The Representation of Swiss Higher Education Institutions in Five Bibliometric Databases
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2024
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This article examines the representation of Swiss higher education institutions in five bibliometric databases: Dimensions, Scopus, Web of Science (commercial), as well as OpenAIRE and OpenAlex (open). It emphasizes the importance of organisational identifiers, entity and language disambiguation, deduplication, definition of publication types, and affiliation-matching for findability and publication counts. The article presents similarities and differences across databases, noting that overall trends are consistent regardless of the database used. However, database choice can significantly affect comparisons between specific institutions. Non-university institutions in Switzerland appear disadvantaged in the commercial databases Scopus and WoS. This article suggests actions to improve representation of institutions, especially in open databases.
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2024 (4)
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117 - 124
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UniversitätsVerlagWebler
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08534 - Research Analytics Service ETH-Bib. / Research Analytics Service ETH Library
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