This article aims to explore the effects of doctoral publication requirements on the research output of Ukrainian academics in #Scopus in terms of quantity and impact. In short, changes in doctoral publication requirements did not result in doctoral holders publishing in more impactful journals:

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12463

"Rather than prioritizing the best platform to disseminate their results, the main priority seems to have shifted towards the formal status of journals, such as indexing in #Scopus, which does not necessarily imply influence or global visibility by default":

👉 https://bit.ly/3OXHDvb

#bibliometric #humanities #Ukraine #language

Taking the small victories today: tamed #stata putexcel command with matrices then used pybliometrics to simplify a #scopus #api search. Being a #data consultant is a little of everything.

Fascinating publication in @QSS_ISSI:

:doi: Crossref as a bibliographic discovery tool in the arts and #humanities https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00240

The authors compared the number of citations received by articles according to #Scopus and #Crossref. For English outputs, Scopus presented a minor advantage (+6%) over Crossref more #citations. Crossref retrieved more citations than Scopus for documents in 🇩🇪 (+14%) and 🇫🇷 (+2%), whereas Scopus retrieved more citations for the remaining languages.

Tracy Chen explains the Scopus evaluation process, which includes assessing journal applicants against the COPE/WAME/DOAJ/OASPA Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing: https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.12

#EASEevents #Scopus #Indexing

RT @pippasmart on 🐦
Tayfun Basal from Elsevier
Reporting over 43,000 journals in SCOPUS of which c.27,000 are still live. Lots of detail about selection criteria - key is academic contribution to the field #EASEevents #Scopus

#Publishing international #library and information science #journals: The changing landscape

https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006221090958

#LIS #informationscience #SJR #Scopus #WoS #Diversity #DEI

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Things maybe (slowly) changing in the academic publishing world, I hope

In view of the news posted below a quick reminder [and since I'm 'chief editor', I do the promo here 🙂] this journal is completely free to publish with no APCs or any other costs and is #Scopus listed (check it out: https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/ekke)
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‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/07/too-greedy-mass-walkout-at-global-science-journal-over-unethical-fees?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1683444322

Question for the #AcademicMastodon / #LiteratureReview crowd: Are there any databases like #Scopus or #WebOfScience I could use for a (multi-disciplinary) systematic literature review that are not owned by the absolute worst kind of companies? Preferably with free access as well.

@clementaubert good idea but all I have is just a name e.g. "John Smith", in #SCOPUS for example you get 910 authors with this name ... of course the search can be more specific but it still gives me a lot of authors ... I guess I have to skip this reviewer ... whoever they are ... I hope some of you, computer people, will do something about it ... at some point.

Current Status of Open Access Journals in India: A Bird's Eye View

👉 "The yearly growth of #openaccess journals in India was found to be 22.36%. Among these 306 #OA journals, about 44.11% of #journals are indexed in #Scopus, 34.96% of journals are indexed in #WebofScience(#WoS), and 7.18% of journals with impact factor (#IF) are indexed in #JCR. Almost 74% of open access journals published in #India do not charge Article Processing Charges (#APC)."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0361526X.2023.2183926

#publishing

In the new #preprint, the researchers investigated self-citation trends in 50 countries in the period 1996-2019 (#Scopus data). The results show that for most countries, self-citation has decreased over time, but 12 countries (including my own #Ukraine 😥 ) show different behaviour, with anomalous self-citation trends:

📄 https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08090

"These anomalies should be explained by the aggressive research policies adopted... characterised by direct or indirect #citation incentives" 👏

✅ Ya se encuentran disponibles en nuestro sitio web las Redes de Coautorías Bayesianas de Latinoamérica (fuente #scopus Realizado por Gustavo Landfried y Ariel Salgado. 🙌

👉 http://bayesdelsur.com.ar/comunidad

#Congreso #Bayesiano #Plurinacional

RT @amdelvaz
Ojo al de dato los amantes del #JournalImpactFactor y los cuartiles. La #WoS será la nueva #Scopus, me explico:

Subject area classification of @QSS_ISSI in #Scopus doesn't make much sense. Three of the four subject areas are incorrect! https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21101062805

In 2015/2016 I published a paper about inaccuracies in the Scopus subject area classification https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2016.02.003 https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1511.00735. Unfortunately it seems the problem still hasn't been fixed.

@lariviev @essepuntato

@csmarcum
I don't know how well #Dimensions covers African journals specifically. But it's much more comprehensive overall than #Scopus or #WOS.
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/109513747735792962

Update. #SCOPUS and #WOS are very incomplete at indexing #African journals.
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20230213021356132

"Only 4% of Nigeria’s 294 biomedical journals are indexed in the major indexes, according to the book. 'There is also little overlap between the African journals hosted on #AJOL (African Journals Online) and those indexed in Scopus,' the authors add."

In this research letter 📮 , we draw the attention of the #scientometrics community to the fact that numerous records of non-English publications in the #Scopus and #WoS do not include information about the country of the authors:

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-023-04661-1

These limitations of #citation databases must be taken into account when conducting #bibliometric analysis, especially when comparing the outputs in #SSH at the level of countries.

#language #country #affiliation

Update. #SCOPUS and #WOS are also very incomplete at indexing #preprints. See this new study comparing them to #Dimensions, #Lens, and #EuropePMC.
https://upstream.force11.org/the-preprint-revolution-implications-for-bibliographic-databases/

The preprint revolution - Implications for bibliographic databases https://upstream.force11.org/the-preprint-revolution-implications-for-bibliographic-databases/

Bibliographic databases are increasingly recognizing importance of preprints. How do they index preprints?

@neesjanvaneck and I offer 6 recommendations for preprint indexing. We show to what extent #Dimensions, #EuropePMC, #Lens, #Scopus and #WebOfScience meet these recommendations.

Improving preprint indexing requires joint action by many players in scholarly publishing infrastructure ecosystem!

@cwts