This paper presents the possibilities offered by the Scopus bibliographic database for the calculation of scientometric indica-tors through an analysis of publications whose subject is pediatrics. The article shows the different search possibilities by doc-uments, by author, by affiliation, advanced search and search by journal, as well as the visualization of the retrieved records. The main tools for the analysis of the retrieved records are exposed, highlighting the analyze search results function, of special interest for the calculation of scientific production indicators, and the citation overview function, necessary for the calculation of the citation impact based indicators. Finally, the metrics used by Scopus are briefly described using the Acta Pediátrica Es-pañola journal as an example.

This paper presents the Web of Science Core Collection and more particularly the Science Citation Index-Expanded as a biblio-graphic database to obtain bibliometric indicators of scientific activity. An analysis of pediatric publications through Pediatrics cate-gory is performed explaining the different search options which are available in the database as well as a detailed visualization of the possible options that can be made with the results. Among the main functions offered by the Web of Science Core Collection, the «Analyze results» function is a useful tool for the calculation of scientific production indicators, and the function «Create citation report» which is related to citation impact based indicators.