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most citedGoogle Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: a systematic comparison of citations in 252 subject categories

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cs.DL2017★ 32 cited

Microsoft Academic Automatic Document Searches: Accuracy for Journal Articles and Suitability for Citation Analysis

Mike Thelwall

Microsoft Academic is a free academic search engine and citation index that is similar to Google Scholar but can be automatically queried. Its data is potentially useful for biblio…

cs.DL2017★ 34 cited

Microsoft Academic: A multidisciplinary comparison of citation counts with Scopus and Mendeley for 29 journals

Mike Thelwall

Microsoft Academic is a free citation index that allows large scale data collection. This combination makes it useful for scientometric research. Previous studies have found that i…

cs.DL2017★ 4 cited

The Research Production of Nations and Departments: A Statistical Model for the Share of Publications

Mike Thelwall, Ruth Fairclough

Policy makers and managers sometimes assess the share of research produced by a group (country, department, institution). This takes the form of the percentage of publications in a…

cs.DL2017★ 2 cited

Confidence intervals for normalised citation counts: Can they delimit underlying research capability?

Mike Thelwall

Normalised citation counts are routinely used to assess the average impact of research groups or nations. There is controversy over whether confidence intervals for them are theore…

cs.DL2017★ 14 cited

The Accuracy of Confidence Intervals for Field Normalised Indicators

Mike Thelwall, Ruth Fairclough

When comparing the average citation impact of research groups, universities and countries, field normalisation reduces the influence of discipline and time. Confidence intervals fo…