South America's research impact is underestimated in the main citation databases, as you suggest (Nature 510, 202–203; 2014). However, incorporating the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) ...

The company that compiles highly influential databases on the use of scholarly papers in print has decided to gather similar information on scholarly works that are disseminated solely online, often ...

Online scientific databases are increasingly accessed to evaluate academic productivity. 1 However, major discrepancies among databases 2 can affect the recognition and professional advancement of ...

With the vast majority of scientific papers now available online, Lokman I Meho describes how the Web is allowing physicists and information providers to measure more accurately the impact of these ...

OpenURL link resolvers have become a vital part of many libraries’ offerings, especially those of academic libraries. As resolvers have become more important, they have undergone the same iterative ...

Databases such as Thomson Reuters' ISI Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar and Microsoft's Academic Search allow authors to compute their own citation statistics, but they yield inconsistent ...