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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Plana, Natalie M
• Massie, Jonathan P
• Bekisz, Jonathan M
• Spore, Stuart
• Diaz-Siso, J. Rodrigo
• Flores, Roberto L

Titel

Variations in Databases Used to Assess Academic Output and Citation Impact

Ist Teil von

• The New England journal of medicine, 2017-06, Vol.376 (25), p.2489-2491

Ort / Verlag

United States: Massachusetts Medical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• An analysis of listings of 1469 clinical and research faculty in PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar showed major differences in numbers of publications and citations and in the h-index (a measure of productivity and citations) for each author. To the Editor: Online scientific databases are increasingly accessed to evaluate academic productivity. 1 However, major discrepancies among databases 2 can affect the recognition and professional advancement of academicians. To highlight inaccurate and inconsistent bibliometric reports across databases, we performed a large-scale analysis of data on the entire faculty cohort at New York University Medical Center. We searched listings of 1469 clinical and research faculty according to their full names in the PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar databases; to be included in the analysis, the faculty members had to have a middle initial and an h-index greater than zero . . .