Characterisation of academic journals in the digital age

Gu, Xin; Blackmore, Karen

doi:10.1007/s11192-016-2219-4

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“…However, there are studies that yield different results. Gu and Blackmore [48] find that, of a sample of 41,787 refereed academic journals from all disciplines covered by the Ulrichs directory, only 20.8% (10,354) were to be found in GSM, a lower amount than those that were found in SJR (32%, 15,911).…”

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Google Scholar as a Data Source for Research Assessment

2019

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The launch of Google Scholar (GS) marked the beginning of a revolution in the scientific information market. This search engine, unlike traditional databases, automatically indexes information from the academic web. Its ease of use, together with its wide coverage and fast indexing speed, have made it the first tool most scientists currently turn to when they need to carry out a literature search. Additionally, the fact that its search results were accompanied from the beginning by citation counts, as well as the later development of secondary products which leverage this citation data (such as Google Scholar Metrics and Google Scholar Citations), made many scientists wonder about its potential as a source of data for bibliometric analyses. The goal of this chapter is to lay the foundations for the use of GS as a supplementary source (and in some disciplines, arguably the best alternative) for scientific evaluation. First, we present a general overview of how GS works. Second, we present empirical evidences about its main characteristics (size, coverage, and growth rate). Third, we carry out a systematic analysis of the main limitations this search engine presents as a tool for the evaluation of scientific performance. Lastly, we discuss the main differences between GS and other more traditional bibliographic databases in light of the correlations found between their citation data. We conclude that Google Scholar presents a broader view of the academic world because it has brought to light a great amount of sources that were not previously visible.

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Section: Discipline Coveragementioning

confidence: 96%

Google Scholar as a Data Source for Research Assessment

2019

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“…Each has developed its own metrics to measure the value or quality of academic papers or academic journals. Multiple studies show that Scopus has the widest coverage in peer-reviewed scholarly journals and publications (Gu & Blackmore, 2017;Jacso, 2005). A recent study by Larsen and von Ins (2010) shows that the Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) provided by WoS has a decreasing coverage.…”

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Quantitative study on Australian academic science

Blackmore

2017

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As at the end of 2009, 50 million scholarly papers were in existence, and changes in the global higher education sector are seeing this number grow rapidly. With the impact of university ranking schemes, dramatic changes have occurred in the academic publication system; both the number of publications, and the number of scholars, are increasing rapidly. In this research, we conduct a focused study on the quantitative relationships in Australian academic science. Sample data is selected from three institutions, representing three types of universities in Australia: a leading university, a middle-tier university, and a non-comprehensive university. For our analysis, bibliometric data for 32,056 scholars and 353,334 publications are downloaded. The results show that varying growth rates for scholars (5.6%, 6.1%, and 7.7%) and journal publications (6.7%, 7.4%, and 9.7%) for the leading university, the middle-tier university, and the non-comprehensive university respectively. We also evaluate how scholarly publications differ across these three Australian universities types from six aspects: average number of publications per scholar, percentage of first-authored publications, collaboration pattern, average SJR score of publishing journals, percentage of Quartile category of publishing journals, and average citation per publication. Lastly, we consider how the scholarship life-cycle varies in Australian universities in terms of publishing age, thus establishing the quantitative relationship between scholarship life-cycle and publishing performance in Australian universities.

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“…As reported by Gu and Blackmore (2017), different sets of journal indicators are available from different databases, making direct comparisons difficult. Data consolidation was done manually.…”

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A synthesis of the characteristics of current national, regional and international forestry journals

Peteh¹

2020

Silva Fenn.

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One of the main objectives of the International Union of Forest Research Organizationâs WP 9.01.06 (Forest Science Publishing) is to clarify the range of forestry-related journals in the context of the overall objective of supporting authors and readers to deepen their knowledge of forestry. This study extended an earlier list of forestry journals using the ISSN database and the CAB abstracts. The study included 451 journal titles, each categorized by ISSN, publisher, language of publication, website, and geographical coverage (i.e. national, regional, international, or three mixed intermediate categories), as well as information on indexing in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, and SherpaRomeo. The included journals are published in 61 countries and in 32 different languages. Those categorized as international are mostly published in English. 21.7% of the journals are indexed in Web of Science and 34.1% in Scopus. 95.6% of the titles are published online or in the print+online publishing model, but only 57.0% of the titles are published in Open Access, of which only 33.7% are indexed in DOAJ.

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Characterisation of academic journals in the digital age

Cited by 21 publications

References 42 publications

Google Scholar as a Data Source for Research Assessment

Google Scholar as a Data Source for Research Assessment

Quantitative study on Australian academic science

A synthesis of the characteristics of current national, regional and international forestry journals

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