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Byline: Mark Chillingworth
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Kim Thomas
Scopus, the abstract and citation database, has introduced WebCites -- a service enabling users to track the influence of peer-reviewed research on scientific literature.
Currently, Scopus users have the ability to search 15,000 peer-reviewed journals in the social sciences, and in the fields of science, technology and medicine. The database is also integrated with the scientific Elsevier search engine Scirus and with patent literature. The addition of WebCites will enable users to see citations to articles in Scopus from a number of selected scientific sources on the web, including institutional repositories such as Caltech, and dissertation databases such as the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). "This will lead to additional citations, and will also bring users to information they wouldn't find just by looking at the citations within Scopus itself," said Niels Weertman, head of product management at Scopus.
Scopus makes a distinction between citations from peer-reviewed literature, patent citations and web citations, ...