What is the better choice between SCOPUS and ISI indexed journals?

A research that can help in solving a real problem or that leads to benefit humans is most important regardless the journal in which it is published.

If you looking for journal ranking ISI is better, if you looking for author or researcher profile the Scopus is better.

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.

Both are good..

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The most important is that it is in an indexed journal.

Dear Ali Akhaddar

I agree with you.

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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.

Both are good and provides good indexing of journals.

I think both are good

Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature .

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).

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Emeka W. Dumbili

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Sunday Oyinlola Ogundoyin

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Adiya K. Hussein

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I think both of them are good

Dear Lamia Mustafa Al-Naama

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ISI journals indexed in web of science are better in terms of journal ranking and reputability.

Both the journals have good index. ISI has edge over Scopus.

Dear Isa Baba Koki

I agree with you. Thanks for your valuable comment.

Dear Nelaturi V Raghavaiah

Could you tell me what a "ISI has edge over Scopus" such as?.

Dear friend Mahmood A. Al-Shareeda

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

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I will go for both but ISI is more reputable.

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........

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Mustafa Sabah Taha

Obasanjo Bolarinwa

V A Sankar Ponnapalli

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Both are important at an individual level.

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.

In my opinion, both are important.

I agree with Dr. Mahfuz. Each Journal has its own quality.

I prefer ISI.

I'll go for the both but ISI is more preferable

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Joshua O. Ighalo

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Amin Mahmoudi

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I too agree with Prof Feroz Shaik. Each Journal has its own quality and potential in respective fields.

Dear Mahmood A. Al-Shareeda, I do agree with the previews fellow researchers that each has potential on its features.

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Mhd. Syahnan

Nageswara Rao Lakkimsetty

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ISI or SCOPUS; any of them is okay

ISI

Dear colleagues,

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:

Useful links http://www.agricultforest.ac.me/agriculture&forestry/page/53

Search in the Lists of SCI, SSCI, and A&HCI Journals

SCOPUS

If the filter is showing that the journal is in both: SCOPUS and ISI, than this is a good choice.

Finally, my experience is that all the journals that are ISI are also in SCOPUS.

The journals that are in SCOPUS are not necessarily in the in the Lists of SCI, SSCI, and A&HCI Journals.

I hope this clarify,

Velibor Spalevic, University of Montenegro

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Velibor Spalevic

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Both are esteemed.

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Md. Abdur Razzak Choudhury

I agree with you. Highly appreciated for your time.

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Mahmood

V A Sankar Ponnapalli

Thanks for arising such answer.

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Mahmood

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عبدالله البريدي Abdullah Al-Beraidi

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Mahmood

I believe that ISI indexed journals are better than Scopus indexed.

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Janani Lekshmipathy

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both:SCOPUS and ISI.

SCOPUS anyday!

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Awatif Rezzoky Al-Dubaicy

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Mahmood

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Mahmood

Here, in Greece, ISI indexed journals matter more than Scopus indexed journals (not ISI indexed ones at the same time) for academic promotion.

I think both SCOPUS and ISI. …

In addition, after a brief search, I came across a relevant link to the main question of the thread, right below.

In Google I found the following answer:

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.

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Aristidis Matsoukis

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Ahmed Ramadhan Al-Obaidi

Thanks for arising such answer.

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Mahmood

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Maged G. Bin-Saad

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Mahmood

Scopus covers a wider journal range and offer the capability for citation analysis.

Scopus

Thanks for this question

Both have reputation. so my opinion is both

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Dmytro Leshchenko

I totally agree with you.

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Abdelhameed Ibrahim

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Both have their own features and scope.

Mahmood A. Al-Shareeda has a larger database, but ISI is more trustable.

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.

I agree with Mr. Asaad Ma. Babker

Scopus

I do agree with @ Aristidis Matsoukis.

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Dear Augustine Madu

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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.

Dear Vadym Slyusar

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Mahmood

Dear all,

this is a new ‘search engine’ for scientific journals and their impact factors.

You just have to type the journal’s name or the field/category of journals you are interested in

isi

I think, it varies from region (sometimes country) to region.

Like in Malaysia, Ukraine and some other countries, SCOPUS is more regarded, whereas in some parts, GScholar and similarly SCI/SCIE indexing.

As per my personal experience, ISI indexed is better; however we can not say it is true in every case.

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.

Thankyou for this question

Web of Science indexed journals:

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.

@ Mujeeb, is absolutely correct. Supervisors plays significant role regarding where and which journal to publish at