To what extent is inclusion in the Web of Science an indicator of journal ‘quality’?
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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 and scientific impact criteria. These can be considered as universalistic criteria, meaning that they can be applied to any journal regardless of its place of publication, language, or discipline. In this article we examine the coverage by WoS of journals produced in Latin America, Spain, and Portugal. We use a logistic regression to examine the probability of a journal to be covered by WoS given universalistic criteria (editorial standards and scientific impact of the journal) and particularistic criteria (country, language, and discipline of the journal). We find that it is not possible to predict the inclusion of journals in WoS only through the universalistic criteria because particularistic variables such as country of the journal, its discipline, and language are strongly related to inclusion in WoS. We conclude that using WoS as a universalistic tool for research assessment can disadvantage science published in journals with adequate editorial standards and scientific merit. We discuss the implications of these findings within the research evaluation literature, specifically for countries and disciplines not extensively covered by WoS.
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Complying with editorial standards does not guarantee inclusion in WoS, while the quality of journal impact may have a greater influence.
“from the perspective of universalistic criteria, it was observed that complying with the editorial standards does not guarantee the inclusion in WoS, while the quality of journal impact may have a greater influence [81].”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [81]
The majority of journals published in languages other than English, in smaller countries, and journals representing very specific research fields, especially university-published journals, had a lesser probability of being included in WoS CC.
“the majority of journals published in other than English languages and in smaller countries, and journals representing very specific research fields, especially ones that were published by universities, were shown to have a lesser probability to be included in WoS CC.”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [81]
The 'publish or perish' attitude stimulates productivity of researchers but creates a bias towards quantity, often overlooking quality.
“this 'publish or perish' attitude, on the one hand, stimulates the productivity of researchers, but, on the other, creates a bias towards quantity, often overlooking quality [2,3,6-8,44,81,163,260,263,284-288].”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [81]
Some countries explicitly do not use WoS for assessments of national research due to its lack of comprehensive coverage width.
“some countries are explicitly not using WoS for assessments of national research, due to its lack of comprehensive coverage width [81].”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [81]
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- Authors
- Chavarro, D., Ràfols, I., & Tang, P.
- Affiliations
- University of Sussex (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Chavarro, Diego
- Venue
- Research Evaluation
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2018-01-29
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 106-118
- ISSN
- 0958-2029 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-5449
- OpenAlex
- W2707936849
- Cited by
- 115
- References
- 83
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 4
- FWCI
- 7.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Research Evaluation (publishedVersion)
- Sussex Research Online (University of Sussex) (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychology Research and Bibliometrics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Keywords
- Web of Science, journal inclusion, journal quality, research evaluation, bibliometric databases, editorial standards, scientific impact, Latin American journals, Spanish periodicals, bibliographic coverage
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