Missing author address information in Web of Science—An explorative study

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Highlights：

• Over one-fifth of publications indexed in Web of Science have completely missing information from the address field from 1900 to 2015.

• The completely missing address rates vary greatly among time periods, citation databases, document types, and publishing languages.

• The problem of partially missing address information, which was thorny for U.S.-contributed articles, has diminished dramatically since 1998.

摘要

•Over one-fifth of publications indexed in Web of Science have completely missing information from the address field from 1900 to 2015.•The completely missing address rates vary greatly among time periods, citation databases, document types, and publishing languages.•The problem of partially missing address information, which was thorny for U.S.-contributed articles, has diminished dramatically since 1998.

论文关键词：Information omission,Author address,Research evaluation

论文评审过程：Received 12 October 2017, Revised 25 July 2018, Accepted 25 July 2018, Available online 16 August 2018, Version of Record 16 August 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.07.008