Large-scale analysis of the accuracy of the journal classification systems of Web of Science and Scopus

Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 347 - 364
Published: May 1, 2016
Abstract
Journal classification systems play an important role in bibliometric analyses. The two most important bibliographic databases, Web of Science and Scopus, each provide a journal classification system. However, no study has systematically investigated the accuracy of these classification systems. To examine and compare the accuracy of journal classification systems, we define two criteria on the basis of direct citation relations between journals...
Paper Details
Title
Large-scale analysis of the accuracy of the journal classification systems of Web of Science and Scopus
Published Date
May 1, 2016
Volume
10
Issue
2
Pages
347 - 364
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