scholarly journals Multiple Databases are Needed to Search the Journal Literature on Computer Science

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
Giovanna Badia
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Science Journal ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Journal Literature ◽  
Bibliographic Records

A Review of: Cavacini, A. (2015). What is the best database for computer science journal articles? Scientometrics 102(3): 2059-2071. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-014-1506-1 Objective – To compare the coverage of computer science literature in four bibliographic databases by checking the indexing of a selection of journal articles. The purpose of this comparison was to identify the most comprehensive database in computer science and determine whether more than one database is needed to search for articles on computer science topics. Design – Comparative database evaluation using citation analysis. Setting – Computer science journal literature found within the INSPEC, Scopus, Web of Science, and DBLP databases. Subjects – 1,135 computer science journal articles published by an Italian university’s researchers from 1979 to 2014. Methods – The University of Milan’s institutional repository (AIR), containing publications authored by the university’s researchers, was searched in October 2014 for journal articles that were assigned the subject heading “informatica” (the word for computer science in Italian). The author then searched the titles of these journal articles in each of the databases to check whether they were indexed. For articles indexed in all four databases, the author also examined the quality of the bibliographic records by looking for the presence of 20 elements (e.g., the “cited by” option, ranking of search results, precision of results, etc.) in each database’s record. These overlapping articles were also searched in Google Scholar to help compare the quality of the records between the databases. Main Results – Scopus indexed 75.86% of the journal articles found in AIR, Web of Science indexed 64.49%, DBLP indexed 61.15%, and INSPEC indexed 53.39%. Web of Science and INSPEC put together covered 74.80% of the articles, which is comparable to the amount indexed by Scopus. DBLP and Scopus contained the highest number of references to articles that were not found in the other databases, about 4% each. Out of the 1,135 journal articles, 391 (34.45%) were indexed by all four databases, with Web of Science scoring the highest for providing the best quality bibliographic records for these articles. Conclusions – According to the author, the findings showed that INSPEC, Scopus, Web of Science, and DBLP “complemented each other, in a way that neither one could replace the other” (p. 2068) when searching the computer science literature. While there was overlap between databases, they each also contained unique articles.

scholarly journals Resources and Capabilities from Their Very Outset: a Bibliometric Comparison Between Scopus and the Web of Science

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mileidy Alvarez-Melgarejo ◽  
Martha L. Torres-Barreto
Keyword(s):  
Web Of Science ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Bibliometric Method ◽  
Search Results ◽  
Resources And Capabilities ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Web

The bibliometric method has proven to be a powerful tool for the analysis of scientific publications, in such a way that allows rating the quality of the knowledge generating process, as well as its impact on firm´s environment. This article presents a comparison between two powerful bibliographic databases in terms of their coverage and the usefulness of their content. The comparison starts with a subject associated to the relationship between resources and capabilities. The outcomes show that the search results differ between both databases. The Web Of Science (WOS), has a greater coverage than SCOPUS has.  It also has a greater impact in terms of most cited authors and publications. The search results in the WOS yield articles from 2001, while Scopus yields articles from 1976, however, some of the latter are inconsistent with the topic being searched. The analysis points to a lack of studies regarding resources as foundations of firm´s capabilities; as a result, new research on this field is suggested.

scholarly journals The prevalence and impact of university affiliation discrepancies between four bibliographic databases – Scopus, Web of Science, Dimensions, and Microsoft Academic

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-47
Author(s):  
Philip J. Purnell
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Bibliometric Data ◽  
Digital Object ◽  
Manual Examination ◽  
Microsoft Academic ◽  
University Affiliation

Abstract Research managers benchmarking universities against international peers face the problem of affiliation disambiguation. Different databases have taken separate approaches to this problem and discrepancies exist between them. Bibliometric data sources typically conduct a disambiguation process that unifies variant institutional names and those of its sub-units so that researchers can then search all records from that institution using a single unified name. This study examined affiliation discrepancies between Scopus, Web of Science, Dimensions, and Microsoft Academic for 18 Arab universities over a five-year period. We confirmed that digital object identifiers (DOIs) are suitable for extracting comparable scholarly material across databases and quantified the affiliation discrepancies between them. A substantial share of records assigned to the selected universities in any one database were not assigned to the same university in another. The share of discrepancy was higher in the larger databases, Dimensions and Microsoft Academic. The smaller, more selective databases, Scopus and especially Web of Science tended to agree to a greater degree with affiliations in the other databases. Manual examination of affiliation discrepancies showed they were caused by a mixture of missing affiliations, unification differences, and assignation of records to the wrong institution. Peer Review https://publons.com/publon/10.1162/qss_a_00175

A Genre-Based Study of Algerian EFL Writers' Academic Texts

2020 ◽  
pp. 175-198
Author(s):  
Touria Drid
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Analytic Model ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Genre Awareness

To disseminate academic knowledge, scholars publish their research in the form of journal articles, whose content is sketched in an abstract with a conventional rhetorical organization. This chapter reports a study that aims to examine and assess the organization of research article abstracts in terms of move units. The move structure of 42 abstracts of English research papers written by Algerian researchers and published in one of the Algerian language journals was scrutinized. The study follows Hyland's analytic model, comprising five rhetorical moves: introduction, purpose, method, product, and conclusion. The findings of the study indicate that the writers predominantly employ the pattern introduction-purpose, with some inconsistencies in using the other moves. On the basis of identifying the existing deviations from the predictable generic arrangement of abstracts, the importance of raising genre awareness among EFL writers has been highlighted as a means to enhance the quality of published discourse.

scholarly journals PROBLEMS OF SHARING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORDS OF THE ELECTRONIC LIBRARY CATALOG

2021 ◽  
pp. 66-71
Author(s):  
A. A. Stukalova
Keyword(s):  
Information Resources ◽  
The Other ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Labor Costs ◽  
Electronic Library ◽  
Electronic Catalogs ◽  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
The One ◽  
Subsequent Improvement

The issues of reducing time and labor costs for document processing, expanding and improving the quality of bibliographic records (BR), library products and services continue to be actual in Russian libraries. To accomplish these tasks, various projects of corporate library interaction are being implemented, aimed at solving the issues of acquisition, cataloguing, creation of central and distributed catalogs and user services. Library cooperation in cataloguing allows providing libraries with the possibility of mutual records use with their subsequent improvement and promotes unification of BR elements. The purpose of the article is to identify the problems that hinder the effectiveness of creating and using electronic catalogue BR in SPSTL SB RAS. It also shows the difficulties faced by the library cataloguers when borrowing records from the Russian Book Chamber database (RBC DB). It is noted that by borrowing records from the RBC DB, SPSTL SB RAS provides an opportunity to use its EC to the libraries of the research institutions of SB RAS (SRI of SB RAS). The article also demonstrates the experience of the Unified Automation Center (UAC) of SPSTL SB RAS, which contains information resources of libraries of the research institutions of SB RAS. Electronic catalogs and databases of these libraries are presented on the website of SPSTL SB RAS in the «Electronic catalogs and databases of the Library System of the research institutions of SB RAS». The conclusions are made that when borrowing records from the library electronic catalogs, the question of their quality and uniformity is left open, using the technology of corporate cataloguing brings significant advantages to the work of libraries. On the one hand, it allows to save labor and time resources by ready-made records of the RBC DB, on the other hand – to provide an opportunity to use BR by other libraries, while advertising their own information resources.

scholarly journals Database Coverage for Research in Management Information Systems

2006 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Chapman ◽  
Paul Brothers
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Management Information Systems ◽  
Applied Science ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Management Information ◽  
Business Source Premier

This study examines the database coverage of management information systems (MIS) journals and journal articles referenced by MIS researchers. Lists of titles and references were checked for coverage in twelve databases representing a variety of vendors: five multidisciplinary databases, four business databases, and three computer science or applied science databases. The best coverage of MIS journals is found in ABI/INFORM Global and Business Source Premier. The best coverage of articles referenced by MIS scholars is offered by the same two databases, although Business Source Premier offers significantly more full text. Business Source Premier and Web of Science provide the best coverage for any pair of the databases.

scholarly journals Coccydynia – the efficacy of available treatment options: a systematic review protocol

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mads Moss Jensen ◽  
Gustav Østerheden Andersen ◽  
Stefan Milosevic ◽  
Mikkel Østerheden Andersen ◽  
Leah Carreon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Data Extraction ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Painful Condition ◽  
Review Protocol ◽  
Background Context

Abstract Background context: Coccydynia is a painful condition which may severely impair quality of life in affected patients. Treatment of coccydynia is a field of interest with limited knowledge. The objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of current available treatments for coccydynia in adults, by systematically reviewing existing original peer-reviewed publications according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) guidelines.Methods/design: A systematic literature search will be conducted in EMBASE.com, PubMed.com, Scopus and Web of Science bibliographic databases from their inception to January 17th, 2020, alongside a search for published studies and Epubs ahead of print in journals with relevance to spine surgery. Studies eligible for inclusion are original peer-reviewed papers addressing treatment of chronic coccydynia in adults. The articles will be screened by two authors independently, involving a third author in case of disagreement. Quality assessment and data extraction will be conducted using Covidence software. A meta-analysis will be conducted given that data is suitable.Discussion: This systematic review and meta-analysis may contribute to the existing knowledge on the efficacy of treatment options for coccydynia.Systematic review registration: PROSPERO submission-ID: 166379

scholarly journals The Usefulness of Data from Web of Science and Scopus Databases for Analyzing the State of a Scientific Discipline. The Case of Library and Information Science

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (2a) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Osiński
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
The State ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Quality Of Data ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Scientific Disciplines

Purpose/Thesis: Many countries increasingly use bibliographic databases while devising new scientific policies to analyze and diagnose the state of a scientific discipline. Previous studies on the suitability of data from Web of Science and Scopus databases for this purpose gave ambiguous results. Their authors did not always account for an important issue – the quality of data from these databases. The aim of the article is to analyze the quality of data downloaded in an automated manner from the resources of the mentioned databases.Approach/Methods: The author used a qualitative method of data verification which consisted of automatic acquisition of data about journals from the Web of Science and Scopus databases, and then in their qualitative analysis. The analysis consisted of a comparison of data on journals repre­senting of library and information science (LIS) retrieved from both databases and of the comparison between the qualitative data taken from the studied databases and the data from other, domain focused bibliographic databases; of comparing the acquired data with the information available on the websites of indexed journals and of the comparison of the method used by the producers of the abovementioned databases used to classify the journals as related of LIS, with the thematic scope of the discipline, as agreed upon by scholars.Results and conclusions: It was found that in the case of the examined discipline, automated data acquiring poses a risk of obtaining a low credibility set of data. Most problems are caused by the incompleteness of data and errors in disciplinary classifying journals, articles and authors.Originality/Value: It was shown that, contrary to the claims of the decision-makers of Polish science, in its present form, the studied bibliographic databases have only negligible usefulness for monitoring the state and development tendencies of LIS. Methodological problems created by both databases, presented in this article, may also have an impact on generating a reliable and objective picture of other scientific disciplines. The changes in the sphere of the functioning of WoS and Scopus, apparent for several years, have not dealt with the already existing problems and inconveniences.

What is the best database for computer science journal articles?

2014 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. 2059-2071 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Cavacini
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Science Journal ◽  
Journal Articles

scholarly journals Systematic Review on Resting-State EEG for Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis and Progression Assessment

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymundo Cassani ◽  
Mar Estarellas ◽  
Rodrigo San-Martin ◽  
Francisco J. Fraga ◽  
Tiago H. Falk
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Resting State ◽  
Neurodegenerative Disorder ◽  
Disease Diagnosis ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Journal Articles

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that accounts for nearly 70% of the more than 46 million dementia cases estimated worldwide. Although there is no cure for AD, early diagnosis and an accurate characterization of the disease progression can improve the quality of life of AD patients and their caregivers. Currently, AD diagnosis is carried out using standardized mental status examinations, which are commonly assisted by expensive neuroimaging scans and invasive laboratory tests, thus rendering the diagnosis time consuming and costly. Notwithstanding, over the last decade, electroencephalography (EEG) has emerged as a noninvasive alternative technique for the study of AD, competing with more expensive neuroimaging tools, such as MRI and PET. This paper reports on the results of a systematic review on the utilization of resting-state EEG signals for AD diagnosis and progression assessment. Recent journal articles obtained from four major bibliographic databases were analyzed. A total of 112 journal articles published from January 2010 to February 2018 were meticulously reviewed, and relevant aspects of these papers were compared across articles to provide a general overview of the research on this noninvasive AD diagnosis technique. Finally, recommendations for future studies with resting-state EEG were presented to improve and facilitate the knowledge transfer among research groups.

Information Quality in Bibliographic Databases

2021 ◽  
Vol 2/2021 (4) ◽  
pp. 68-83
Author(s):  
Sergiusz Łuczak ◽  
Wioletta Jachym
Keyword(s):  
Relative Error ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Quality Of Information ◽  
Significant Underestimation

The aim of the article is to analyze the quality of information contained in the bibliographic databases Web of Science and Scopus. The results of the presented study prove that due to errors existing in the analyzed databases, there are often cases of significant underestimation of bibliometric parameters. In extreme cases, the relative error of a given parameter exceeds several dozen per cent, which concerns both individual authors and entire scientific journals. The publication presents a discussion on sources of errors in bibliographic databases and methods of their effective search and correction.

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