Google Scholar alternatywą dla Web of Science? Próba porównania obu narzędzi pod kątem wykonywania analizy cytowań

摘要

The aim of the present paper is a trial of comparison of both bases, Web of Science and Google Scholar, actually the database and the scientific search engine - which is a basic and very important trait differing both of these tools - from the point of view of performance of the analisis of authors' publications, magazines or scientific units. Google Scholar has been a free scientific search engine available in the Internet in the beta version since November 2004. Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database placed on the ISI Web of Knowledge platform, containing bibliographic descriptions from scientific magazines and conference materials since 1945. Both of these products are supplied with tools enabling performance of the citation analysis. However can they be used interchangeably? Are the results obtained from both bases comparable? What do they differ in? Are these differences vital while judging a unit? In the paper there have been presented two ways of performance of analysis - according to the affiliation and the author and a trial of answering the questions has been taken up.