MEASURING THE IMPACT OF KNOWLEDGE - A Comparison of Web of Science and Google Scholar

John Mingers; Lea Lipitakis

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MEASURING THE IMPACT OF KNOWLEDGE - A Comparison of Web of Science and Google Scholar

Topics: Impact Measurement of Knowledge Management; Studies, Metrics & Benchmarks

In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 0IC3K, 112-116, 2009 , Funchal - Madeira, Portugal

Authors: John Mingers ¹ and Lea Lipitakis ²

Affiliations: ¹ University of Kent, United Kingdom ; ² Kent Business School, United Kingdom

Keyword(s): Citations, Impact metrics, Research benchmarks.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics: Artificial Intelligence ; Impact Measurement of Knowledge Management ; Knowledge Management and Information Sharing ; Knowledge-Based Systems ; Studies, Metrics & Benchmarks ; Symbolic Systems

Abstract: Assessing the quality of the knowledge produced by management academics is increasing being metricated. Moreover, emphasis is being placed on the impact of the research rather than simply where it is published. The main metric for impact is the number of citations a paper receives. Traditionally this data has come from the ISI Web of Science but research has shown that this has poor coverage in the social sciences. A newer and different source for citations is Google Scholar. In this paper we compare the two on a dataset of over 1200 publications from a UK Business School. The results show that Web of Science is indeed poor in the area of management and that Google Scholar, whilst somewhat unreliable, has a much better coverage.

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Mingers, J. and Lipitakis, L. (2009). MEASURING THE IMPACT OF KNOWLEDGE - A Comparison of Web of Science and Google Scholar. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing (IC3K 2009) - KMIS; ISBN 978-989-674-013-9; ISSN 2184-3228, SciTePress, pages 112-116. DOI: 10.5220/0002278401120116

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