Information management and improvement of citation indices

作者：

Highlights：

• Bibliographic databases lack uniformity and accuracy due to duplications, misspellings, name variants, etc.

• Dataset pre-processing is very important to obtain more accurate, realistic and valid bibliometric analysis.

• STICCI.eu is a software tool for improving and converting citation indices – enhancing uniformity.

• STICCI.eu is able to convert bibliographical citation formats (WoS, Scopus, Google Scholar, CSV, BibTex, RIS).

• It corrects mistakes in databases, detecting duplications, misspellings, name variants, toponymical names, etc.

摘要

•Bibliographic databases lack uniformity and accuracy due to duplications, misspellings, name variants, etc.•Dataset pre-processing is very important to obtain more accurate, realistic and valid bibliometric analysis.•STICCI.eu is a software tool for improving and converting citation indices – enhancing uniformity.•STICCI.eu is able to convert bibliographical citation formats (WoS, Scopus, Google Scholar, CSV, BibTex, RIS).•It corrects mistakes in databases, detecting duplications, misspellings, name variants, toponymical names, etc.

论文关键词：Information management,Bibliometrics,Citation indices,Data cleaning,Software

论文评审过程：Available online 3 February 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2014.01.002