The main purpose of the research is not a journal of high impact factor or an international scientific conference. The research evaluates what is done again and solves an intractable problem.
What is the better choice between SCOPUS and ISI indexed journals? What serves you best? Scopus indexed journals or ISI indexed ones? The answer to this question is my answer to the main question of the discussion thread.
The best thing is to publish in a journal that covers your area of research, and preferably is published by a quality publisher. i think that Scopus indexes more journals than ISI.
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.
Agree with both Solaiman and Alkhalifawi that Scopus provides a higher citation count than ISI, both in the Sciences and in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Furthermore, it is your area of expertise that matters more and accordingly the selection of a journal for publication of your work.
From my point of View is that Publishing in Scopus is Good compared to ISI Journals. But few ISI Journals are very good compared to certain Scopus indexed Journals.
Scopus and ISI are two bibliographs operated by different organizations Elsevier and Clarivate Analytics. Many journals are featured in both databases. there is no major difference. Scopus has a vast network of journal, other side “ISI journals” are also “Scopus journals” but in my opinion ISI has a more easily approach to including journals. The two systems have slightly different criteria and slightly different functionality, but given that most ISI journals are also part of Scopus journals, there is no major difference between journals except label.
SCOPUS database has more journals than ISI, but ISI's criteria for accepting journals are stricter than SCOPUS'. This is why SCOPUS contains some predatory journals.
the Web of Science Database (WOS). WOS was originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and is currently maintained by Clarivate Analytics.
WOS has two types of journals: one with Impact Factor (JCR Journals) and the other without Impact Factor (ISI Listed Journals).
Scientifically, to compare two things, you should list the criteria against which you can make the right decision, which one is better.
In my point of view, WoS index is more reliable and has a high-ranking qualifications. However, the WoS Index has some drawbacks such as publishing time and publishing fees in terms of open access.
By all cases WoS journals are better than Scopus journals
Your right.....research is not only for publishing in high impacted journals....But to showcase to the scientific community in best way....we require good journals or conferences........
You cannot say that SCOPUS indexed journals (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4) are better than ISI indexed journals or vise versa. It depends on the journal itself and on what serves you best. You have to consider also the criteria of the world university rankings, such as, QS.
The success is to have the papers published in both: SCOPUS and ISI.
From bath you are receiving high scientific visibility. Your research work is equally visible with publications from SCOPUS and ISI.
Here a strong point for the young researchers is what your University/the Ministry of science from your country is recognising for your academic promotion. If both are equally treated, than for you SCOPUS and ISI are equal. In my country/region (Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia…) ISI is the one that is calculated for the scientific / academic promotion.
My strategy is, when submitting the papers for publication, to check the status of the journal.
The ideal solution (win-win) is to submit the paper to the journal that belongs to both: SCOPUS and ISI.
I am checking the status of the journals using the following links:
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.
Exactly, ISI is more trusted while Scopus provides broader database. There is more to just labelling, Scopus or ISI, and this includes Indexing database status and name.
Scopus is more acceptable due to the potential citation advantages. Additionally most of the journals in ISI are on Scopus. I think the focus should be on creating high quality paper and publishing it in indexed journals without being restricted to any specific type of journals.
In more countries, the SCOPUS indexing of publication is government support requirements to scientists (Russia, Ukraine etc.). I think that it is corruption elements. In any case, Google Scholar is a better indicator of science activities.
I do second Sir Afaque . I would suggest you to better ask any of your Mentors , may be your supervisor and see what he/she says . Main thing that matters is your Supervisors consent . To me , ISI comes first and Scopus comes second .
There is no compare between SCOPUS and ISI indexed journals, for sure ISI much better than Scopus. From the content aspect, Scopus has 28 million records, against almost 37 million in ISI. Scopus includes 15.000 journal titles, and ISI includes 9000 journal titles. Actually, there is a large overlap between Scopus and ISI, many journals listed as ISI and the same time as Scopus, because the ISI cover 7 points from Thomson Reuters but Scopus cover just 5 points. so you will find many journals have two indexes. Web of Science (WOS) was the only international and multidisciplinary database until 2004. Elsevier introduced Scopus in 2004 as a good replacement for WOS. As a conclusion, there are no definite criteria for ranking these two indexing bodies. Both have some advantages over the other. ISI, due to its much longer history and being the only information provider, is still more popular worldwide. Hopefully, I did answer your question.
I assume this varies according to your research area and the region you are doing research. The Professors see this thing in different ways and the respective supervisor can suggest to you which and what type of publications he or she prefers.