Inter‐rater reliability of h‐index scores calculated by Web of Science and Scopus for clinical epidemiology scientists

Walker, Benjamin; Alavifard, Sepand; Roberts, Surain; Lanes, Andrea; Ramsay, Tim; Boet, Sylvain

doi:10.1111/hir.12140

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“…The data provided here contribute to the current bibliometric analysis literature by offering insight into the possible differences and similarities between major bibliometric databases in addition to a popular research social network's metrics. To our knowledge, this is the first description comparing the social networking site ResearchGate to other accepted databases; however, other work has similar correlations and differences when comparing Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science in metrics such as H-index, citation growth rates, and number of citations for each paper per author [24][25][26][27]. Similarly to the findings described here, these previous studies have found that Google Scholar provides higher estimates of citation and publication counts, while Web of Science tends to produce significantly lower citation counts [18,24,28].…”

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Three Commonly Utilized Scholarly Databases and a Social Network Site Provide Different, But Related, Metrics of Pharmacy Faculty Publication

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Scholarly productivity is a critical component of pharmacy faculty effort and is used for promotion and tenure decisions. Several databases are available to measure scholarly productivity; however, comparisons amongst these databases are lacking for pharmacy faculty. The objective of this work was to compare scholarly metrics from three commonly utilized databases and a social networking site focused on data from research-intensive colleges of pharmacy and to identify factors associated with database differences. Scholarly metrics were obtained from Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and ResearchGate for faculty from research-intensive (Carnegie Rated R1, R2, or special focus) United States pharmacy schools with at least two million USD in funding from the National Institutes of Health. Metrics were compared and correlations were performed. Regression analyses were utilized to identify factors associated with database differences. Significant differences in scholarly metric values were observed between databases despite the high correlations, suggestive of systematic variation in database reporting. Time since first publication was the most common factor that was associated with database differences. Google Scholar tended to have higher metrics than all other databases, while Web of Science had lower metrics relative to other databases. Differences in reported metrics between databases are apparent, which may be attributable to the time since first publication and database coverage of pharmacy-specific journals. These differences should be considered by faculty, reviewers, and administrative staff when evaluating scholarly performance.

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Three Commonly Utilized Scholarly Databases and a Social Network Site Provide Different, But Related, Metrics of Pharmacy Faculty Publication

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“…Our choice of the Web of Science was determined by data export capabilities of this tool. We would have preferred Scopus (Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands) because of its efficient author identification algorithm ( 21 ). However, we encountered problems applying our methods to files obtained from Scopus.…”

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H-index in medicine is driven by original research

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Aim To investigate the contribution of selected types of articles to h-indices of medical researchers.Methods We used the Web of Science to export the publication records of various members from 26 scientific medical societies (13 European, 13 North American) associated with 13 medical specialties. Those included were presidents (n = 26), heads of randomly chosen committees (n = 52), and randomly selected members of those committees (n = 52). Publications contributing to h-index were categorized as research articles, reviews, guidelines, metaanalyses, or other published work.Results Overall, 3259 items authored by 129 scholars were analyzed. The median h-index was 19.5. The median contribution of research articles to h-index was 84.4%. Researchers in the upper h-index tercile (≥28.5) had a larger share of research articles that contributed to h-index in comparison with those in the lower h-index tercile (≤12.5) (median 87.3% [1st-3rd quartile: 80.0%-93.1%] vs 80.0% [50.0%-88.9%], P = 0.015). We observed an analogous difference with regard to guidelines (1.1% [0%-3.7%] vs 0% [0%-0%], P = 0.007). ConclusionsOriginal research drives h-indices in medicine. Although guidelines contribute to h-indices in medicine, their influence is low. The specific role of randomized controlled trials in building h-index in medicine remains to be assessed.

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“…Spearman's rank-order correlation was applied using SPSS, to evaluate the significant difference between the ranking of communication risk factors, identified in the SLR and quantitative analysis [116]. The correlation value of spearman's coefficient was found to be 0.460, that demonstrated that the ranking gathered from SLR and survey data were reasonably correlated.…”

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An Empirical Study to Investigate the Impact of Communication Issues in GSD in Pakistan’s IT Industry

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Global software development (GSD) practice has been increasingly emerging in the recent few decades in the field of business and software industry. On the one hand, many software development organizations get the benefits of GSD, including but not limited to reduced cost, cheap labor, round the clock working and skilled professionals. On the other hand, these organizations have to face several challenges because of GSD. These challenges pose serious threats to the stability of the GSD projects. Communication between distributed team members is one of the most crucial challenges in GSD. Therefore, the current study aims to identify the communication risk in GSD and also evaluate the impact of these communication risks in GSD environment. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) has been performed to identify all the communication-related issues in GSD. After that, a conceptual framework has been proposed for evaluating the impact of those issues on communication risk in GSD. An empirical evaluation has been performed on data collected from the software organizations of Pakistan working in GSD based environment. The finding of our study demonstrates that geographical distance, socio-temporal distance, socio-culture distance, team member's attitude, team issues, organizational & architectural issue and customer issue have a significant direct impact on communication risk in GSD. The study also shows that there is a significant correlation between findings of SLR and empirical investigation (r = 0.460, P = 0.005). Further, we believe that the results of our research can help to tackle the issues related to communication in GSD. Therefore, it will help to improve the performance of the development activities of GSD organizations.

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Inter‐rater reliability of h‐index scores calculated by Web of Science and Scopus for clinical epidemiology scientists

Cited by 28 publications

References 22 publications

Three Commonly Utilized Scholarly Databases and a Social Network Site Provide Different, But Related, Metrics of Pharmacy Faculty Publication

Three Commonly Utilized Scholarly Databases and a Social Network Site Provide Different, But Related, Metrics of Pharmacy Faculty Publication

H-index in medicine is driven by original research

An Empirical Study to Investigate the Impact of Communication Issues in GSD in Pakistan’s IT Industry

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