I'm conducting a systematic literature review about people's pro-environmental behaviour. I'm using Scopus and Google Scholar as my academic databases for searching peer-reviewed articles. Wondering if the two databases are enough or I should add other databases as well? Interestingly, I noticed that most of the papers I found in Web of Science are already included in Scopus too but not vice versa. Any advice or comments appreciated.
I think the WoS is probably the best, since it integrates other indexes, and you might not find so many journals that are not indexed in Scopus (good or not so good) therein. However, that becomes the limitation of the methodology for gaining your systemitisation of your review.
Cheers.
Kourosh - those two databases (while sometimes regarded as broad brush databases) should suffice. If you can find a more 'discipline-specific database - that would be encouraged (and could replace one of the other databases - or added as a third). For instance, PubMed if you were investigating medical/health service issues.
Yes. The Web of Science in the first order. Then scopus and ebsco.
thanks all for the answers. Speaking from my personal experience about tourism and marketing discipline, I found that Scopus includes more journals compared with Web of Science. But I think I'd better do the search terms in all three databases. This strengthens systematisation of my review.
WoS --> Strongest coverage of natural sciences, health sciences, engineering, computer science, materials sciences.
thanks for the comment Andrijana Musura Gabor my discipline is marketing, tourism and sustainability
- Badges
- Science topic
- Similar topics
- Papers