Scopus vs WOS as scientific evaluation tools:A comparative analysis based on a testing sample search on the topic of electric vehicles

作     者：WANG Na PAN Yuntao MA Zheng WU Yishan 

作者机构：Institute of Scientific & Technical Information of China 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Library and Information Science》 (中国文献情报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2010年第3卷第1期

页      面：20-34页

学科分类：1205[管理学-图书情报与档案管理] 12[管理学] 120502[管理学-情报学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.70973118) 

主　　题：WOS Scopus Comparative study Electric vehicles 

摘      要：Based on a bibliometric analysis in combination with other information analysis methods, this paper compares the different evaluation results on the subject of electric vehicles drawn from Web of Science(WOS) and from Scopus. We came to the following conclusions after a careful comparison of these two databases. Firstly, both WOS and Scopus would provide some valid and unique evaluation indicators. Secondly, they showed similar results in terms of evaluating research performance of countries and research organizations involved in the targeted subject fields. In fact, both databases are good for discovering the research trend in general at the macroscopic level. Lastly, we ought to take the disciplinary characteristics, the extent of journal inclusion and resource selection criteria as well as inevitable data errors into full account in making recommendations to policy decision-makers.