Title
Large-Scale Analysis of the Accuracy of the Journal Classification Systems of Web of Science and Scopus
Abstract
•We examine the accuracy of the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus journal classification systems.•We define two criteria based on direct citation relations between journals and categories.•WoS is significantly more accurate than Scopus according to Criterion I.•WoS and Scopus both perform well according to Criterion II.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.joi.2016.02.003
Journal of Informetrics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Journal classification system,Web of Science,Scopus,Citation analysis,Bibliographic database
Data mining,Information retrieval,Bibliographic database,Computer science,Citation,Citation analysis,Scopus
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
2
1751-1577
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
27
0.94
26
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qi Wang1293.40
Ludo Waltman22236105.47