Large-Scale Analysis of the Accuracy of the Journal Classification Systems of Web of Science and Scopus
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WoS and Scopus have specific deficiencies including inconsistencies of journal coverage, inaccuracy of subject classification schemes, missing citation information or citation links, incorrect and missing DOI numbers, duplicate entries, and inconsistent publication dates.
“Meanwhile, other authors discussed more specific deficiencies of the DBs, such as inconsistencies of journal coverage [63], the accuracy of subject classification schemes [64], missing citation information or citation links [40,65,66], incorrect and missing DOI numbers [53,67-69], duplicate entries [30], and inconsistent publication dates [53].”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [64]
In a large-scale comparison of WoS and Scopus subject classification schemes, WoS performed significantly better than Scopus, especially regarding cases of journals with weak relations to the categories they are assigned to.
“The analysis showed that WoS performs significantly better than Scopus, especially regarding the cases of journals with weak relations to the categories that they are assigned to.”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [64]
The number of such journals was higher in Scopus compared to WoS.
“the number of such journals was higher in Scopus as compared to WoS”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [64]
Scopus uses a two-level classification: four major disciplines (Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities), subdivided into 27 categories, further broken down into more than 300 subject fields based on ASJC.
“Scopus uses classification of two levels. All of the sources are divided into four major disciplines: Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Health Sciences, and Social Sciences and Humanities. These disciplines are subdivided into 27 categories, which are further broken down into more than 300 subject fields, based on All Science Journal Classification (ASJC)”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [64]
The situation of journals showing strong relations to categories they are not assigned to was less pronounced in both DBs, and the difference between WoS and Scopus was far less noticeable.
“the situation of journals showing strong relations to the categories that they are not assigned to was less pronounced in both DBs, and the difference between WoS and Scopus was far less noticeable”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [64]
Both WoS and Scopus classification schemes are generally regarded as being far from perfect, although their empirical comparisons are very sparse.
“both WoS and Scopus classification schemes are generally regarded as being far from perfect, although their empirical comparisons are very sparse”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [64]
The reliability of results obtained from different DBs may be affected not only by incompatible classification schemes, but also by questionable assignation of indexed sources to subject fields within the DBs.
“the reliability of the results that were obtained from different DBs may be affected not only by the incompatible classification schemes, but also by a questionable assignation of indexed sources to the subject fields within the DBs”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [64]
When both situations of journal relations to categories were evaluated at the same time, in both DBs journals weakly related to assigned category but with strong relations to other category were identified.
“When both of the situations of journal relations to categories were evaluated at the same time, in both DBs the journals weakly related to assigned category, but with strong relations to the other category were identified.”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [64]
Different bibliographic DBs sort their indexed content based on their own individual subject classification schemes.
“different bibliographic DBs sort their indexed content based on their own individual subject classification schemes”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [64]
Classification schemes applied in both WoS and Scopus lack documentation adequately describing the methodology used to construct them, thus making their use for bibliometric analyses problematic.
“classification schemes applied in both WoS and Scopus lack documentation adequately describing the methodology used to construct them, thus making their use for bibliometric analyses problematic”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [64]
WoS offers two separate classification schemes: by categories and by research areas.
“Nowadays, WoS offers two separate classification schemes: by categories and by research areas.”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [64]
In both DBs, subject assignation errors mostly occur in cases of multidisciplinary sources, which cannot be properly classified at the journal level.
“in both DBs subject assignation errors mostly occur in the cases of multidisciplinary sources, which cannot be properly classified at the journal level”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [64]
Journals in Scopus are usually assigned with a higher number of categories, and there are significantly more 'multidisciplinary' categories in Scopus classification compared to WoS.
“journals in Scopus are usually assigned with a higher number of categories, and there are significantly more 'multidisciplinary' categories in Scopus classification when compared to WoS”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [64]
The higher numbers of inaccuracies determined in Scopus might be related to the higher numbers of Scopus journals included in the study due to wider Scopus coverage, but the differences in DBs' coverage were not accounted for.
“one can argue that the higher numbers of inaccuracies determined in Scopus might be related to the higher numbers of Scopus journals included in the study due to the wider Scopus coverage, but the differences in DBs' coverage were not accounted for”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [64]
In both DBs, journals are often assigned to multidisciplinary categories or with more than one subject field, but these practices were much more frequent in Scopus than in WoS.
“In both DBs, journals are often being assigned to multidisciplinary categories or with more than one subject field, but these practices were much more frequent in Scopus than in WoS.”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [64]
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- Authors
- Wang, Q., & Waltman, L.
- Affiliations
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE)
- Leiden University (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Wang, Qi
- Venue
- Journal of Informetrics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2016-05
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 347-364
- ISSN
- 1751-1577 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1934095247
- Cited by
- 417
- References
- 52
- Citations by year
- 2026: 36 · 2025: 47 · 2024: 64 · 2023: 63 · 2022: 45 · 2021: 43 · 2020: 37 · 2019: 36 · 2018: 23 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 25.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Informetrics (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Leiden Repository (Leiden University) (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Web visibility and informetrics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychology Research and Bibliometrics
- Keywords
- classification accuracy, Web of Science, Scopus, bibliographic databases, library and information science journals, bibliometric analysis
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