Does the Web of Science Accurately Represent Chinese Scientific Performance?

2018/12/10 by Fei Shu, Shu, Fei, Charles‐Antoine Julien +3 · 1 voice
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) #Web visibility and informetrics #scientometrics and bibliometrics research

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1812.03620

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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to compare Web of Science (WoS) with a Chinese bibliometric database in terms of authors and their performance, demonstrate the extent of the overlap between the two groups of Chinese most productive authors in both international and Chinese bibliometric databases, and determine how different disciplines may affect this overlap. The results of this study indicate that Chinese bibliometric databases, or a combination of WoS and Chinese bibliometric databases, should be used to evaluate Chinese research performance except in few disciplines in which Chinese research performance could be assessed using WoS only.

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• Measuring China’s research output remains a challenge. Does the Web of Science Accurately Represent Chinese Scientific Performance? Compare WoS with 5 Chinese bibliometric databases. https://arxiv [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]

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