Given that each has its own measurements, I personally prefer Scopus.

Dear @Yashwant Singh Rawal The two are separate data bases. The indexing agency of Scopus is a well known group publishing a number of well known journals. However, the Clarivate Analytics, which is an indexing agency for WOS, is concerned with assessment of journals in terms of impact factor; this is used as a measure of quality of journals throughout the world. There are journals which are listed in Scopus, but not in WOS. NAAS recognizes Clarivate assessed impact factor, but not Scopus

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I fully agree with Dr. Arbind K. Choudhary

I think WoS has more weightage than Scopus.

Not necessarily posting in Scopas

Both are good, indeed.

Article COMPARISON BETWEEN SCOPUS & ISI WEB OF SCIENCE

I agree with Dr. Arbind K. Choudhary

I think if you want quality research & bright future you have to choose Q1,Q2 and IEEE international conferences. Good luck

Dear Yashwant Singh Rawal WOS indexed journals with impact factors are much better than Scopus indexed ones. Moreover, Scopus database is not a 100% trustable because there are some predatory listed ( Beall's list) journals in this database.

both are equal

Both good

Dear Dr.Yashwant Singh Rawal

I agree with Dr. Arbind K. Choudhary.

Both are equal

I am agreed prof fady

Both are equally weighted

Scopus was originated in Netherland and introduced in UK while Web of Science or previously named as ISI was originated in the U.S. Both of them are the best database in the world at the moment.

Web of Science has several products that reflect its level, starting from the easiest one to the most difficult one, respectively ESCI, AHCI/SSCI (depends on the subject), SCIE. Meanwhile, Scopus now uses cite score instead of Scimago journal ranking (Q1-Q4) so you need to see the cite score of journal in Scopus before you submit your article. A journal may be indexed in multiple databases, it can also be indexed in both Scopus and Web of Science. So, in my point of view which you should choose depends on your level and time you have for the publication itself. the lowest level will need about 3 months.

Both are equal 🖒🌷

Dear Diana, apart from each rate of value, the education ministry has decided only Scopus indexed-article that would be considered to meet the requirement for a promotion.

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Mhd. Syahnan

Scopus and Web of Science both are Equally weightage. I think the impact factor of WoS journals is more than indexed in Scopus.

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In algeria, research published in web of science has more value compared with scopus...

Dear Yashwant Singh Rawal

I think both are not equal. In Egypt, the Web of Science is more valuable than Scopus. Check this list for more information

Data 2020 - Journal Impact Factor & Quartile

thank you prof.Ibrahim naand prof Derdar

Both are equal in my country (Ukraine)

I think web of science is more trusted

Web of science became more important, compared to Scopus, regarding publication weightage and for promotions in Egypt 🇪🇬

I agree with Raed.

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Dear Yashwant Singh Rawal ,

Your statement that most universities prefer Scopus needs some nuance. In the following paper:

Preprint Prevalence of Potentially Predatory Publishing in Scopus on ...

One can find an interesting figure (Fig. 2) that roughly shows the preferences when it comes to Scopus or WoS (Clarivate).

Personally, I find journals indexed in SCIE (with an impact factor assigned by Clarivate) more trustworthy than an index in Scopus. The first couple of years of Scopus indexing leads after thorough evaluation quite frequently to discontinuation of a title in Scopus.

Clarivate has a separate index (ESCI) for journals potentially eligible for final indexing (in SCIE or SSCI) which makes their database more reliable.

Best regards.

I think WOS is more unbiased than Scopus.

As mentioned by Dr. Rob Keller , Scopus is unlikely from having equal weightage to Wos as it contains hundreds of predatory journals.

Posted in scopus

This database is the second in the world after ISI, so publishing in it indicates the high scientific level and secures for him the best opportunities in international universities to pursue studies in higher departments or obtain a teaching job at a prestigious international university or rise in the scientific rank if the researcher is a university professor .

Dear Antethar Jabar ,

One little correction, the Scopus database is larger than WoS (Clarivate):

https://unisouthamptonlibrary.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/scopus-vs-web-of-science/

Scopus has over 24000 active titles (and 225.000 books that are not covered in Clarivate databases): https://blog.scopus.com/posts/scopus-roadmap-whats-coming-up-in-2020-2021

While 11.877 journals are covered in the JCR of Clarivate and over 7800 titles in ESCI:

https://clarivate.com/article/announcing-the-2019-journal-citation-reports/

https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/solutions/webofscience-esci/

Best regards.

Dear Yashwant Singh Rawal

Check this file

Data 2020 - Journal Impact Factor & Quartile

There is difference between them.

In the US, a paper needs to be listed on Pubmed/Medline for promotion in many academic institutions

Not et al in India most of the universities preferring NAAS rating

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In Spain the official institutions give us better marks for the WoS journals (JCR) than for the scopus journals

WOS journals have more weightage

Because it became fashion

Both sources can contain low-quality publications. One great solution to that is PubPeer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubPeer

You will find interesting comments there about both Scopus and WoC publications.

both are different Indexing... can't say which is more weightage... depends on the Impact factor and SJR value.

May be

The Web of Science Core Collection is probably the single most authoritative source. Scopus is a very useful alternative for measuring the citation impact of articles, journals and authors. Scopus has a larger dataset, so more articles, journals and

I agree with the answer of Dr@Arbind K. Choudhary. Also, WOS journals considered to have high weightage.

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Yashwant Singh Rawal

Dear Professor,

Thank you for the excellent topic of discussion. I come from the world of Marketing Management and HR. So, I believe that popularity and advertising contributes towards building the sale-ability of anything.

I have seen that even people who are not from the world of research, have heard of Scopus. The branding of Scopus is that strong. On the contrary, when it comes to Web of Science publications, most people have not even heard of them. So, this is the reason perhaps that most universities prefer to have their publication in Scopus. I have linked this matter to Marketing. I see a lot of universities following these marketing trends. Probably, quality really does not matter that much, which is not the ideal scene.

I think, our senior colleague from the research fraternity, Arbind K. Choudhary has written a fantastic explanation. Special thanks to him for that.

Best regards,

Anamitra.

Scopus is preferred for its well-known journals with high impact factors and quality of research.

I agree with the answer of [email protected],he gave full explanation for the difference.

WoS is now more accepted throughout world because of it tough standards.

Scopus and scientific publications weigh the same. The advantage of publishing in Scopus is that our scientific work is evaluated in this database and allows others to use it.

Given that each has its own measurements, I personally prefer Scopus.

Agreed with Dear Arbind K. Choudhary 

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The Web of Science Core Collection is probably the single most authoritative source. Scopus is a very useful alternative for measuring the citation impact of articles, journals and authors. Scopus has a larger dataset, so more articles, journals and conference papers will have metrics. https://unisouthamptonlibrary.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/scopus-vs-web-of-science/

Web of Science citation data is considered more accurate and reproducible and is used by official organizations as the standard. Google Scholar citations include books, theses, other reports, but may not include a lot of older citations because of lack of tagging of older files https://libguides.lib.msu.edu/pubmedvsgooglescholar

Web of Science is an online subscription based scientific citation indexing service originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). ... Scopus is an interdisciplinary bibliographic online database launched in 2004 containing abstracts and citation database as a competitor to Web of Science. https://www.researchgate.net/post/What-is-the-difference-between-Scopus-WoS

In general, Scopus provides a higher citation count than ISI, both in the Sciences and in the Social Sciences and Humanities. ... Scopus appears to have a much broader journal coverage for the Social Sciences and Humanities than ISI and hence provides a fairer comparison. https://harzing.com/popbook/ch16_2_1.htm

Both are important and interlinked. It is the preference and criteria of the universities.

Both have equal weightage. I do not find any difference between them. They also do not know the importance, those who are recommending to publish in Scopus indexed journals. It's just a business strategy.

Both are important . Publishing in these journals give your paper more chance to be recognized

Both are important.

Both are important to publish under the SCOPUS and WEB OF SCIENCE but its depends on the ceriteria of institute.

Both are very important and would help to present better chances of gaining desired recognition to your research.

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No, the only Web of Science indexed journals that have SCI, SCIE, SSCI, AHCI, and ESCI are considered valuable as compared to the Scopus.

Neither matters in the least!

Both are good databases but WOS weighs more.

Scopus covers mostly reputable journals while web of science covers both emerging sources and reputable journals.