Funding information in Web of Science: an updated overview

Liu, Weishu; Tang, Li; Hu, Guangyuan

doi:10.1007/s11192-020-03362-3

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“…Because publication and citation data have become increasingly important for accessing performance of individual authors and institutions, several studies have focused on the accuracy and applicability of author [70,71] and institution [72,73] information provided in WoS and Scopus. Meanwhile, the coverage and accuracy of funding information in WoS [74][75][76][77][78] and/or Scopus [79,80] has also attracted considerable attention.…”

Section: Literature Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

2021

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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: Literature Overviewmentioning

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

2021

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“…Funding information in scientific publications often lacks standards and is incomplete. Completeness and accuracy of funding information in bibliographic databases do practically not allow any profound bibliometric analysis at this level (Alvarez-Bornstein Liu et al 2020). Nevertheless, to gain some insight into the funding patterns of research on the epidemics, we also analysed the information obtained from the WoS metadata.…”

Section: Funding Agencymentioning

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How scientific research reacts to international public health emergencies: a global analysis of response patterns

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As of the middle of April 2020, the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has claimed more than 137,000 lives (https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html). Because of its extremely fast spreading, the attention of the global scientific community is now focusing on slowing down, containing and finally stopping the spread of this disease. This requires the concerted action of researchers and practitioners of many related fields, raising, as always in such situations the question, of what kind of research has to be conducted, what are the priorities, how has research to be coordinated and who needs to be involved. In other words, what are the characteristics of the response of the global research community on the challenge? In the present paper, we attempt to characterise, quantify and measure the response of academia to international public health emergencies in a comparative bibliometric study of multiple outbreaks. In addition, we provide a preliminary review of the global research effort regarding the defeat of the COVID-19 pandemic. From our analysis of six infectious disease outbreaks since 2000, including COVID-19, we find that academia always responded quickly to public health emergencies with a sharp increase in the number of publications immediately following the declaration of an outbreak by the WHO. In general, countries/regions place emphasis on epidemics in their own region, but Europe and North America are also concerned with outbreaks in other, developed and less developed areas through conducting intensive collaborative research with the core countries/regions of the outbreak, such as in the case of Ebola in Africa. Researches in the fields of virology, infectious diseases and immunology are the most active, and we identified two characteristic patterns in global science distinguishing research in Europe and America that is more focused on public health from that conducted in China and Japan with more emphasis on biomedical research and clinical pharmacy, respectively. Universities contribute slightly less than half to the global research output, and the vast majority of research funding originates from the public sector. Our findings on how academia responds to emergencies could be beneficial to decision-makers in research and health policy in creating and adjusting anti-epidemic/-pandemic strategies.

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“…Apart from the abstract/author keywords/keywords plus fields, some other features of WoSCC will also influence old literature retrieval and historical bibliometric analysis. If we don't fully grasp the characteristics of author's affiliation (Jacsó 2009;Liu et al 2018) and funding acknowledgment information (Liu et al 2020;Paul-Hus et al 2016;Tang et al 2017) in WoSCC, corresponding literature retrieval and analysis may be biased. Besides, full author names were captured in WoSCC since June 2006 (Clarivate 2018), serious name ambiguity problem exists for records published before 2006, especially for authors from East Asia (Harzing 2015;Tang & Walsh 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

Caveats for the use of Web of Science Core Collection in old literature retrieval and historical bibliometric analysis

Liu

2021

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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By using publications from Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC), Fosso Wamba and his colleagues published an interesting and comprehensive paper in Technological Forecasting and Social Change to explore the structure and dynamics of artificial intelligence (AI) scholarship. Data demonstrated in Fosso Wamba's study implied that the year 1991 seemed to be a "watershed" of AI research. This research note tried to uncover the 1991 phenomenon from the perspective of database limitation by probing the limitations of search in abstract/author keywords/keywords plus fields of WoSCC empirically. The low availability rates of abstract/author keywords/keywords plus information in WoSCC found in this study can explain the "watershed" phenomenon of AI scholarship in 1991 to a large extent. Some other caveats for the use of WoSCC in old literature retrieval and historical bibliometric analysis were also mentioned in the discussion section. This research note complements Fosso Wamba and his colleagues' study and also helps avoid improper interpretation in the use of WoSCC in old literature retrieval and historical bibliometric analysis.

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Funding information in Web of Science: an updated overview

Cited by 54 publications

References 46 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

How scientific research reacts to international public health emergencies: a global analysis of response patterns

Caveats for the use of Web of Science Core Collection in old literature retrieval and historical bibliometric analysis

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