The results of bibliometric studies provided by bibliometric research groups, e.g. the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) and the Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance (iFQ), are often used in the process of research assessment. Their databases use Web of Science (WoS) citation data, which they match according to their own matching algorithms – in the case of CW...

We present a novel routine, namely medlineR, based on R language, that enables the user to match data from MEDLINE/PubMed with records indexed in the ISI Web of Science (WoS) database. The matching allows exploiting the rich and controlled vocabulary of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) of MEDLINE/PubMed with additional fields of WoS. The integration provides data (e.g. citation data, list of cit...

Abstract The scientific literature regarding ethnocentrism is quite extensive in the fields of marketing, politics and psychology; however, realm tourism it barely mentioned there even less research. This study intends to fill current bibliometric void terms relationship between tourism. Its main goal display qualitative quantitative analysis research from 1991 until September 2022, which enabl...

The Semantic Web is one of the main efforts aiming to enhance human and machine interaction by representing data in an understandable way for machines to mediate data and services. It is a fast-moving and multidisciplinary field. This study conducts a thorough bibliometric analysis of the field by collecting data from Web of Science (WOS) and Scopus for the period of 1960-2009. It utilizes a to...

The purpose of this study is to explore the metrics comparison between Impact Factor (IF) and SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) for journals indexed in both Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus databases. The study analyses five engineering education journals and seven educational technology journals, which are indexed in both WoS and Scopus. The analysis dates are limited to 2010 through 2011. The results...

BACKGROUND Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar are three major sources which provide h-indices for individual researchers. In this study we aimed to compare the h-indices of the academic pediatricians of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences obtained from the above mentioned sources. METHOD Academic pediatrician who had at least 5 ISI indexed articles entered the study. Information re...

BACKGROUND In this study, the impact of self-citation (Journal and Author) on impact factor of Iranian English Medical journals in two international citation databases, Web of Science (WoS) and Islamic world science citation center (ISC), were compared by citation analysis. METHODS Twelve journals in WoS and 26 journals in ISC databases indexed between the years (2006-2009) were selected and ...