Language biases in the coverage of the Science Citation Index and its consequencesfor international comparisons of national research performance

by: Thed Van Leeuwen, Henk Moed, Robert Tijssen, Martijn Visser, Anthony Van Raan

Scientometrics, Vol. 51, No. 1. (26 April 2001), pp. 335-346.

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Abstract Empirical evidence presented in this paper shows that the utmost care must be taken ininterpreting bibliometric data in a comparative evaluation of national research systems. From theresults of recent studies, the authors conclude that the value of impact indicators of researchactivities at the level of an institution or a country strongly depend upon whether one includes orexcludes research publications in SCI covered journals written in other languages than in English.Additional material was gathered to show the distribution of SCI papers among publicationlanguages. Finally, the authors make suggestions for further research on how to deal with this typeof problems in future national research performance studies.

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TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2886055 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2886055 TI - Language biases in the coverage of the Science Citation Index and its consequencesfor international comparisons of national research performance JF - Scientometrics VL - 51 IS - 1 SP - 335 EP - 346 N2 - Abstract  Empirical evidence presented in this paper shows that the utmost care must be taken ininterpreting bibliometric data in a comparative evaluation of national research systems. From theresults of recent studies, the authors conclude that the value of impact indicators of researchactivities at the level of an institution or a country strongly depend upon whether one includes orexcludes research publications in SCI covered journals written in other languages than in English.Additional material was gathered to show the distribution of SCI papers among publicationlanguages. Finally, the authors make suggestions for further research on how to deal with this typeof problems in future national research performance studies. KW - bibliometrie KW - isi KW - sci AU - Van Leeuwen, Thed AU - Moed, Henk AU - Tijssen, Robert AU - Visser, Martijn AU - Van Raan, Anthony PY - 2001/04/26/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1010549719484 ER -

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