Entanglement of bibliographic database content and data collection practices: Rethinking data integration using findings from a European study

Sīle, Linda

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2019.01.094

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“…First, data collection principles may differ from one database to another, and they may change over time. Secondly, publication types aimed at other audiences than an academic audience are typically underreported (Puuska, 2014;Sīle, 2019). Comparing publication type frequencies between the universities gives an indication that this may be the case in the present data too.…”

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Publishing patterns in Pharmacy

Sandgren

2021

NJLIS

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Pharmacy is a multidisciplinary research field that combines natural sciences, health sciences and social sciences to study drugs and pharmaceutical preparations from multiple perspectives. The study explores publishing patterns in pharmacy via bibliometric methods, that is statistical methods applied to study scientific literature. Earlier bibliometric studies focusing on pharmacy have used data from the international citation databases Web of Science and Scopus. In most of these studies, pharmacy has been operationalized by focusing on journals categorized as pharmacy journals. This study provides a new approach to the study of publishing patterns, by using data from institutional Current Research Information Systems (CRIS), and by using pharmacy organizations as the basis of operationalization of pharmacy. It seeks to provide a more comprehensive picture of publishing patterns, since the data covers all publication types used in pharmacy and is not limited to pharmacy journals. The objective of this study is thus to explore whether the selection of databases and operationalization of the discipline affects the results concerning publishing patterns in pharmacy. The results obtained in this study are very similar to earlier studies utilizing international databases. However, the results show that pharmacy researchers also publish in national languages, and that there are several national journals amongst the core journals that are not covered by the international databases. The multidisciplinary nature of pharmacy can be seen in the wide range of journals in which pharmacy researchers publish their articles.

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confidence: 56%

Publishing patterns in Pharmacy

Sandgren

2021

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“…A useful extension would be to include publishing from institutes, the private sector, and independent researchers. That would entail using other sources, such as Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic, or browsing known SQP publishers' web sites (Sīle, 2019).…”

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Methodological considerations for identifying questionable publishing in a national context: The case of Swedish Higher Education Institutions

Nelhans

Bodin

2020

Quantitative Science Studies

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The overall scope of this study is an attempt at a methodological framework for matching publication lists at the national level against a combined set of blacklists for questionable publishing. Using the total verified set of publications from Swedish Higher Education Institutions (HEI) as a case, we examined the number, distribution, and proportion of publishing in questionable journals at the national level. Journal publication data was extracted from the national SwePub database and matched against three curated blacklists of questionable publishing. For the period 2012–2017, we identified 1,743 published papers in blacklisted journals, equal to an average of 0.5–0.9% of the total publications from Swedish HEIs. There was high variability between different HEI categories, with more established universities at the lower end of the spectrum, while university colleges and new universities had a much higher proportion (∼2%). There was a general decreasing trend during the study period (ρ = 0.83) for all categories of HEIs. The study presents a methodology to identify questionable publishing in academia that could be applied to other countries with similar infrastructure. Thus, it could serve as a starting point for the development of a general framework for cross-national quantitative estimation of questionable publishing.

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“…In this study, we tackled several limitations related to national databases, which were identified and conceptualised in previous studies [ 34 , 42 , 43 ]. One of the most important limitations of the study lies in cross-country comparison of the data on scientific disciplines determined by different classification methods: cognitive (applied in databases in the Czech Republic, Norway, and Slovakia) or organisational (applied in databases in Poland and Flanders).…”

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Journal article publishing in the social sciences and humanities: A comparison of Web of Science coverage for five European countries

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This study compares publication pattern dynamics in the social sciences and humanities in five European countries. Three are Central and Eastern European countries that share a similar cultural and political heritage (the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland). The other two are Flanders (Belgium) and Norway, representing Western Europe and the Nordics, respectively. We analysed 449,409 publications from 2013–2016 and found that, despite persisting differences between the two groups of countries across all disciplines, publication patterns in the Central and Eastern European countries are becoming more similar to those in their Western and Nordic counterparts. Articles from the Central and Eastern European countries are increasingly published in journals indexed in Web of Science and also in journals with the highest citation impacts. There are, however, clear differences between social science and humanities disciplines, which need to be considered in research evaluation and science policy.

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Entanglement of bibliographic database content and data collection practices: Rethinking data integration using findings from a European study

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

Publishing patterns in Pharmacy

Publishing patterns in Pharmacy

Methodological considerations for identifying questionable publishing in a national context: The case of Swedish Higher Education Institutions

Journal article publishing in the social sciences and humanities: A comparison of Web of Science coverage for five European countries

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