Nowadays, the importance of bibliographic databases (DBs) has increased enormously, as they are main providers publication metadata and bibliometric indicators universally used both for research assessment practices performing daily tasks. Because reliability these tasks firstly depends on data source, all users DBs should be able to choose most suitable one. Web Science (WoS) Scopus two DBs. T...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the results of recent experiments in determining the h-index at the country level for the 10 Ibero-American countries of South America. Design/methodology/approach – The three citation index components (Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index) of the Web of Science system of Thomson-Reuters and...

To reap the potential of the Web, mechanisms are required to locate and use available, suitable resources. In [1], a two-level protocol was introduced for that purpose. A first protocol allows the selection of an appropriate version of WOS resources, the WOS Request Protocol (WOSRP). Another protocol, the WOS Protocol (WOSP), allows to locate and use distributed resources, such as services, mac...

The area of researching folksonomies is still in development, so theoretical perspective and research methods are still being defined. This study conducts a webometric and bibliometric analysis of the folksonomy research in the Library and Information science (LIS) field by collecting data from Web of Science (WOS), SCOPUS and Google Scholar in July 2014. It utilizes a total of 346 papers with ...

WEB OF SCIENCE Data for this project are drawn from Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science database, covering the Science Citation Index Expanded, the Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index. All articles from 2008 to 2012 were included in the analysis. The raw data were transformed into a relational database on an SQL server, hosted at Observatoire des sciences et de...

Background: One of the most important criteria of the development of countries at the national and international levels is the survey of scientific productions indexed in authentic databases. This study aimed to analyze the scientific productions by Iranian researchers on gastroenterology and hepatology in the Web of Science (WOS) database. Methods: This applied study used a scientometric appr...

Citation analysis of documents retrieved from the Medline database (at the Web of Knowledge) has been possible only on a case-by-case basis. A technique is here developed for citation analysis in batch mode using both Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) at the Web of Knowledge and the Science Citation Index at the Web of Science. This freeware routine is applied to the case of “Brugada Syndrome,” a...