Korea Citation Index and Its Macro Bibliometrics

Kim, So-Hyeong; Choi, Taejin; Yoon, Aeran; Seol, Sungsoo

doi:10.7545/ajip.2013.2.2.194

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“…Therefore, we think that it is important to develop regional databases covering local and regional information from local and regional journals [ 41 – 43 ]. Article metadata from local journals and citation databases are being aggregated in China [ 15 ] Japan [ 44 ] Latin America [ 45 ], Africa [ 46 ], Spain [ 47 ], India [ 48 ], Thailand [ 49 ], and South Korea [ 16 , 17 ]. However, the quality and sustainability of these projects are unknown.…”

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“…However, popular citation databases such as WoS and Scopus have limited coverage of local journals, non-English literature, and some subject areas (e.g., social sciences and humanities) [ 12 – 14 ]. This lack of coverage has been compensated for by using national citation databases in countries including China [ 15 ] and South Korea[ 7 , 16 , 17 ].…”

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Usage Trends of Open Access and Local Journals: A Korean Case Study

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Articles from open access and local journals are important resources for research in Korea and the usage trends of these articles are important indicators for the assessment of the current research practice. We analyzed an institutional collection of published papers from 1998 to 2014 authored by researchers from Seoul National University, and their references from papers published between 1998 and 2011. The published papers were collected from Web of Science or Scopus and were analyzed according to the proportion of articles from open access journals. Their cited references from published papers in Web of Science were analyzed according to the proportion of local (South Korean) or open access journals. The proportion of open access papers was relatively stable until 2006 (2.5 ~ 5.2% in Web of Science and 2.7 ~ 4.2% in Scopus), but then increased to 15.9% (Web of Science) or 18.5% (Scopus) in 2014. We analyzed 2,750,485 cited references from 52,295 published papers. We found that the overall proportion of cited articles from local journals was 1.8% and that for open access journals was 3.0%. Citations of open access articles have increased since 2006 to 4.1% in 2011, although the increase in open access article citations was less than for open access publications. The proportion of citations from local journals was even lower. We think that the publishing / citing mismatch is a term to describe this difference, which is an issue at Seoul National University, where the number of published papers at open access or local journals is increasing but the number of citations is not. The cause of this discrepancy is multi-factorial but the governmental / institutional policies, social / cultural issues and authors' citing behaviors will explain the mismatch. However, additional measures are also necessary, such as the development of an institutional citation database and improved search capabilities with respect to local and open access documents.

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Mirror, mirror on the wall: is economics the fairest of them all? An investigation into the social sciences and humanities in Vietnam

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Bui

Nguyen

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Three major scientific policies implemented in 2008, 2014, and 2017 have pushed Vietnam’s social sciences and humanities (SSH) toward higher international standards. This study uses descriptive and Bayesian approaches on a dataset of 1,564 Vietnamese authors in the 2008–18 period to understand the changes under the new policies and the remaining challenges. The findings indicate that Economics is the most productive SSH field, with 858 publications in 11 years. Even though the number of authors has risen rapidly, gender disparity is still an issue. Economics has benefitted the most from Vietnam's development, and to a lesser extent, so have Education and Social Medicine. Future policies should aim to provide an enabling environment for female and early career researchers in every SSH field in Vietnam. The study calls for responsible usage of cross-discipline publication data to maintain a transparent source of information.

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