Do Scopus and WoS Correct “Old” Omitted Citations?
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- Authors
- Franceschini, F., Maisano, D., & Mastrogiacomo, L.
- Affiliations
- Politecnico di Torino (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Franceschini, Fiorenzo
- Maisano, Domenico
- Mastrogiacomo, Luca
- Venue
- Scientometrics
- Published
- 2016-02-01
- Volume
- 107
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 321-335
- ISSN
- 0138-9130 (ISSN-L)
- 1588-2861
- OpenAlex
- W2263342651
- Cited by
- 31
- References
- 18
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 3 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 2.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- other-oa
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Scientometrics (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- PORTO@Iris (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- PORTO Publications Open Repository TOrino (Politecnico di Torino) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Web visibility and informetrics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Library Science and Information Systems
- Keywords
- Scopus, Web of Science, error detection, dirty data
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
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