Recommended Reading - Citation Analysis - LibGuides at Long Island University-Brooklyn

Comparisons

Aghaei Chadegani, A., Salehi, H., Md Yunus, M., Farhadi, H.,
Fooladi, M., Farhadi, M., & Ale Ebrahim, N. (2013). A comparison
between two main academic literature collections: Web of Science and
Scopus databases. Asian Social Science, 9(5), 18-26. http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ass/article/view/26960

Cusker, J. (2012). Using ISI Web of Science to compare
top-ranked journals to the citation habits of a "real world" academic
department. Issues In Science And Technology Librarianship, 70. http://www.istl.org/previous.html

Gray, E., & Hodkinson, S.Z. (2008, Summer). Comparison of
Journal Citation Reports and Scopus impact factors and environmental
sciences journals. Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, Issue 54, Article 1. http://www.istl.org/08-summer/article1.html
Kulkami, A.V., et al. (2009). Comparison of citation in Web
of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar for articles published in general
medical journals. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 302(10), 1092. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19738094
Meho, L.I., & Yang, K. (2007). Impact of data sources on
citation counts and rankings of LIS facutly: Web of Science versus
Scopus and Google Scholar. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(13), 2105-2125. http://sci2s.ugr.es/hindex/pdf/MehoYang2007.pdf
Podlubny, I., & Kassayova, I. (2006). Towards a better
list of citation superstars: compiling a multidisciplinary list of
highly cited researchers. Research Evaluation, 15(3), 154-169. http://rev.oxfordjournals.org/content/15/3/154.abstract
Ruscio, J., Seaman, F., D'Oriano, C., Stremlo, E., & Mahalchik,
K. (2012). Measuring scholarly impact using modern citation-based
indices. Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research And Perspectives, 10(3), 123-146. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15366367.2012.711147#.Uh9NR3_8Kvg

Van Noorden, R. (2010). Metrics: A profusion of measures. Nature, 465(7300), 864-866. http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100616/full/465864a.html
Van Aalst, J. (2010). Using Google Scholar to estimate the impact of journal articles in education. Educational Researcher, 39(5), 387-400. https://www.aera.net/uploadedFiles/Publications/Journals/Educational_Researcher/3905/387-400_07EDR10.pdf