15 pages tagged "bibliometric accuracy"

How to become an author of ESI Highly Cited Papers?
06 Feb 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Documents how unscrupulous predatory open access journals can distort citation counts

Working with ISI data: Beware of categorisation problems
06 Feb 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
ISI appears to regularly misclassify journal articles containing original research into the "review" or "proceedings paper" category, rather than assigning them to the appropriate "article" category.

Is Google Scholar flawless? Of course not!
01 Oct 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reviews the major limitations of Google Scholar

Sacrifice a little accuracy for a lot more comprehensive coverage
06 Feb 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Invited prologue for a book on Google Scholar

Health warning: Might contain multiple personalities
25 May 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Shows how a lack of name disambiguation leads to serious distortion of the Essential Science Indicators

How to get listed on the ESI ranking of highly cited authors
08 Sep 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Illustrates how tongue-in-cheek papers might be taken seriously by naive (or desparate) academics

Web of Science: How to be robbed of 10 years of citations in one week!
15 Feb 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Shows how I was "robbed" of citations through inaccurate publication matching in the Web of Science

Bank error in your favour? How to gain 3,000 citations in a week
21 Sep 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Shows how I gained 3,000 citations in a week through inaccurate publication matching in the Web of Science

How to merge “stray citation" records?
10 Apr 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Explains how to merge different occurrences of a paper in Publish or Perish

Accuracy: Selective merge
06 Feb 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Publish or Perish tutorial

Accuracy: Merge duplicates
06 Feb 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Publish or Perish tutorial

Accuracy: Check year
06 Feb 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Publish or Perish tutorial

Accuracy: PoP vs GS for journals
06 Feb 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Publish or Perish tutorial

Accuracy
06 Feb 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Publish or Perish tutorial

An Australian "productivity boom"? ... or maybe just a database expansion?
24 Jul 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Shows how difficult longitudinal bibliometric analyses are when database coverage changes