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Direct linkWanyama, Seperia B.; McQuaid, Ronald W.; Kittler, Markus – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2022
Systematic literature reviews are common in social research for integrating and synthesising existing research. This paper argues that the outcomes of such reviews are affected by the choice of bibliographic databases. It presents evidence of substantial variation across three large electronic databases (Scopus, Web of Science and EBSCO) in a…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Information Retrieval, Literature Reviews, Periodicals
Chavarro, Diego; Ràfols, Ismael; Tang, Puay – Research Evaluation, 2018
The assessment of research based on the journal in which it is published is a widely adopted practice. Some research assessments use the Web of Science (WoS) to identify 'high quality' journals, which are assumed to publish excellent research. The authority of WoS on journal quality stems from its selection of journals based on editorial standards…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Bibliographic Databases, Foreign Countries, Probability
