"explicit comparisons" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are talking about a comparison that has been clearly stated. For example: "The report included explicit comparisons between the performance of the two companies."
These explicit comparisons introduced by "like" or "as" proliferate across Paradise Lost.
She is too disciplined to make explicit comparisons to the present in the book, but it's infused with a sense that the story she tells may hold lessons for us.
It is set in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and although its author, Mark Knights, who teaches at the University of East Anglia, does not make explicit comparisons to the present, it seems obvious that such comparisons are on his mind.
Since our sample is not representative, we refrain from explicit comparisons with other survey results.
Mating preferences may be tested using either no-choice or choice tests, but explicit comparisons between these two experimental paradigms remain limited.
The results suggest that the nature of responses to differences in ascriptive characteristics is discernible when we can examine the explicit comparisons that discriminating agents make among those against whom they discriminate.
She makes an explicit comparison with the United States.
Carey draws an explicit comparison between the clockwork automata that so fascinate Catherine and Henry and the characters themselves.
Although the book does not make an explicit comparison to our current political moment, the parallels are hard to ignore.
In the veiled language of diplomacy, it would be difficult to make a more explicit comparison between two parallel struggles.
Metaphor, that implies comparison between two unlike entities, as distinguished from simile, an explicit comparison signalled by the words "like" or "as".
