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cs.DL2025★ 14 cited

Red alert: Millions of "homeless" publications in Scopus should be resettled

Weishu Liu, Haifeng Wang

Scopus is increasingly regarded as a high-quality and reliable data source for research and evaluation of scientific and scholarly activity. However, a puzzling phenomenon has been…

cs.DL2023★ 61 cited

Web of Science Core Collection's coverage expansion:The forgotten Arts & Humanities Citation Index?

Weishu Liu, Rong Ni, Guangyuan Hu

The expansion of Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) over the recent years has partially accounted for the "norm" of growth of research output in many bibliometric analysis stud…

cs.DL2022★ 12 cited

Citation advantage of COVID-19 related publications

Weishu Liu, Xuping Huangfu, Haifeng Wang

With the global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists from various disciplines responded quickly to this historical public health emergency. The sudden boom of COVID-19 relat…

cs.DL2021★ 89 cited

Caveats for the use of Web of Science Core Collection in old literature retrieval and historical bibliometric analysis

Weishu Liu

By using publications from Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC), Fosso Wamba and his colleagues published an interesting and comprehensive paper in Technological Forecasting and…

cs.DL2020★ 65 cited

A matter of time: publication dates in Web of Science Core Collection

Weishu Liu

Web of Science Core Collection, one of the most authoritative bibliographic databases, is widely used in academia to track high-quality research. This database has begun to index o…

cs.DL2020★ 2 cited

China's SCI-indexed publications: facts, feelings, and future directions

Weishu Liu

Purpose:In relation to the boom in China's SCI-indexed publications, this opinion piece examines this phenomenon and looks at future possible directions for the reform of China's r…

cs.DL2020★ 52 cited

Comparing like with like: China ranks first in SCI-indexed research articles since 2018

Junwen Zhu, Weishu Liu

China's rising in scientific research output is impressive. The academic community is curious about the time when the cross-over in the number of annual scientific publication prod…

cs.DL2020

Funding information in Web of Science: An updated overview

Weishu Liu, Li Tang, Guangyuan Hu

Despite the limitations of funding acknowledgment (FA) data in Web of Science (WoS), studies using FA information have increased rapidly over the last several years. Considering th…

cs.DL2018★ 44 cited

Solving multiple-criteria R&D project selection problems with a data-driven evidential reasoning rule

Fang Liu, Yu-wang Chen, Jian-bo Yang +2

In this paper, a likelihood based evidence acquisition approach is proposed to acquire evidence from experts'assessments as recorded in historical datasets. Then a data-driven evid…

cs.DL2018★ 70 cited

Missing author address information in Web of Science-An explorative study

Weishu Liu, Guangyuan Hu, Li Tang

Bibliometric analysis is increasingly used to evaluate and compare research performance across geographical regions. However, the problem of missing information from author address…

cs.DL2018★ 21 cited

Book reviews in academic journals: patterns and dynamics

Weishu Liu, Yishan Ding, Mengdi Gu

Book reviews play important roles in scholarly communication especially in arts and humanities disciplines. By using Web of Science's Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Scienc…