Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The titans of bibliographic information in today's academic world

R Pranckutė - Publications, 2021 - mdpi.com
Nowadays, the importance of bibliographic databases (DBs) has increased enormously, as
they are the main providers of publication metadata and bibliometric indicators universally …

A review of the literature on citation impact indicators

L Waltman - Journal of informetrics, 2016 - Elsevier
Citation impact indicators nowadays play an important role in research evaluation, and
consequently these indicators have received a lot of attention in the bibliometric and …

[HTML][HTML] The state of OA: a large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles

H Piwowar, J Priem, V Larivière, JP Alperin, L Matthias… - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
Despite growing interest in Open Access (OA) to scholarly literature, there is an unmet need
for large-scale, up-to-date, and reproducible studies assessing the prevalence and …

Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature

DS Himmelstein, AR Romero, JG Levernier, TA Munro… - ELife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
The website Sci-Hub enables users to download PDF versions of scholarly articles,
including many articles that are paywalled at their journal's site. Sci-Hub has grown rapidly …

Open is not forever: A study of vanished open access journals

M Laakso, L Matthias, N Jahn - Journal of the Association for …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The preservation of the scholarly record has been a point of concern since the beginning of
knowledge production. With print publications, the responsibility rested primarily with …

Avanços na composição da Methodi Ordinatio para revisão sistemática de literatura

RN Pagani, JL Kovaleski, LMM de Resende - Ciência da Informação, 2017 - revista.ibict.br
O aumento no número das publicações científicas torna o trabalho dos pesquisadores cada
vez mais complexo e extenso no que se refere à seleção de material bibliográfico para o …

A review and extension of the flow experience concept. Insights and directions for Tourism research

NM da Silva deMatos, ES de Sa… - Tourism Management …, 2021 - Elsevier
The flourishing positive psychology field has Flow as a core construct. This systematic
review of 185 articles examines Flow's concept, to analyse it theoretically, methodologically …

A comparative study of the coverage of African journals in Web of Science, Scopus, and CrossRef

TV Asubiaro, S Onaolapo - Journal of the Association for …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This is the first study that evaluated the coverage of journals from Africa in Web of Science,
Scopus, and CrossRef. A list of active journals published in each of the 55 African countries …

Comparison of bibliographic data sources: Implications for the robustness of university rankings

CK Huang, C Neylon, C Brookes-Kenworthy… - Quantitative Science …, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
Universities are increasingly evaluated on the basis of their outputs. These are often
converted to simple and contested rankings with substantial implications for recruitment …

Open Access uptake by universities worldwide

N Robinson-Garcia, R Costas, TN van Leeuwen - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
The implementation of policies promoting the adoption of an open science (OS) culture must
be accompanied by indicators that allow monitoring the uptake of such policies and their …