Does the web of science accurately represent chinese scientific performance?

With the significant development of China's economy and scientific activity, its scientific publication activity is experiencing a period of rapid growth. However, measuring China's research output remains a challenge because Chinese scholars may publish their research in either internatio...

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Published in:Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2019-10, Vol.70 (10), p.1138-1152
Main Authors: Shu, Fei, Julien, Charles‐Antoine, Larivière, Vincent
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic discourse
Bibliometrics
Chinese languages
English language
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Summary:With the significant development of China's economy and scientific activity, its scientific publication activity is experiencing a period of rapid growth. However, measuring China's research output remains a challenge because Chinese scholars may publish their research in either international or national journals, yet no bibliometric database covers both the Chinese and English scientific literature. The purpose of this study is to compare Web of Science (WoS) with a Chinese bibliometric database in terms of authors and their performance, demonstrate the extent of the overlap between the two groups of Chinese most productive authors in both international and Chinese bibliometric databases, and determine how different disciplines may affect this overlap. The results of this study indicate that Chinese bibliometric databases, or a combination of WoS and Chinese bibliometric databases, should be used to evaluate Chinese research performance except in the few disciplines in which Chinese research performance could be assessed using WoS only.
ISSN:2330-1635
2330-1643
DOI:10.1002/asi.24184