Large-scale analysis of the accuracy of the journal classification systems of Web of Science and Scopus

作者：

Highlights：

• 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.

摘要

•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.

论文关键词：Journal classification system,Web of Science,Scopus,Citation analysis,Bibliographic database

论文评审过程：Received 2 November 2015, Revised 24 January 2016, Accepted 8 February 2016, Available online 15 March 2016, Version of Record 15 March 2016.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2016.02.003