Dimensions: A competitor to Scopus and the Web of Science?

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Highlights：

• The scholarly database Dimensions has similar coverage of journal articles as Scopus.

• Citation counts from scholarly database Dimensions correlate highly with Scopus.

• The scholarly database Dimensions appears to be almost equivalent to Scopus for citation analysis.

摘要

•The scholarly database Dimensions has similar coverage of journal articles as Scopus.•Citation counts from scholarly database Dimensions correlate highly with Scopus.•The scholarly database Dimensions appears to be almost equivalent to Scopus for citation analysis.

论文关键词：Dimensions,Scopus,Web of Science,Citation analysis,Citation indexing

论文评审过程：Received 25 February 2018, Revised 11 March 2018, Accepted 20 March 2018, Available online 26 March 2018, Version of Record 26 March 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.03.006