Coverage of academic citation databases compared with coverage of scientific social media: Personal publication lists as calibration parameters

Online Information Review

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 255-264

  Hilbert, Fee ^a   Barth, Julia ^a   Gremm, Julia ^a   Gros, Daniel ^a   Haiter, Jessica ^a   Henkel, Maria ^a   Reinhardt, Wilhelm ^a,b   Stock, Wolfgang G ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Deltamethod GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coverage; Database; Information service; Publication list

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SERVICES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CALIBRATION PARAMETERS; COVERAGE; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; PUBLICATION LIST; SOCIAL MEDIA; WEB OF SCIENCE;

PUBLISHING;

EID: 84937422073     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/OIR-07-2014-0159     Document Type: Article

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