Episode Synopsis "Citation indexes make research more unequal"

When Garfield first launched his Science Citation Index in 1965, many criticised its unequal geographical coverage of the world’s scientific literature. Almost 60 years later, the problem has not gone away. Drawing on their recent paper David Mills and Toluwase Asubiaro examine the regional disparities within Scopus and Web of Science. What data set links … Continued

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