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

2k citations · 5.4k across the 76 of their papers we have counts for

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80 papers

cs.DL2025★ 1 cited

How much are LLMs changing the language of academic papers after ChatGPT? A multi-database and full text analysis

Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall

This study investigates how Large Language Models (LLMs) are influencing the language of academic papers by tracking 12 LLM-associated terms across six major scholarly databases (S…

cs.DL2024★ 3 cited

Assessing the societal influence of academic research with ChatGPT: Impact case study evaluations

Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall

Academics and departments are sometimes judged by how their research has benefitted society. For example, the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) assesses Impact Case Studies (I…

cs.DL2023★ 1 cited

Are Scopus journal field classifications ever misleading?

Mike Thelwall, Stephen Pinfield

Journal field classifications in Scopus are used for citation-based indicators and by authors choosing appropriate journals to submit to. Whilst prior research has found that Scopu…

cs.CY2022★ 13 cited

Can REF output quality scores be assigned by AI? Experimental evidence

Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli +4

This document describes strategies for using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to predict some journal article scores in future research assessment exercises. Five strategies have been…

cs.DL2022

Do bibliometrics introduce gender, institutional or interdisciplinary biases into research evaluations?

Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli +4

Systematic evaluations of publicly funded research typically employ a combination of bibliometrics and peer review, but it is not known whether the bibliometric component introduce…

cs.DL2022

Do altmetric scores reflect article quality? Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework 2021

Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli +4

Altmetrics are web-based quantitative impact or attention indicators for academic articles that have been proposed to supplement citation counts. This article reports the first ass…