Can Microsoft Academic help to assess the citation impact of academic books?

Volume: 12, Issue: 3, Pages: 972 - 984
Published: Aug 1, 2018
Abstract
Despite recent evidence that Microsoft Academic is an extensive source of citation counts for journal articles, it is not known if the same is true for academic books. This paper fills this gap by comparing citations to 16,463 books from 2013 to 2016 in the Book Citation Index (BKCI) against automatically extracted citations from Microsoft Academic and Google Books in 17 fields. About 60% of the BKCI books had records in Microsoft Academic,...
Paper Details
Title
Can Microsoft Academic help to assess the citation impact of academic books?
Published Date
Aug 1, 2018
Volume
12
Issue
3
Pages
972 - 984
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