Can Scopus Deliver A Better Journal Impact Metric? | The Scholarly Kitchen

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-03-08

Summary:

" ... In this post, I explore how Scopus, a competing product owned by Elsevier, deals with the problem of citable items, highlighting where I think they do a much better job, but also where I think they fail to deliver what they advertise. We should evaluate Scopus metrics for another, more pragmatic, reason: Thomson Reuters is looking to sell off its Intellectual Property and Science businesses. While one could speculate endlessly on the future of the company that produces the Impact Factor, it is not unreasonable to consider that, in the foreseeable future, we may collectively follow a different metrics hero. Just as the Peloponnesian War was not won over a single battle, Elsevier has been playing a long, tactical game with the development of Scopus and their strategy is paying off. Like our last post, we begin our metrics evaluation by starting with document classification ..."

Link:

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2016/03/07/can-scopus-deliver-a-better-journal-impact-metric/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.impact oa.jif oa.citations oa.elsevier oa.scopus oa.thomson_reuters oa.metrics

Date tagged:

03/08/2016, 09:03

Date published:

03/08/2016, 04:03