Comparison of Main Scholarly Databases


Key:
✅: Complete Coverage     ✔: Partial Coverage     ❌: No Coverage
Feature ScholarGPS™ Google Scholar Scopus Web of Science Dimensions Semantic Scholar
Scholar Profiles
Universal
All Scholars Living, Retired, Deceased
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Affiliation History
Current And Prior Affiliations with time history
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Field, Discipline And Specialty Designations
Field, Discipline And Specialties Practiced By Scholar
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Co-authors
Co-author listings
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Archival Publications Only
Profiles contain only archival publications
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Filtering
Filter publications by type, technical area, year, affiliation, co-authors, country and order by year or citations
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Institutional Profiles
Academic + Non-Academic
All research institutions, including academic, governmental and industrial
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Publications and Citation History
Publication and citation counts up to current year
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Field, Discipline and Specialty Performance
Scholars/ Publications By Fields And Top Disciplines
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Scholar Performance By Field, Discipline And Specialty
Ranking Order of Scholars By Field, Discipline, Or Specialty
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Field and Discipline Profiles
Hierarchical Decomposition
Division of 14 Fields into 177 Disciplines reflecting standard academic practice
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Publication and Citation History
Publication and Citation history for each Field and Discipline
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Scholar,Publication and Institutional Rankings
Highly ranked scholars, highly cited publications and institutional ranks by Field and Discipline
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Specialty Profiles
Comprehensive Listing
Over 350,000 (and growing) identified Specialties
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Publication and Citation History
Publication and Citation History for each Specialty
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Scholar, Publication and Institutional Rankings
Highly ranked scholars, highly cited publications and institutional rankings in all non-micro Specialties
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Scholar Rankings
Overall (All Fields)
Rankings By: All Fields
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Hierarchical
Rankings By: Field, Discipline, And All Specialties The Scholar Is Involved in
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Purely Quantitative
Ranking metrics: Productivity, Impact and Quality and Composite Metric, applied to all levels of the scholarly hierarchy (Overall (All Fields), Field, Discipline and Specialties)
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Interval Rankings
Rank scholars by lifetime achievement or achievement in prior 5 years
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Institutional Rankings
Comprehensive
Rankings cover academic, governmental, not-for-profit and industrial research entities
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Purely Quantitative
Innovative ranking methodologies for Overall (All Fields), Field, Discipline and Specialty rankings for institutions
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Interval Rankings
Rank by lifetime (all affiliated scholars over all time) or prior 5 years
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Highly Ranked Scholars™
Unique Methodology
Highly ranked scholars (those in the top 0.05%) based on their Productivity, Impact and Quality Composite Ranking
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Hierarchical
Highly ranked scholars by Overall (All Fields), Field, Discipline and Specialty
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Interval Rankings
Rankings by Lifetime or prior 5 years
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Highly Cited Publications
Hierarchical
Highly-cited publications by Overall (All Fields), Field, Discipline and Specialties
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Top Experts
Quantitative
Experts in the top 0.1% of scholars in terms of their lifetime composite ranking
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Searchable
Filter by Field, Discipline, Specialty or by Country
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Publications and Citation Index
Encyclopedic Listing
Over 150 Million (and growing) publications including journal articles, conference papers, books, book chapters and patents
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Quality
Only archival publications
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Cross-citation indexing
Links to all papers citing any given paper
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