Examining the quality of the corresponding authorship field in Web of Science and Scopus

Este registro lleva adjunto tanto el preprint del artículo como la versión final publicada del mismo.

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Autores: Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Zaida, Costas, Rodrigo, Robinson-García, Nicolás, Larivière, Vincent
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Palavra-chave:Corresponding authorship
Research evaluation
Web of Science
Scopus
Bibliographic data sources
Information sciences
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spelling Examining the quality of the corresponding authorship field in Web of Science and ScopusChinchilla-Rodríguez, ZaidaCostas, RodrigoRobinson-García, NicolásLarivière, VincentCorresponding authorshipResearch evaluationWeb of ScienceScopusBibliographic data sourcesInformation sciencesEste registro lleva adjunto tanto el preprint del artículo como la versión final publicada del mismo.Authorship is associated with scientific capital and prestige, and corresponding authorship is used in evaluation as a proxy for scientific status. However, there are no empirical analyses on the validity of the corresponding authorship metadata in bibliometric databases. This paper aims at looking at differences on the corresponding authorship metadata in Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus, to investigate how the relationship between author position and corresponding authors varies by discipline and country and analyzing changes in the position of corresponding authors over time. We find that both, WoS and Scopus, have accuracy issues when it comes to assigning corresponding authorship. Although the number of documents with a reprint author has increased over time in both databases, however, WoS indexed more of those papers than Scopus, and there are significant differences between the two databases in terms of who the corresponding author is. Although metadata is not complete in WoS, corresponding authors are normally first authors with a declining trend over time, favoring middle and last authors, especially in Medical, Natural & Engineering fields. These results reinforce the importance of considering how databases operationalize and index concepts like corresponding authors, being this particularly important when are used in research assessment.The authors acknowledge funding from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (RESPONSIBLE project PID2021-128429NB-I00 and COMPARE project PID2020-117007RA-I00). Nicolas Robinson-Garcia is funded by a Ramón y Cajal grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (REF: RYC2019-027886-I).Peer reviewedMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Zaida [0000-0002-1608-4478]Costas, Rodrigo [0000-0002-7465-6462]Robinson-García, Nicolás [0000-0002-0585-7359]Larivière, Vincent [0000-0002-2733-0689]Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]202320232023info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/338117reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Inglés#PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE##PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE#info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2021-2023/PID2021-128429NB-I00info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PID2020-117007RA-I00https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00288Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/3381172026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Examining the quality of the corresponding authorship field in Web of Science and Scopus
title Examining the quality of the corresponding authorship field in Web of Science and Scopus
spellingShingle Examining the quality of the corresponding authorship field in Web of Science and Scopus
Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Zaida
Corresponding authorship
Research evaluation
Web of Science
Scopus
Bibliographic data sources
Information sciences
title_short Examining the quality of the corresponding authorship field in Web of Science and Scopus
title_full Examining the quality of the corresponding authorship field in Web of Science and Scopus
title_fullStr Examining the quality of the corresponding authorship field in Web of Science and Scopus
title_full_unstemmed Examining the quality of the corresponding authorship field in Web of Science and Scopus
title_sort Examining the quality of the corresponding authorship field in Web of Science and Scopus
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Zaida
Costas, Rodrigo
Robinson-García, Nicolás
Larivière, Vincent
author Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Zaida
author_facet Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Zaida
Costas, Rodrigo
Robinson-García, Nicolás
Larivière, Vincent
author_role author
author2 Costas, Rodrigo
Robinson-García, Nicolás
Larivière, Vincent
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Zaida [0000-0002-1608-4478]
Costas, Rodrigo [0000-0002-7465-6462]
Robinson-García, Nicolás [0000-0002-0585-7359]
Larivière, Vincent [0000-0002-2733-0689]
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Corresponding authorship
Research evaluation
Web of Science
Scopus
Bibliographic data sources
Information sciences
topic Corresponding authorship
Research evaluation
Web of Science
Scopus
Bibliographic data sources
Information sciences
description Este registro lleva adjunto tanto el preprint del artículo como la versión final publicada del mismo.
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