89 citations · 516 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for
12 papers
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A tale of two databases: The use of Web of Science and Scopus in academic papers
Junwen Zhu, Weishu Liu
Web of Science and Scopus are two world-leading and competing citation databases. By using the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, this paper conduc…
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…
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…
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…
The effect of publishing a highly cited paper on journal's impact factor: a case study of the Review of Particle Physics
Weishu Liu, Fang Liu, Chao Zuo +1
A single highly cited article can give a big but temporary lift in its host journal's impact factor evidenced by the striking example of "A short history of SHELX" published in Act…
Funding acknowledgment analysis:Queries and Caveats
Li Tang, Guangyuan Hu, Weishu Liu
Thomson Reuters' Web of Science (WoS) began systematically collecting acknowledgment information in August 2008. Since then, bibliometric analysis of funding acknowledgment (FA) ha…