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Comparison between Scopus, Web of Science, Pubmed and Publishers for Mislabelled Review Papers


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1 Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Applied Oral Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
 

The present study examined the incidence rate of re-views being mislabelled by Scopus, and compared this rate with Web of Science (WoS), PubMed and official websites of publishers. Top 400 cited publications de-fined by Scopus as ‘articles’ were examined. Their contents were evaluated to see if any were actually reviews. These publications were cross-checked in WoS, PubMed and publisher websites to identify the assigned document type labels. Out of the 400 Scopus ‘articles’, 117 were reviews (29.3%). The official web-sites of publishers had 16.0% incidence of mislabelled reviews, which was less than Scopus (29.3%) but more than WoS (14.1%) and PubMed (1.9%).

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Document Types, Library Science, Information Science, Periodical Articles, Reviews.
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Andy Wai Kan Yeung
Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Applied Oral Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Abstract


The present study examined the incidence rate of re-views being mislabelled by Scopus, and compared this rate with Web of Science (WoS), PubMed and official websites of publishers. Top 400 cited publications de-fined by Scopus as ‘articles’ were examined. Their contents were evaluated to see if any were actually reviews. These publications were cross-checked in WoS, PubMed and publisher websites to identify the assigned document type labels. Out of the 400 Scopus ‘articles’, 117 were reviews (29.3%). The official web-sites of publishers had 16.0% incidence of mislabelled reviews, which was less than Scopus (29.3%) but more than WoS (14.1%) and PubMed (1.9%).

Keywords


Document Types, Library Science, Information Science, Periodical Articles, Reviews.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv116%2Fi11%2F1909-1914