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Abstract
Dimensions is a partly free scholarly database launched by Digital Science in January 2018. Dimensions includes journal articles and citation counts, making it a potential new source of impact data. This article explores the value of Dimensions from an impact assessment perspective with an examination of Food Science research 2008-2018 and a random sample of 10,000 Scopus articles from 2012. The results include high correlations between citation counts from Scopus and Dimensions (0.96 by narrow field in 2012) as well as similar average counts. Almost all Scopus articles with DOIs were found in Dimensions (97% in 2012). Thus, the scholarly database component of Dimensions seems to be a plausible alternative to Scopus and the Web of Science for general citation analyses and for citation data in support of some types of research evaluations.Citation
Thelwall, M. (2018). Dimensions: A Competitor to Scopus and the Web of Science? Journal of Informetrics, 12 (2), pp 430-435.Publisher
ElsevierJournal
Journal of InformetricsAdditional Links
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S175115771830066XType
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This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Elsevier in Journal of Informetrics on 26/03/2018, available online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.03.006 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.ISSN
1751-1577ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.joi.2018.03.006
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