| There are numerous articles comparing the big 3 cross-disciplinary databases, namely Web of Science,
Scopus and Google scholar. The article above is yet another one written on the same topic. It dutifully
covers old ground by explaining that ISI’s Web of Science is the oldest of the three, with the most depth
(it has the oldest archives) but the least breadth (because it indexes only the most prestigious journals).
Google scholar on the other end of the spectrum is the broadest of the three but mixes in results from
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