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    Some measures for comparing citation databases

    Bar-Ilan, J. and Levene, Mark and Lin, A. (2007) Some measures for comparing citation databases. Journal of Informetrics 1 (1), 26 - 34. ISSN 1751-1577.

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    Abstract

    Citation analysis was traditionally based on data from the ISI Citation indexes. Now with the appearance of Scopus, and with the free citation tool Google Scholar methods and measures are need for comparing these tools. In this paper we propose a set of measures for computing the similarity between rankings induced by ordering the retrieved publications in decreasing order of the number of citations as reported by the specific tools. The applicability of these measures is demonstrated and the results show high similarities between the rankings of the ISI Web of Science and Scopus and lower similarities between Google Scholar and the other tools.

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    Item Type: Article
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Similarity measures, rankings, citation databases
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
    Research Centres and Institutes: Birkbeck Knowledge Lab
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 08 Aug 2011 09:52
    Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:30
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/3981

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