Use of Scopus and Google Scholar to measure social sciences production in four major Spanish universities

Etxebarria, Goio; Gómez-Uranga, Mikel

doi:10.1007/s11192-009-0043-9

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“…It also creates boundaries, which exclude those who does not understand. An investigation of Spanish universities showed that a large proportion of scholars, who were rated as prestigious, do not appear in ISI or Scopus (Extebarria & Gomez-Uranga, 2010).…”

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Invisible colleges in the adult education research world

Larsson

2010

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Keywords: bibliometrics; publications; adult education; invisible college; academic journals Invisible colleges as actor networksResearchers often have a personal involvement in their work -they are keen on understanding more about the issue they are exploring. The struggle with research questions and the joy and despair of writing is only the beginning of the process aiming at being recognised by some audiences -a process of making research work meaningful (Larsson, 2004). To trace research with a similar interest, but also the researchers behind the research is part of the joy of doing research. The aim is to make your research noticed or more ambitious -to have some mutual contact. The notion of such communication and collaboration between colleagues as creating "invisible colleges"

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Section: Significant Actors: Money and Languagementioning

confidence: 99%

Invisible colleges in the adult education research world

Larsson

2010

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“…Prior studies compared Google Scholar and the Web of Science for specific disciplines, such as Business & Management (Amara & Landry, 2012;Mingers & Lipitakis, 2010), Earth Sciences (Mikki, 2010), Computer Science (Franceschet, 2010), and Astronomy, Environmental Science, Philosophy and Public Health (Wildgaard, 2015). Other studies compared Scopus and the Web of Science for individual universities (Torres-Salinas, Lopez-Cózar, & Jiménez-Contreras, 2009;Vieira & Gomes, 2009) and Scopus and Google Scholar for the Social Sciences in four Spanish universities (Etxebarria & Gomez-Uranga, 2010).…”

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Google Scholar, Scopus and the Web of Science: a longitudinal and cross-disciplinary comparison

2015

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This article aims to provide a systematic and comprehensive comparison of the coverage of the three major bibliometric databases: Google Scholar, Scopus and the Web of Science. Based on a sample of 146 senior academics in five broad disciplinary areas, we therefore provide both a longitudinal and a cross-disciplinary comparison of the three databases.Our longitudinal comparison of eight data points between 2013 and 2015 shows a consistent and reasonably stable quarterly growth for both publications and citations across the three databases. This suggests that all three databases provide sufficient stability of coverage to be used for more detailed cross-disciplinary comparisons.Our cross-disciplinary comparison of the three databases includes four key research metrics (publications, citations, h-index, and hI,annual, an annualised individual h-index) and five major disciplines (Humanities, Social Sciences, Engineering, Sciences and Life Sciences). We show that both the data source and the specific metrics used change the conclusions that can be drawn from cross-disciplinary comparisons. 2Google Scholar, Scopus and the Web of Science: A longitudinal and cross-disciplinary comparison

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“…The Google Scholar citation and bibliometric database in addition to the Publish or Perish software (Harzing ) was then used to collect data on indexed references related to the above two critical geography theories within the specified time frame (1970–2016). The use of Google Scholar as our database is based on findings in Scientometric studies that have compared Google Scholar, Web of Science and Scopus databases for specific disciplines (see Delgado‐López‐Cózar and Repiso‐Caballero ; Wildgaard ; Etxebarria and Gomez‐Uranga ). The studies concluded that the Google Scholar database was comprehensive in database coverage.…”

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Map the gap: alternative visualisations of geographic knowledge production

Walker

Boamah

2017

Geography and Environment

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The main purpose of this paper is to develop a new method for visualizing knowledge production which is attentive to the multiple elements embedded in research processes. In particular, we seek to problematise the representation of scholarship indicators by depicting theoretical contributions and field sites along a spectrum, rather than as discrete points, recursively and relationally constituted. The primary aim of our visualisations is to capture text and context, and codified and tacit knowledge. First, we offer a conventional representation of the location of selected dominant critical theories in Geography, arguing that current methods reinforce 'lopsided' geographies of knowledge production. Normative practices of data visualisation and representation captured in our two examples privilege certain elements centred on authorship and tend to silence the contexts informing research. Second, we borrow the term and method of chromatography, a tool used in the natural sciences but here conceived in its more literal sense of 'writing the separations'. Our 'chromatographical' representations attempt to unbundle components currently absorbed by formal indicators of knowledge production. Such counter mappings attempt to convey the relational aspect of research between countries imbricated in the propagation of exemplary critical geographic theories. We conclude with a discussion of the implications that the disaggregation of value has for scholars and their research.

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Use of Scopus and Google Scholar to measure social sciences production in four major Spanish universities

Cited by 31 publications

References 13 publications

Invisible colleges in the adult education research world

Invisible colleges in the adult education research world

Google Scholar, Scopus and the Web of Science: a longitudinal and cross-disciplinary comparison

Map the gap: alternative visualisations of geographic knowledge production

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