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Web
of
Science
vs.
Google
Scholar
Compare and Contrast
Jason Broughton
Marsha Hawkins
Kristin Snyder
Web of Science vs. Google Scholar Jason Broughton Brief description of both systems Database sizes and contents, dates and subject coverage Comparison of the search results Marsha Hawkins, Oral Presentation Coordinator Access points, search fields, controlled vocabulary Positives and negatives of Web of Science Discussion and reflection Kristin Snyder, Written Paper Coordinator Document types indexed, full-text available, geographic coverage, search limits and preferences Useful searching tips Positives and negatives of Google Scholar
Brief
Description
Jason Broughton
Web of Science
Produced and maintained by Thomson Reuters, a USA company.
• An online subscription-based citation indexing service and is currently considered by researchers as
one of the most well established citation resources (Norris & Oppenheim, 2001, p. 141).
• Used by academic institutions, commercial organizations, and the general public.
• Covers: full text articles, reviews, editorials, chronologies, abstracts, technical papers, and
proceedings in journals and book-based forms from worldwide conferences, colloquia, workshops and
conventions.
• Created the impact factor for reviewing citation frequencies. This factor is useful in evaluating,
ranking, categorizing and comparing journals (Balaban, 2012).
Google Scholar
• Google Scholar is produced and maintained by Google.
• Released in 2004 and indexes the full text of scholarly works in many formats and disciplines.
• “From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, non-
peer reviewed journals, abstracts, and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional
societies, online repositories, universities and other websites (Google, 2013).”
• Being a search engine, gives the impression that it is possible to search for everything in one place.
• Users can remain up-to-date on recent developments in any area of research, track citations, and
locate the complete document through a library or on the web.
• Advertising slogan is -“Stand on the shoulders of giants."
Database
Sizes
and
Contents
Jason Broughton
Areas recognized: Indexing coverage
Science, Social starts from the year
Science, Arts, 1900 up to the Does not automatically grant access
Humanities, Book present. to subscription-based sites
Citation, Conference Covers 12,000
Proceedings, and journals in all
subject areas. Does not provide an open list of sources that
Chemicus.
it uses in it’s criteria in making an
Over 54 million records across seven online identification of scholarly publications.
citation databases.
The largest citation database available to users. There is no defined portal or area to find a
title list or identification of journal titles
The seven citation databases are: within the online web search entity. This
Conference Proceedings Citation Index -
Science Citation Index Expanded may not mean there is not a list, but just
Social Sciences Citation Index one that the general public cannot review.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Index Chemicus
Book Citation Index
Current Chemical Reactions
Dates
and
Subject
Coverage
Jason
Broughton
Web of Science Google Scholar
(Google Scholar, n.d.)
(Web of Science Fact Sheet, n.d.)
Dates Covered
1900 to the present
Whatever is placed onto the
internet and the WWW
Subject Coverage
• Conference Proceedings Citation Index - 1990 to present, over • Legal documents
148,000 conference titles in the Sciences and Social Sciences
• Patents
• Science Citation Index Expanded – 1900 to present, over 85,000 • Articles
journals
• Social Sciences Citation Index – 1900 to present, over 3000 social
science journals
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index – 1975 to present, over 1700 arts
and humanities journals
• Index Chemicus – 1993 to present, over 2.6 million compounds
• Book Citation Index – 2005 to present, over 30,000 editorially
selected books.
• Current Chemical Reactions – 1986 to present, INPI archives from
1840 to 1985 and contains over 1 million reactions
Updated Frequency
Weekly
Not available for review
Rates Citation Index
Impact factor and h-index
h-index
Access
Points,
Search
Fields,
Controlled
Vocabulary
Marsha Hawkins
Web of Science
Research Area is
Advanced characterized by five general
Search topics and assists the user in
quickly identifying the subject
Field term in which he/she is seeking.
Searches
must use Topics include: Arts Humanities,
commands
Life Sciences Biomedicine,
under Field
Physical Sciences, Social
Tags Sciences, and Technology
Web of Science features
a limited controlled
vocabulary through Further explanation of index terms for the
limited index terms. Web of Science Category access point is
Searchers can also limit provided as the user clicks on the hyperlinked
searches by years, term from the advanced search and is guided to
language, and type of the category page. Scope notes provide further
material such as books, detail to the meaning and scope of each term.
articles, reviews, scripts,
poetry, etc.
Access
Points,
Search
Fields,
Controlled
Vocabulary
Marsha Hawkins
Users can search
for authors, titles,
Google Scholar
or part of titles and
keywords, names
of journals, and
dates are also
access points in
Google Scholar.
Instead of using Users are able to
Boolean search for terms
operators, using these fields
Google’s in two locations of
Advanced Search the articles: Title
uses natural or full text. Users
language in its can also search
search fields. by author, name
of journal, and/or
a date range
Search
Limits
and
Preferences
Kristin Snyder
Web of Science Google Scholar
• Web of Science Categories • document types
(more specific subjects such • publication dates
as sports sciences and • language
Search limits and nutrition dietetics • journal titles
preferences for
• document types • authors
both systems
• research areas • results per page
showed some • authors • library access links
similarities, with • group authors
Web of Science • editors
providing more
• source titles
options overall to
• book series titles
limit the search. • publication years
• organizations-enhanced
• funding agencies
• languages
• countries/territories
• language
• citation databases
Document
Types
Indexed,
Full-‐Text
Available,
&
Geographic
Coverage
Kristin Snyder
Web of Science Google Scholar
Document Type Articles & Reviews Articles
Full-Text Availability One full-text article; option to Abstracts freely available for
find full-text through academic most, full-text may require a
library subscription
Geographic Coverage Australia, Canada, England, None specified, Canada,
Finland, France, Germany, England, Germany, and Greece
Greece, Serbia, Spain, found within the first 20 search
Switzerland, Turkey results
Search
Results
Jason
Broughton
Search
Topic:
Dietary
supplements
for
elite
athletes
Limited
to
Journal
articles
and
reviews;
Publication
dates:
last
7
years
Web of Science Google Scholar
Search Strategy: 11 Results Search Strategy: 25 results
#7 AND #4 AND #2 Exact phrase: dietary supplements
Databases=SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI Timespan=2006-2013 At least one of the words: elite athletes
#2: (SU=sport sciences) AND Language=(English) AND In the title
Document Types=(Article) Years: 2006-2013
Databases=SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI Timespan=All years
#4: (TS="elite athlet*”) (TS="dietary supplement*")
Heikkinen, A. (2011). Dietary supplementation habits and Maughan, R. J., Depiesse, F., & Geyer, H. (2007). The use of
perceptions of supplement use among elite Finnish dietary supplements by athletes. Journal of Sports
athletes. International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Sciences, 25(S1), S103-S113.
Exercise Metabolism , 21 (4), 271-279.
Lazic, J., Dikic, N., Radivojevic, N., Mazic, S., Radovanovic, D.,
Lazic, J.S., Dikic, N., Radivojevic, N., Mazic, S., Radovanovic, N., Mitrovic, N., ... & Suzic, S. (2011). Dietary supplements
Lazic, M., Zivanic, S., & Suzie, S. (2011). Dietary and medications in elite sport–polypharmacy or real
Note same need?. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science
supplements and medications in elite sport - citation inSports, 21(2), 260-267.
polypharmacy or real need?. Scandinavian Journal of
Diehl, K., Thiel, A., Mayer, J., Schnell, A., & Schneider, S.
Medicine & Science in Sports, 21(2), 260-267.
(2012). Elite adolescent athletes' use of dietary
Dascombe, B.J., Karunaratna, M., Cartoon, J., Fergie, B., & supplements: characteristics, opinions, and sources of
Goodman, C. (2010). Nutritional supplementation habits supply and information. International Journal of Sport
and perceptions of elite athletes within a state-base Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, 22(3), 165-174.
sporting institute. Journal of Science and Medicine in
Sport, 13(2), 274-267.Search Tips
Kristin Snyder
Web of Science Google Scholar
Searchers can use 6,000 terms for a search. • Search results are sorted by relevance,
System assumes an AND between words, so if you not date. Users must select “sort by
want to search a concept with that is defined by date” in the left-hand side of the result
multiple terms, use quotation marks or the page.
Boolean operator NEAR/x (x being the number of Users can have new results emailed to
words in relation to each other) them occasionally.
Users can view search results date, times cited Not all of the results are provided in full
(highest to lowest, etc.), record views, relevance, text for free. There is a library link for
source title (A to Z), or conference title. access to your local library.
Capitalization does not matter in search field. Since Google Scholar does not utilize a
Case does not matter for Boolean operators. OR Thesaurus for controlled vocabulary,
and or are read the same. users may need to seek other terms
Proximity operators are NEAR/x (x being the elsewhere. (Google Scholar suggests
number of words). Wikipedia)
Can only use the Boolean operator, SAME in To discover more sources, Google
address field. Scholar suggests that users refer to the
If searching for an exact phrase, do not use $ as a “References” of the article for more
truncation within the quotes because the search suggestions for sources.
will not retrieve anything. To search an author, use initials, not full
Apostrophes are considered space, not letters. For first names since many articles do not
example, Marsha’s is read as Marshas. cite the full first name of an author.Positives
and
Negatives
of
Web
of
Science
Marsha
Hawkins
Positives of Web of Science
Users can easily see search history without signing in.
More access points than Google Scholar.
Boolean operators provide searchers the opportunity to combine concepts easily and
effectively.
Negatives of Web of Science
Features a limited controlled vocabulary. However, its limited index terms are useful in
identifying narrower subjects, which help to improve precision
Requires the user to scroll down the long list of subjects/terms in the few indices and
does not allow the searcher to click on the term and automatically insert it into the
search field.Positives
and
Negatives
of
Google
Scholar
Kristin
Snyder
Positives of Google Scholar
It’s free.
Simple interface and accessibility.
Negatives of Google Scholar
Without creating an account, there is no way to view search history or build upon a
previous search.
Returned searches include questionable sources since there is no human evaluation of
journals, just robots and algorithms.
Search boxes and access points are limited, making it difficult to search multiple
concepts at once.
The Search Tips suggests using other sources such as Wikipedia to identify other terms
that your subject might appear under.
Google Scholar should only be used as a complement to searching a subject-area
database (New South Wales Ministry of Health, 2012).Discussion
and
Reflection
Marsha
Hawkins
VS
Web of Science
Content is key. Know your source
(Thomson Reuters, n.d.)
Google Scholar
Organize the world’s information
and make it universally accessible
and useful (by using robots and
algorithms) (Google, n.d.).Discussion
and
Reflection
Marsha
Hawkins
Is Google really that bad? Let’s think about Google’s mission again.
Ranganathan’s Five Laws of Five Laws With Google’s Mission
Library Science Applied
1. Books are for use 1. Information is for use
2. Every reader his book 2. Every researcher his information
3. Every book its reader 3. Every information its user
4. Save the time of the reader 4. Save the time of the researcher
5. The library is a growing organism 5. Internet is a growing organism
Web of Science and Google Scholar
make a great couple.
Our recommendation is to use them in tandem for the most
thorough search.Q&A
Jason
Broughton
Marsha
Hawkins
Kristin
Snyder
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