Google Books, Scopus, Microsoft Academic and Mendeley for impact assessment of doctoral dissertations: A multidisciplinary analysis of the UK

Kousha, Kayvan; Thelwall, Mike

doi:10.1162/qss_a_00042

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“…Regarding the dynamics of production, a total of 143 dissertations were completed during the observation window. The average number of citations per document is relatively low (0.24 cites/document), compared to slightly higher averages found in the field of engineering [30,31]. The number of keywords per document is around 3.4 (486/143), a typical value.…”

Section: Rq1 Production Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 78%

Revealing the research landscape of Master's degrees via bibliometric analyses

Chaparro,

Rojas-Galeano

2021

Preprint

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The evolution of a Master's programme, like many other human institutions, can be viewed as a self-organising system whose underlying structures and dynamics arise primarily from the interaction of its faculty and students. Identifying these hidden properties may not be a trivial task, due to the complex behaviour implicit in such evolution. Nonetheless, we argue that the programme's body of research production (represented mainly by dissertations) can serve this purpose. Bibliometric analyses of such data can reveal insights about production growth, collaborative networks, and visual mapping of established, niche, and emerging research topics, among other facets. Thus, we propose a bibliometric workflow aimed at discovering the production dynamics, as well as the conceptual, social and intellectual structures developed by the Master's degree, in the interest of guiding decision-makers to better assess the strengths of the programme and to prioritise strategic goals. In addition, we report two case studies to illustrate the realisation of the proposed workflow. We conclude with considerations on the possible application of the approach to other academic research units.

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Section: Rq1 Production Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 78%

Revealing the research landscape of Master's degrees via bibliometric analyses

Chaparro,

Rojas-Galeano

2021

Preprint

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“…We provided the analysis on combined Scopus and Google Books citations in line with the pre-specified empirical strategy above, being interested in whether monographic dissertations receive more citations. Finally, we manually collected Google Scholar citations, which have been used before to estimate the scholarly impact of dissertations (Kousha & Thelwall, 2020), and applied the above empirical strategy to assess if the results also hold for Google Scholar citations.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Despite this, compared to journal publications, the citation rate of dissertations in the scientific literature has declined over time (Larivière et al, 2008). Less than 12% of the dissertations produced by UK doctoral candidates have at least one citation on platforms like Scopus, Microsoft Academic, or Google Books (Kousha & Thelwall, 2020).…”

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Patterns of dissertation dissemination: publication-based outcomes of doctoral theses in the social sciences

Asanov,

Buenstorf

et al. 2024

Scientometrics

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Dissemination of knowledge through the publication of findings is a cornerstone of the academic research system. Doctoral dissertations document the findings made by early-stage researchers during their doctoral studies. However, prior research suggests that dissertations may not be effective in disseminating these findings to the broader community of researchers. We study how knowledge documented in doctoral dissertations is disseminated. Specifically, we investigate which dissertation characteristics and institutional factors are related to the number of journal publications based on these dissertations and the number of citations that these publications receive. Our analysis uses a random sample of doctoral dissertations from German universities in economics, political science, and sociology. We find that “cumulative” dissertations—dissertations consisting of a number of separate articles—are turned into three times more publications which receive three times more citations than monographic dissertations. We also find explorative evidence that dissertations written in English and empirical dissertations have higher publication-based outcomes. We conclude that a policy allowing doctoral candidates to write their dissertations in a cumulative format provides them with an opportunity to share the results of their research through publications in peer-reviewed journals.

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Digital Technologies Applications in the Provision of Library and Information Services in Health Crises

Ali

Bhatti

2020

Journal of Hospital Librarianship

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This study is an attempt to provide an overview of how librarians are working from home and the sort of services they are providing using cutting-edge technological tools such as Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Altmetrics, social media, video conferencing. In this descriptive study, the researchers discuss the COVID-19 phenomena in the context of digital technological support. Researchers share their viewpoints in the context of this global pandemic noting that libraries can apply the best digital technology tools to best meet the evidence-based information needs of their users. This study also discusses the problems and challenges and how librarians can meet these challenges in disaster situations. The authors believe that this is the first study relating to the use of digital technology during the COVID crisis in Pakistan.

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Google Books, Scopus, Microsoft Academic and Mendeley for impact assessment of doctoral dissertations: A multidisciplinary analysis of the UK

Cited by 3 publications

References 47 publications

Revealing the research landscape of Master's degrees via bibliometric analyses

Revealing the research landscape of Master's degrees via bibliometric analyses

Patterns of dissertation dissemination: publication-based outcomes of doctoral theses in the social sciences

Digital Technologies Applications in the Provision of Library and Information Services in Health Crises

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