Can Microsoft Academic assess the early citation impact of in-press articles? A multi-discipline exploratory analysis
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Highlights：
• Microsoft Academic is more comprehensive source of citation counts for in-press articles than Scopus.
• Microsoft Academic is the most useful automatic tool for assessing citation impact of in-press articles in a large-scale.
• Microsoft Academic advantage over Scopus for in-press articles is its citation indexing speed and its coverage of e-print archives.
• Microsoft Academic can help to identify cutting-edge research that quickly attracts citations for timely research evaluation.
摘要
•Microsoft Academic is more comprehensive source of citation counts for in-press articles than Scopus.•Microsoft Academic is the most useful automatic tool for assessing citation impact of in-press articles in a large-scale.•Microsoft Academic advantage over Scopus for in-press articles is its citation indexing speed and its coverage of e-print archives.•Microsoft Academic can help to identify cutting-edge research that quickly attracts citations for timely research evaluation.
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论文评审过程：Received 6 December 2017, Revised 17 January 2018, Accepted 17 January 2018, Available online 3 February 2018, Version of Record 3 February 2018.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.01.009
