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Comparison of Web of Science and Scopus Impact Factors of Indian Journals

Aragudige Nagaraja, M. Vasanthakumar

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Database coverage of Indian journals in Web of Science and Scopus were identified. Impact factor from Journal Citation Reports 2008. SCImago journal rank indicator of Indian journals was tabulated and compared. It was found that Scopus covers more impact factor-tracked Indian journals, while Web of Science covers 45 Indian journals with impact factor.

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Key concepts: Scopus, Impact factor, Web of science, Citation, Bibliometrics, Citation impact, Library science, World Wide Web