Tale of Three Databases: The Implication of Coverage Demonstrated for a Sample Query

Autor: Judit Bar-Ilan
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, Vol 3 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2504-0537
DOI: 10.3389/frma.2018.00006
Popis: Coverage is an important criterion when evaluating information systems. This exploratory study investigates this issue by submitting the same query to different databases relevant to the query topic. Data were retrieved from three databases: ACM Digital Library, Web of Science (with the Proceedings Citation Index) and Scopus. The search phrase was “information retrieval,” publication years were between 2013 and 2016. Altogether 8,699 items were retrieved, out of which 5,306 (61%) items were retrieved by a single database only, and only 977 (11%) items were located in all three databases. These 977 items were further analyzed: citation counts retrieved from the three databases were compared. Citations were also compared to altmetric data of these publications, collected from Mendeley.
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