Comparing alternatives to the Web of Science for coverage of the social sciences’ literature

Norris, Michael; Oppenheim, Charles

doi:10.1016/j.joi.2006.12.001

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“…In four science disciplines, Kousha and Thelwall (2006) found that the overlap of citing documents between Google Scholar and Web of Science varies from one field to another and, in some cases, such as chemistry, it is relatively low (33%). Norris and Oppenheim (2007) used all but 720 of the journal articles submitted for the purpose of the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise in the social sciences (n=33,533), as well as the list of 2,800 journals indexed in the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, to assess the coverage of four data sources (CSA Illumina, Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science). They found that Scopus provides the best coverage of social science literature from among these data sources and concluded that Scopus could be used as an alternative to Web of Science as a tool to evaluate research impact in the social sciences.…”

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Citation counting, citation ranking, and h‐index of human‐computer interaction researchers: A comparison of Scopus and Web of Science

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Rogers

2008

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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This study examines the differences between Scopus and Web of Science in the citation counting, citation ranking, and h-index of 22 top human-computer interaction (HCI) researchers from EQUATOR-a large British Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration project. Results indicate that Scopus provides significantly more coverage of HCI literature than Web of Science, primarily due to coverage of relevant ACM and IEEE peer-reviewed conference proceedings. No significant differences exist between the two databases if citations in journals only are compared. Although broader coverage of the literature does not significantly alter the relative citation ranking of individual researchers, Scopus helps distinguish between the researchers in a more nuanced fashion than Web of Science in both citation counting and h-index. Scopus also generates significantly different maps of citation networks of individual scholars than those generated by Web of Science. The study also presents a comparison of h-index scores based on Google Scholar with those based on the union of Scopus and Web of Science. The study concludes that Scopus can be used as a sole data source for citation-based research and evaluation in HCI, especially when citations in conference proceedings are sought, and that h scores should be manually calculated instead of relying on system calculations.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Citation counting, citation ranking, and h‐index of human‐computer interaction researchers: A comparison of Scopus and Web of Science

Meho

Rogers

2008

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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“…Although there is a significant overlap between the contents of Scopus and the Web of Science (Norris & Oppenheim, 2007), two factors made Scopus stand out: 1) a greater number of journals, and a much greater number of non-English-language journals are indexed by Scopus, than by the Web of Science (Li, Qiao, Li, & Jin, 2014;Mongeon & Paul-Hus, 2016;Vieira & Gomes, 2009); 2) Scopus was technically easier to manage and data mine. The main advantage of Scopus is that when typing the name of a country (e.g., Sweden) into the "Affiliation search" field, the system lists all affiliations in that country (e.g., 395 affiliation results in Sweden) and assigns them to cities (e.g., 75 cities in Sweden).…”

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Csomós

2017

Journal of Informetrics

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“…Scopus, a multidisciplinary database with citation indexing (Norris and Oppenheim, 2007). Scopus contains over 28 millions of records from 15.000 titles, 12.850 of which are journals, 700 conference proceedings, 600 trade publications, 500 open access journals and 125 book series.…”

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Measuring economic journals’ citation efficiency: a data envelopment analysis approach

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Tzeremes

2011

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThis paper by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and statistical inference evaluates the citation performance of 229 economic journals. The paper categorizes the journals into four main categories (A to D) based on their efficiency levels. The results are then compared to the 27 "core economic journals" as introduced by Dimond (1989). The results reveal that after more than twenty years Diamonds' list of "core economic journals" is still valid. Finally, for the first time the paper uses data from four well-known databases (SSCI, Scopus, RePEc, Econlit) and two quality ranking reports (Kiel Institute internals ranking and ABS quality ranking report) in a DEA setting and in order to derive the ranking of 229 economic journals.

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Comparing alternatives to the Web of Science for coverage of the social sciences’ literature

Cited by 486 publications

References 6 publications

Citation counting, citation ranking, and h‐index of human‐computer interaction researchers: A comparison of Scopus and Web of Science

Citation counting, citation ranking, and h‐index of human‐computer interaction researchers: A comparison of Scopus and Web of Science

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Measuring economic journals’ citation efficiency: a data envelopment analysis approach

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