Sekundarni izvori informacija nezaobilazni su u vrednovanju znanstvenog rada i pri napredovanju u viša znanstvena i znanstveno nastavna zvanja. Zastupljenost časopisa u citatnim bazama podataka značajna je kako za znanstvenike tako i...
In this post, we provide empirical insights into the value of Crossref as a new source of citation data. We compare Crossref with WoS and Scopus, focusing on the citation data that is available in the different data sources. Our analysis will show that more than three-quarters of the references in WoS and more than two-thirds of the Scopus references can be found in Crossref, with about half of these references being openly available. On the other hand, it will also be shown that millions of references are missing in Crossref. These references occur in publications that have been deposited in Crossref without their references.
This is a group connected to the SOP2 class at the Department of information and communication sciences at the Faculty of humanities and social sciences University of Zagreb. SOP2 is a course dealing with document indexing, document searching and related practices.