Critical rationalism and the search for standard (field-normalized) indicators in bibliometrics

Bornmann, Lutz; Marx, Werner

doi:10.1016/j.joi.2018.05.002

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“…This becomes problematic when data from both sources are used or compared, since the large-scale analyses usually involve the aggregation of data from multiple disciplines and subject fields highly differing in publication and citation practices, which, in turn, requires classifying the data under a common classification scheme. Thus, making an accurate delineation of subject fields is crucial for reliable bibliometric analyses, for calculating field-normalized indicators, and for studying disciplinary relations of research activities [64,173,[176][177][178].…”

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“…Moreover, classification schemes applied in both WoS and Scopus lack documentation adequately describing the methodology used to construct them, thus making their use for bibliometric analyses problematic [64]. Accordingly, setbacks that arise due to the incompatibility and flaws in WoS and/or Scopus classification schemes have been (and still are) largely discussed among the scientometric community [4,44,173,178,[180][181][182], and they are attempted to be solved by proposing alternative classification methods [177,[183][184][185][186][187][188][189].…”

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Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World

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Nowadays, the importance of bibliographic databases (DBs) has increased enormously, as they are the main providers of publication metadata and bibliometric indicators universally used both for research assessment practices and for performing daily tasks. Because the reliability of these tasks firstly depends on the data source, all users of the DBs should be able to choose the most suitable one. Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus are the two main bibliographic DBs. The comprehensive evaluation of the DBs’ coverage is practically impossible without extensive bibliometric analyses or literature reviews, but most DBs users do not have bibliometric competence and/or are not willing to invest additional time for such evaluations. Apart from that, the convenience of the DB’s interface, performance, provided impact indicators and additional tools may also influence the users’ choice. The main goal of this work is to provide all of the potential users with an all-inclusive description of the two main bibliographic DBs by gathering the findings that are presented in the most recent literature and information provided by the owners of the DBs at one place. This overview should aid all stakeholders employing publication and citation data in selecting the most suitable DB.

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Section: Inconsistencies In Subject Classification Schemes and Document Typesmentioning

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Section: Inconsistencies In Subject Classification Schemes and Document Typesmentioning

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Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World

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“…Bibliometrics provide quantitative methods for analyzing academic literature in specific research fields. Using bibliometrics methodology, researchers can conduct a quantitative analysis of the distribution structure and evolution of disciplines in papers, thus minimizing the impact of subjectivity on the quality of review [ 28 , 29 ]. In the field of energy research, some scholars have applied the bibliometric method to energy security, energy efficiency, the renewable energy supply chain, and other fields [ 30 , 31 , 32 ].…”

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Mapping the Worldwide Trends on Energy Poverty Research: A Bibliometric Analysis (1999–2019)

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Wang

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Energy poverty is one of the main challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Research on energy poverty is becoming a common focus of scholars in many areas. Bibliometrics can help researchers dig deep into the information of specific research fields from a quantitative perspective. In this study, we collected 1018 research papers in the field of energy poverty published in the period 1999–2019 from the Web of Science databases and conducted a bibliometric analysis on them. Cleaning and screening of sample papers, matrix construction, and visualization were performed using Bibliometrix, VOSviewer, and HistCite, summarizing the internal and external characteristics of the papers. With regard to external characteristics, a total of 982 research institutions in 80 regions conducted research in this field. There is extensive cooperation between the countries, and the UK, the USA, Australia, and Italy play the most active role in the cooperation network. With regard to internal characteristics, we found the two most representative citation paths: one path starts from the concerns of energy-poor groups and stops at an ethical discussion on energy poverty; the second path is based on the existing technological path, continuously developing coping policies, evaluation methods, and a conceptual framework for dealing with energy poverty. Furthermore, through coupling analysis, we discovered four focuses of energy poverty research: improvement of definition, improvement of evaluation methods, effects of coping policy, and energy justice. Through a comprehensive analysis of existing papers, this paper reveals some limitations of previous studies and recommends some promising directions for future research on energy poverty.

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“…Bibliometrics is a quantitative statistical method that uses mathematical and statistical methods to study the growth and distribution of scientific literature [22]. Knowledge map is a method that combines the theory and method of applied mathematics, graphics, information visualization technology, information science and other disciplines with citation analysis and co-occurrence of bibliometrics.…”

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A Scientometrics Review on Land Ecosystem Service Research

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Humans can derive the benefits from the ecosystem to satisfy human needs as well-being. Therefore, good ecosystem management is the intermediary between ecosystems and human well-being. The ecosystem services depend on the supply of nature, and also reflect the value orientation of human beings, as the basis for the realization of human survival and cultural development. Land ecosystem services are the core and hot topic of ecological research. Under the current severe depletion of land use, this research evaluates the sustainable governance on the natural resource shortage, serious environmental pollution and ecosystem degradation. Based on the Web of Science database, this paper analyzes the development characteristics and trends of global land ecosystem services research using the Bibliometrix software package. The results show that (1) the amount of literature on land ecosystem services research between 2000 and 2019 has generally increased significantly, and entered a stage of rapid development from 2015. (2) Developed countries are the main research force in the field of land ecosystem services, and the United States has the absolute leading position. Developing countries are dominated by China, Argentina, and Brazil. (3)The high-frequency keywords for land ecosystem services are land use change, land use, climate change, urbanization, carbon and water quality. This can be regarded as a research hotspot in the field of land ecosystem services to a certain extent. (4) Through cluster analysis on the big data, the research found the direction for the future land ecosystem services, mainly: (I) the restoration of degraded land and its impact on ecosystem services; (II) the environmental impact assessment of land use planning based on the ecosystem services value; (III) the tradeoff analysis of ecosystem services in sustainable land management; (IV) the impact of land cover change on ecosystem services; (V) through the historical analysis of citied papers, the research history and evolution path of land ecosystem services are explored. Based on all these arguments, a comprehensive study on the diverse facets of land ecosystem services and the practical application of land ecosystem services areas is proposed.

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Critical rationalism and the search for standard (field-normalized) indicators in bibliometrics

Cited by 27 publications

References 50 publications

Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World

Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World

Mapping the Worldwide Trends on Energy Poverty Research: A Bibliometric Analysis (1999–2019)

A Scientometrics Review on Land Ecosystem Service Research

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