Assessment of research fields in Scopus and Web of Science in the view of national research evaluation in Slovenia

Bartol, Tomaž; Budimir, Gordana; Dekleva-Smrekar, Doris; Pušnik, Miro; Južnič, Primož

doi:10.1007/s11192-013-1148-8

Cited by 168 publications

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“…We choose the Scopus database as a source for publications and citations, as it is currently the largest database of academic literature and it provides better coverage of publications and citations for the majority of disciplines compared to a Web of Science database by Thomson Reuters (Bergman 2012, Bartol et al 2014, Waltmann 2015.…”

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Is Scientific Performance a Function of Funds?

Zharova

Härdle

Lessmann³

2017

SSRN Journal

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The management of universities requires data on teaching and research performance. While teaching quality can be measured via student performance and teacher evaluation programs, the connection of research outputs and their antecedents is much harder to check, test and understand. To inform research governance and policy making at universities, the paper clarifies the relationship between grant money and research performance. We examine the interdependence structure between third-party expenses (TPE), publications, citations and academic age. To describe the relationship between these factors, we analyze individual level data from a sample of professorships from a leading research university and a Scopus database for the period 2001 to 2015. Using estimates from a PVARX model, impulse response functions and a forecast error variance decomposition, we show that an analysis at the university level is inappropriate and does not reflect the behavior of individual faculties. We explain the differences in the relationship structure between indicators for social sciences and humanities, life sciences and mathematical and natural sciences. For instance, for mathematics and some fields of social sciences and humanities, the influence of TPE on the number of publications is insignificant, whereas the influence of TPE on the number of citations is significant and positive. Corresponding results quantify the difference between the quality and quantity of research outputs, a better understanding of which is important to design incentive schemes and promotion programs. The paper also proposes a visualization of the cooperation between faculties and research interdisciplinarity via the co-authorship structure among publications. We discuss the implications for policy and decision making and make recommendations for the research management of universities.

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“…Similarly, the citation behavior varies across fields. Hicks et al (2015) and Bartol et al (2014) introduce the significant difference in the number of citations in particular subject areas and point out the necessity to normalize.…”

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Is Scientific Performance a Function of Funds?

Zharova

Härdle

Lessmann³

2017

SSRN Journal

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“…The increase in the number of articles published by international groups of authors is recognized. Bartol et al (2014) found out that international co-authorship increases the importance of an article or a journal. The same can be drawn for Geodetski vestnik.…”

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Geodetski vestnik and its path to better international recognition

Povh¹,

Lisec²

2015

Geod. vestn.

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“…9 Nejnovější data z této databáze by mohla přinést výsledky v některých ohledech výrazně odlišné od dat z WoS, protože Scopus indexuje jinou a větší množinu časopisů než WoS, a potenciálně tedy může zaznamenat řadu citací, které na WoS chybí [Bartol et al 2014]. Avšak také Scopus obsahuje podle dosavadních výzkumů velké množství chybových záznamů a navzdory většímu počtu zahrnutých časopisů má stále daleko k vyčerpávajícímu pokrytí odborných periodik z celého světa [de Moya-Anegón et al 2007].…”

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Total and Foreign-Journal Citedness of Sociologický časopis: The Results of a Citation Analysis

Skovajsa¹

2014

Czech Sociological Review

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This citation analysis of Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review looks at the journal's total infl uence and the infl uence outside Czech(oslovak) sociology as measured by the number of citations in foreign journals. Indexed since the 1970s, SČ/CSR is the longest-covered East European sociology journal in the Web of Science. Beyond citation counts available through the WoS's Basic Search option, foreign-journal citation data were collected by examining the reference lists of all WoS-indexed foreign-journal articles listed as citing SČ/CSR in the WoS's Cited Reference Search or Google Scholar. In total, 690 foreign-journal citations of SČ/CSR between 1965 and 2013 were retrieved, including 113 author self-citations and 253 citations made by Czech and Slovak authors. Among the 690 citations, 379 are not indexed correctly in the WoS. The number of foreign citations missing from the WoS ranges from 14% for the Czech issues in 2002-2013 to 32% for the English issues in the same period. WoS is missing all 221 citations to the Czech Sociological Review between 1993 and 2001; this was a separate journal not included in the SSCI, which resulted in an important loss of international visibility for Czech sociology. In terms of perarticle-citedness by foreign journals, the English-language edition of SČ/CSR was expectably cited more often than the Czech edition. The highest foreign citation numbers were received by the English-language edition in 1993-2001, followed by the English issues in 2002-2013. The author's expanded foreign citation data set yields a very different ranking of most-cited articles from SČ/CSR than the one based on WoS citation counts, suggesting that WoS is not a reliable source of data for identifying most-cited articles. A comparison between most-cited articles by any journal and by foreign journals only indicates that different articles are infl uential nationally and internationally.

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Assessment of research fields in Scopus and Web of Science in the view of national research evaluation in Slovenia

Cited by 168 publications

References 26 publications

Is Scientific Performance a Function of Funds?

Is Scientific Performance a Function of Funds?

Geodetski vestnik and its path to better international recognition

Total and Foreign-Journal Citedness of Sociologický časopis: The Results of a Citation Analysis

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