle Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: a systematic comparison of citations in 252 subject categories

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cs.DL2018

Gender and Research Publishing in India: Uniformly high inequality?

Mike Thelwall, Carol Bailey, Meiko Makita +2

Women's access to academic careers has been historically limited by discrimination and cultural constraints. Comprehensive information about gender inequality within disciplines is…

cs.DL2018

Do females create higher impact research? Scopus citations and Mendeley readers for articles from five countries

Mike Thelwall

There are known gender imbalances in participation in scientific fields, from female dominance of nursing to male dominance of mathematics. It is not clear whether there is also a…

cs.DL2018

Can Microsoft Academic help to assess the citation impact of academic books?

Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall

Despite recent evidence that Microsoft Academic is an extensive source of citation counts for journal articles, it is not known if the same is true for academic books. This paper f…

cs.DL2018★ 2k cited

Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: a systematic comparison of citations in 252 subject categories

Alberto Martín-Martín, Enrique Orduna-Malea, Mike Thelwall +1

Despite citation counts from Google Scholar (GS), Web of Science (WoS), and Scopus being widely consulted by researchers and sometimes used in research evaluations, there is no rec…

cs.DL2018★ 31 cited

Which US and European Higher Education Institutions are visible in ResearchGate and what affects their RG Score?

Benedetto Lepori, Mike Thelwall, Bareerah Hafeez Hoorania

While ResearchGate has become the most popular academic social networking site in terms of regular users, not all institutions have joined and the scores it assigns to academics an…

cs.DL2018★ 283 cited

Dimensions: A Competitor to Scopus and the Web of Science?

Mike Thelwall

Dimensions is a partly free scholarly database launched by Digital Science in January 2018. Dimensions includes journal articles and citation counts, making it a potential new sour…