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dc.contributor.authorKousha, Kayvan
dc.contributor.authorThelwall, Mike
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-11T10:55:48Z
dc.date.available2018-09-11T10:55:48Z
dc.date.issued2018-08-15
dc.identifier.citationKousha, K., Thelwall, M. 'Can Microsoft Academic help to assess the citation impact of academic books?' Journal of Informetrics, 12 (3) pp. 972-984
dc.identifier.issn1751-1577
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.joi.2018.08.003
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/621688
dc.description.abstractDespite recent evidence that Microsoft Academic is an extensive source of citation counts for journal articles, it is not known if the same is true for academic books. This paper fills this gap by comparing citations to 16,463 books from 2013 to 2016 in the Book Citation Index (BKCI) against automatically extracted citations from Microsoft Academic and Google Books in 17 fields. About 60% of the BKCI books had records in Microsoft Academic, varying by year and field. Citation counts from Microsoft Academic were 1.5 to 3.6 times higher than from BKCI in nine subject areas across all years for books indexed by both. Microsoft Academic found more citations than BKCI because it indexes more scholarly publications and combines citations to different editions and chapters. In contrast, BKCI only found more citations than Microsoft Academic for books in three fields from 2013-2014. Microsoft Academic also found more citations than Google Books in six fields for all years. Thus, Microsoft Academic may be a useful source for the impact assessment of books when comprehensive coverage is not essential.
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dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157718302487
dc.subjectMicrosoft Academic
dc.subjectbook impact assessment
dc.subjectcitation analysis
dc.subjectaltmetrics
dc.subjectBook Citation Index
dc.titleCan Microsoft Academic help to assess the citation impact of academic books?
dc.typeJournal article
dc.identifier.journalJournal of Informetrics
dc.date.accepted2018-08-04
rioxxterms.funderUniversity of Wolverhampton
rioxxterms.identifier.projectUOW11092018KK
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rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2019-08-15
dc.source.volume12
dc.source.issue3
dc.source.beginpage972
dc.source.endpage984
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refterms.dateFOA2019-08-15T00:00:00Z


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