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Examining the quality of the corresponding authorship field in Web of Science and Scopus

2024 Rodrigo Costas / Vincent Larivière Bibliographic databases / Bibliometrics / Research Evaluation / Interdisciplinarity

This content is not available in the selected language. Authorship is associated with scientific capital and prestige, and corresponding authorship is used in evaluation as a proxy for scientific status. However, there are no empirical analyses on the validity of the corresponding authorship metadata in bibliometric databases. This paper looks at differences in the corresponding […] Read more