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100 Most Cited Articles In Urban Green And Open Spaces: A Bibliometric Analysis, M. Rakhshandehroo, M.J.M. Yusof, N. Ale Ebrahim, A. Sharghi, R. Arabi Jan 2015

100 Most Cited Articles In Urban Green And Open Spaces: A Bibliometric Analysis, M. Rakhshandehroo, M.J.M. Yusof, N. Ale Ebrahim, A. Sharghi, R. Arabi

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

Researchers have contributed significantly to the development of the subject of urban green and open spaces (UGOS) in both practical and fundamental aspects. As the number of citations indicates a paper and author's competency, the online web of science (ISI) was browsed to identify the 100 most cited papers in the field of UGOS from 1980 to 2013. Papers were analyzed for authorship, journal sources, publishers, institutions, countries, year of publication, categories, and author keywords. The total number of citations was compared to the average number of citations per year. From 1105 UGOS papers returned, the maximum number of citations …


A Comparison Between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web Of Science And Scopus Databases, A. Aghaei Chadegani, H. Salehi, M.M. Yunus, H. Farhadi, M. Fooladi, M. Farhadi, N. Ale Ebrahim Apr 2013

A Comparison Between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web Of Science And Scopus Databases, A. Aghaei Chadegani, H. Salehi, M.M. Yunus, H. Farhadi, M. Fooladi, M. Farhadi, N. Ale Ebrahim

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

Nowadays, the world's scientific community has been publishing an enormous number of papers in different scientific fields. In such environment, it is essential to know which databases are equally efficient and objective for literature searches. It seems that two most extensive databases are Web of Science and Scopus. Besides searching the literature, these two databases used to rank journals in terms of their productivity and the total citations received to indicate the journals impact, prestige or influence. This article attempts to provide a comprehensive comparison of these databases to answer frequent questions which researchers ask, such as: How Web of …