Dimensions: A competitor to Scopus and the Web of Science?

被引：132
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作者：
Thelwall, Mike [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Wolverhampton, Wulfruna St, Wolverhampton WV1 1LY, W Midlands, England
来源：
JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS | 2018年 / 12卷 / 02期
关键词：
Dimensions; Scopus; Web of Science; Citation analysis; Citation indexing; GOOGLE-SCHOLAR; IMPACT INDICATORS; CITATION ANALYSIS; SUITABILITY; METRICS;
D O I：
10.1016/j.joi.2018.03.006
中图分类号：
TP39 [计算机的应用];
学科分类号：
081203 ; 0835 ;
摘要：
Dimensions is a partly free scholarly database launched by Digital Science in January 2018. Dimensions includes journal articles and citation counts, making it a potential new source of impact data. This article explores the value of Dimensions from an impact assessment perspective with an examination of Food Science research 2008-2018 and a random sample of 10,000 Scopus articles from 2012. The results include high correlations between citation counts from Scopus and Dimensions (0.96 by narrow field in 2012) as well as similar average counts. Almost all Scopus articles with DOIs were found in Dimensions (97% in 2012). Thus, the scholarly database component of Dimensions seems to be a plausible alternative to Scopus and the Web of Science for general citation analyses and for citation data in support of some types of research evaluations. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码：430 / 435
页数：6
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