Can Microsoft Academic help to assess the citation impact of academic books?

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Highlights：

• Microsoft Academic is a useful automatic tool for assessing citation impact of academic books.

• Microsoft Academic found about 60% of academic books indexed by Book Citation Index (BKCI) from 2013 to 2016.

• Microsoft Academic found 1.5 to 3.6 times more citations than BKCI in 9 out of 17 fields in all four years.

• Microsoft Academic advantage over BKCI for book citation impact assessment is its wider coverage of publications and finding missed citations to books in BKCI.

摘要

•Microsoft Academic is a useful automatic tool for assessing citation impact of academic books.•Microsoft Academic found about 60% of academic books indexed by Book Citation Index (BKCI) from 2013 to 2016.•Microsoft Academic found 1.5 to 3.6 times more citations than BKCI in 9 out of 17 fields in all four years.•Microsoft Academic advantage over BKCI for book citation impact assessment is its wider coverage of publications and finding missed citations to books in BKCI.

论文关键词：Microsoft Academic,Citation analysis,Book impact assessment,Book Citation Index,Google Books

论文评审过程：Received 23 June 2018, Revised 4 August 2018, Accepted 4 August 2018, Available online 15 August 2018, Version of Record 15 August 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.08.003