A Brief History of Scopus: The World’s Largest Abstract and Citation Database of Scientific Literature

Schotten, Michiel; Aisati, M’hamed El; Meester, Wim J. N.; Steiginga, Susanne; Ross, Cameron A.

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“…In the present study, we utilized a total of 215 studies that used Rasch models from 21 journals in language assessment and applied linguistics indexed in Scopus to generate statistical results. Scopus is the largest available database of published research (Schotten, Aisati, Meester, Steigninga, & Ross, 2018). First, we chose 21 journals in applied linguistics from the Scimago's list of the top 100 journals in linguistics as of November 2019 (Scimago, 2018).…”

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A comprehensive review of Rasch measurement in language assessment: Recommendations and guidelines for research

Aryadoust

Sayama

2020

Language Testing

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Over the past decades, the application of Rasch measurement in language assessment has gradually increased. In the present study, we reviewed and coded 215 papers using Rasch measurement published in 21 applied linguistics journals for multiple features. We found that seven Rasch models and 23 software packages were adopted in these papers, with many-facet Rasch measurement ( n = 100) and Facets ( n = 113) being the most frequently used Rasch model and software, respectively. Significant differences were detected between the number of papers that applied Rasch measurement to different language skills and components, with writing ( n = 63) and grammar ( n = 12) being the most and least frequently investigated, respectively. In addition, significant differences were found between the number of papers reporting person separation ( n = 73, not reported: n = 142) and item separation ( n = 59, not reported: n = 156) and those that did not. An alarming finding was how few papers reported unidimensionality check ( n = 57 vs 158) and local independence ( n = 19 vs 196). Finally, a multilayer network analysis revealed that research involving Rasch measurement has created two major discrete communities of practice (clusters), which can be characterized by features such as language skills, the Rasch models used, and the reporting of item reliability/separation vs person reliability/separation. Cluster 1 was accordingly labelled the production and performance cluster, whereas cluster 2 was labelled the perception and language elements cluster. Guidelines and recommendations for analyzing unidimensionality, local independence, data-to-model fit, and reliability in Rasch model analysis are proposed.

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A comprehensive review of Rasch measurement in language assessment: Recommendations and guidelines for research

Aryadoust

Sayama

2020

Language Testing

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“…Publications of the scientists are extracted from the Scopus database using the author profiles, which are formed by a combination of curated profiles and profiles generated by an “author profiling” algorithm [5]. The reported precision and recall by Scopus in 2017 was 98% precision (i.e., on average, 98% of publications merged in a profile belong to one and the same person) at an average recall of 93.5% (i.e., on average, 93.5% of all publications of the same person are merged into one profile); the evaluation used a manual assessment of a sample of >6,000 authors for which the full publication history was collected and compared to what is available in the Scopus profiles.…”

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A standardized citation metrics author database annotated for scientific field

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Citation metrics are widely used and misused. We have created a publicly available database of 100,000 top scientists that provides standardized information on citations, h-index, coauthorship-adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions, and a composite indicator. Separate data are shown for career-long and single-year impact. Metrics with and without self-citations and ratio of citations to citing papers are given. Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields. Field- and subfield-specific percentiles are also provided for all scientists who have published at least five papers. Career-long data are updated to end of 2017 and to end of 2018 for comparison.

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“…Figure 1). Data for analysis were retrieved from the Scopus database, considered as a reliable source bibliometric data comprising high quality research publications (Mongeon & Paul-Hus, 2016;Schotten et al, 2017;Scopus Content Coverage Guide 2020Zhu & Liu, 2020). For the purposes of research sampling process, the following query was conducted on 08 November 2020: Title Search ('CSR' or 'corporate social responsibility') AND Topic Search ('case stud*').…”

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Case Study Methodology in Research on Corporate Social Responsibility: General Publication Profiling and Identifying Research Contexts

Lis

2021

JCRL

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The aim of the paper is to profile the scientific output in research on corporate social responsibility employing the methodology of case study. The research process is focused around the following research questions: (1) How has the research productivity in CSR case studies been changing? (2) What are the most productive contributors (countries, research institutions, source titles and scholars) to the scientific output? (3) What are the most popular contexts (geography, industry, company type) of CSR studies employing case study methodology? Design/methodology/approach: The study employed the method of research profiling, which is categorized among bibliometric descriptive studies. The standard version of general publication profiling, comprising four aspects used to describe the scientific output in the research field i.e.: country profiling, research institution profiling, source title profiling and author profiling, was supplemented with identification of the research contexts of CSR case studies. Research profiling was supported with citation analysis and co-authorship analysis, representing science mapping methods. VOSviewer software was employed to conduct citation analysis and co-authorship analysis and visualize the findings. Findings: The studies employing case study analysis methodology to explore corporate social responsibility issues are still within the growth phase of the research field life cycle. Research profiling of the journAL of CorporAte responsibiLity And LeAdership the CAse studies in CorporAte soCiAL responsibiLity 8 Andrzej Lis most productive countries, research institutions, and authors indicates the leading position of the United Kingdom. The followers are both developed nations, mainly Anglo-Saxon countries (the United States, Australia, Canada) and European continental countries (Spain, Italy, Denmark), as well as developing nations (India, Indonesia, China). Source titles profiling points out the following journals of the highest prominence publishing CSR case studies: Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Cleaner Production, and Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. The CSR case studies are embedded in the contexts of both developed and developing nations. The mining industry is found to be the sector attracting the most attention of researchers. Other industries which are often analysed in CSR studies include: tourism and hospitality, food, banking and financial services, chemical, forestry, manufacturing, public health, fashion and textile, oil industries. Research implications: Through bibliometric analysis of case studies in corporate social responsibility, the study contributes first and foremost to management theory. Firstly, it provides the scholars interested in the field with a detailed map identifying key contributors (countries, research institutions and authors), which may be useful for establishing research collaboration. Secondly, analysing leading source titles is of high practical value for the authors considering journals for submitting t...

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A Brief History of Scopus: The World’s Largest Abstract and Citation Database of Scientific Literature

Cited by 113 publications

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A comprehensive review of Rasch measurement in language assessment: Recommendations and guidelines for research

A comprehensive review of Rasch measurement in language assessment: Recommendations and guidelines for research

A standardized citation metrics author database annotated for scientific field

Case Study Methodology in Research on Corporate Social Responsibility: General Publication Profiling and Identifying Research Contexts

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