Which is better Scopus or PubMed?

PubMed for medicine and allied health sciences while scopus is for all fields. PubMed serves as a database as well as a publisher while Scopus is singly a database.
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Is Scopus better than PubMed?

Scopus includes the records from the MEDLINE and EMBASE databases, among other included sources. As such, Scopus has more than double the number of records in PubMed, with 54M+ records in Scopus compared to PubMed's 24M+ records.
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Is PubMed indexed in Scopus?

PubMed and Medline (Ovid) content is a subset of Scopus. PubMed indexes around 6000 journals, Scopus indexes around an additional 17,000 (total around 24,000) journals including most, but not all, of the content of the Embase database.
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What is better than Scopus?

However, in virtually all cases Google Scholar provide the highest citation count, reflecting its broader coverage in terms of sources compared to both ISI and Scopus and its longer coverage in time compared to Scopus."
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Is Scopus a good journal?

Yes of course. Because Scopus database indexed only peer reviewed and reputable journals. High impact research journals are indexed on the database. This makes it acceptable by all researchers globally.
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Why should I use Scopus?

Scopus helps: Combat predatory publishing and protect the integrity of the scholarly record. Make the research workflow more efficient and effective. Empower institutions to bolster performance, rank, and reputation.
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Is PubMed indexing good?

As with most good indices, getting indexed in PubMed leads to an increase in the reach and exposure of your journal. This not only increases the traffic to your journal's website and articles, but is also a precipitating factor for an eventual increase in citations and impact factor.
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Is Scopus better than Google Scholar?

The results by broad areas showed that Google Scholar was able to find most of the citations to Social Sciences articles (94%), while Web of Science and Scopus found 35% and 43%, respectively.
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What is the best journal indexing?

Here are some of the most reputed journal indexing agencies where you can check the indexing and apply for it.
  • Google Scholar.
  • Scopus.
  • PubMed.
  • EBSCO.
  • IJIFACTOR.
  • EMBASE.
  • DOAJ.
  • ISI Indexing.
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Is Scopus better or SCI?

Elsevier's Scopus-indexed journals are slightly weaker than SCI-indexed journals in terms of quality and relevance. The reason being SCI indexing database upholds the greater value of the journals when it comes to authenticity, quality, novelty, and relevance to the academe.
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Why is PubMed the best?

Of the three, PubMed has the most "bells and whistles" to help you get good search results. Examples: microRNA [Majr] as a search means you can search for articles where microRNAs are the major topic of the article. A search for "mouse" automatically includes the word "mice".
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Is PubMed a good journal?

PubMed delivers a publicly available search interface for MEDLINE as well as other NLM resources, making it the premier source for biomedical literature and one of the most widely accessible resources in the world.
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What are the advantages of using PubMed?

Pros and Cons: Advantages of using PubMed:
  • It is a huge, reliable, and highly authoritative resource.
  • It is specific to medicine and health.
  • In Basic Search, you can just enter your search terms, without operators or formatting. ...
  • Yet you can use Advanced Search, or the MeSH Database (Medical Subject Headings), if you wish.
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Which is better PubMed or Google Scholar?

Conclusions. In conclusion, for quick clinical searches, Google Scholar returns twice as many relevant articles as PubMed and provides greater access to free full-texts. Improved searching by clinicians has the potential to enhance the transfer of research into practice and improve patient care.
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Is ResearchGate Scopus indexed?

Scopus indexed Journals 2019

Join ResearchGate to discover and stay up-to-date with the latest research from leading experts in Scopus and many other scientific topics.
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Does Scopus have an impact factor?

Scopus does not provide Impact Factor, it provides citecore and SJR. impact Factor is provided Clarivate Analytics; previously known as Thomson Reuters. CiteScore value is an analogy of Impact Factor JCR.
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What is Scopus index?

What is a Scopus indexed journal? Scopus is an Elsevier's abstract and citation database that was launched in 2004 to improve institutions' and professionals' progress in sciences and healthcare. It is known to be the best abstraction and citation database for peer-reviewed journals.
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What is PubMed indexed?

PubMed is an indexing service for journals in the medical profession, just as IEEE includes journals in computer science and mathematics, and Scopus and World of Science that are indexing journals from many disciplines. A journal can be indexed in several databases.
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Why is Scopus h lower than Google Scholar?

Google Scholar is a search engine and hence has a much wider coverage than Scopus, including theses and unpublished materials, etc. These are content types that are not indexed on Scopus and therefore will not contribute to the citation count so therefore the Scopus count is likely to be lower.
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Is Scopus Web of Science?

Scopus is an interdisciplinary bibliographic online database launched in 2004 containing abstracts and citation database as a competitor to Web of Science. Scopus is owned by Elsevier, an international publication group.
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Is Scopus free?

Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database. Although the Library does not subscribe to Scopus, you can still use a free version of it. Scopus traces citations and impact factors of articles in peer-reviewed journals in all subjects, and is especially strong in the sciences.
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Can anyone publish on PubMed?

You can upload your manuscript to PubMed through NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) system. However, for that, your manuscript should be funded by NIH or one of the co-authors should be NIH employee.
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Is PubMed journal indexed?

Every article in the journal is indexed in the Medline database (ie. Index Medicus) and PubMed. PubMed was created to be the free public search interface to the Medline database so all Medline records will appear in PubMed.
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What is ISI and Scopus?

You may have seen or heard ISI or Scopus. They are databases that contain a list of journals. Based on some evaluation criteria, the journals get indexed (listed) in these databases. Depending on your domain of study, either one could be more important than the other.
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