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Classifications of science and their effects on bibliometric evaluations

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Disciplinary classification of science is essential to bibliometric analyses. Given the conceptual and technical difficulties in classifying individual papers into disciplines and specialties, most classifications systems are implemented at the journal level, which affects the classification of papers published in multidisciplinary journals. In order to investigate the effect of the different classification systems on bibliometric evaluations, this study compares the rankings of the most productive institutions and most productive authors using the two types of classifications. Results show that the classification of papers has less influence on rankings at the institutional level than at the individual level. Implications for bibliometric evaluations are discussed.

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Shu, F., Ma, Y., Qiu, J., & Larivière, V. (2020). Classifications of science and their effects on bibliometric evaluations. Scientometrics 125(3), 2727–2744

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