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20172024
most citedReference Coverage Analysis of OpenAlex compared to Web of Science and Scopus

131 citations

17 papers

cs.DL2024★ 20 cited

Analysis of the Publication and Document Types in OpenAlex, Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed and Semantic Scholar

Nick Haupka, Jack H. Culbert, Alexander Schniedermann +2

The assignment of document and publication types in scholarly databases plays an important role in bibliometrics, for example in decision-making or university rankings. However, sc…

econ.GN2024★ 24 cited

The Costs of Competition in Distributing Scarce Research Funds

Gerald Schweiger, Adrian Barnett, Peter van den Besselaar +5

Research funding systems are not isolated systems - they are embedded in a larger scientific system with an enormous influence on the system. This paper aims to analyze the allocat…

cs.DL2024★ 131 cited

Reference Coverage Analysis of OpenAlex compared to Web of Science and Scopus

Jack Culbert, Anne Hobert, Najko Jahn +4

OpenAlex is a promising open source of scholarly metadata, and competitor to established proprietary sources, such as the Web of Science and Scopus. As OpenAlex provides its data f…

cs.DL2023★ 10 cited

Data inaccuracy quantification and uncertainty propagation for bibliometric indicators

Paul Donner

This study introduces an approach to estimate the uncertainty in bibliometric indicator values that is caused by data errors. This approach utilizes Bayesian regression models, est…

cs.CY2022★ 10 cited

The Young and the Old, the Fast and the Slow: A Large-Scale Study of Productivity Classes and Rank Advancement

Marek Kwiek, Wojciech Roszka

We examined a large population of Polish science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) scientists (N = 16,083) to study rank advancement and productivity. We u…

cs.DB2022★ 4 cited

NoSQL security: can my data-driven decision-making be influenced from outside?

Anastasija Nikiforova, Artjoms Daskevics, Otmane Azeroual

Nowadays, there are billions interconnected devices forming Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) ecosystems. With an increasing…

cs.AI2022

GRAPHYP: A Scientific Knowledge Graph with Manifold Subnetworks of Communities. Detection of Scholarly Disputes in Adversarial Information Routes

Renaud Fabre, Otmane Azeroual, Patrice Bellot +2

The cognitive manifold of published content is currently expanding in all areas of science. However, Scientific Knowledge Graphs (SKGs) only provide poor pictures of the adversaria…

cs.DB2021★ 18 cited

Implementation and user acceptance of research information systems

Otmane Azeroual, Joachim Schöpfel, Gunter Saake

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present empirical evidence on the implementation, acceptance and quality-related aspects of research information systems (RIS) in academic in…

cs.DL2021★ 28 cited

A study of referencing changes in preprint-publication pairs across multiple fields

Aliakbar Akbaritabar, Dimity Stephen, Flaminio Squazzoni

Manuscripts have a complex development process with multiple influencing factors. Reconstructing this process is difficult without large-scale, comparable data on different version…

cs.DL2020★ 14 cited

Funding CRISPR: Understanding the role of government and philanthropic institutions in supporting academic research within the CRISPR innovation system

David Fajardo-Ortiz, Stefan Hornbostel, Maywa Montenegro-de-Wit +1

CRISPR/Cas has the potential to revolutionize medicine, agriculture, and biology. Understanding the trajectory of CRISPR research, how it is influenced and who pays for it, is an e…

cs.DL2020★ 11 cited

Berlin: A Quantitative View of the Structure of Institutional Scientific Collaborations

Aliakbar Akbaritabar

This paper examines the structure of scientific collaborations in a large European metropolitan area. It aims to identify strategic coalitions among organizations in Berlin as a sp…

cs.DC2019★ 1 cited

Research Intelligence (CRIS) and the Cloud: A Review

Otmane Azeroual, Joachim Schöpfel

The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of the cloud technology on current research information systems (CRIS). Based on an overview of published literature and on empir…

cs.CY2019★ 39 cited

The Effects of Using Business Intelligence Systems on an Excellence Management and Decision-Making Process by Start-Up Companies: A Case Study

Otmane Azeroual, Horst Theel

The rapid increase in data volumes in companies has meant that momentous and comprehensive information gathering is barely possible by manual means. Business intelligence solutions…

cs.DB2019★ 9 cited

Improving the data quality in the research information systems

Otmane Azeroual, Mohammad Abuosba

In order to introduce an integrated research information system, this will provide scientific institutions with the necessary information on research activities and research result…

cs.DB2019★ 58 cited

Data Quality Measures and Data Cleansing for Research Information Systems

Otmane Azeroual, Gunter Saake, Mohammad Abuosba

The collection, transfer and integration of research information into different research Information systems can result in different data errors that can have a variety of negative…

cs.DL2018★ 6 cited

The dynamically changing publication universe as a reference point in national impact evaluation: A counterfactual case study on the Chinese publication growth

Stephan Stahlschmidt, Sybille Hinze

National bibliometric performance is commonly measured via relative impact indicators which appraise absolute national values through a global environment. Consequenty the resultin…

stat.AP2017★ 5 cited

Search for Evergreens in Science: A Functional Data Analysis

Ruizhi Zhang, Jian Wang, Yajun Mei

Evergreens in science are papers that display a continual rise in annual citations without decline, at least within a sufficiently long time period. Aiming to better understand eve…