Can Crossref Citations Replace Web of Science for Research Evaluation? The Share of Open Citations
Tomáš Chudlarský1,2, Jan Dvořák1,2,()
1Czech Technical University in Prague, Computing and Information Centre, Jugoslávských partyzánů 3, CZ-16000 Praha 6, Czech Republic 2Charles University, Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Na Příkopě 29, CZ-11000 Praha 1, Czech Republic
Chudlarský, Tomáš, and Jan Dvořák. "Can Crossref Citations Replace Web of Science for Research Evaluation? The Share of Open Citations." Journal of Data and Information Science, vol.5, no.4, 2020, pp.35-42. DOI: 10.2478/jdis-2020-0037
Coverage of WoS citations in COCI by CTU unit. COCI_WOS_RATIO denotes the proportion of Web of Science citations that are found in Crossref as open citations.
Figure 1.
Table 1
Coverage of WoS citations in COCI by the unit of the Czech Technical University.
Faculty or University Institute
WoS publications
WoS citations
Of which in COCI
Coverage
Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics
1,122
24,348
15,225
62.5%
Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering
4,225
54,470
32,398
59.5%
Faculty of Transportation Sciences
567
15,830
9,329
58.9%
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
1,778
26,114
14,999
57.4%
Czech Technical University (whole)
12,796
90,675
48,707
53.7%
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
3,959
16,726
7,768
46.4%
Faculty of Biomedical Engineering
478
2,050
950
46.3%
Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics
219
459
191
41.6%
Faculty of Civil Engineering
1,727
7,131
2,539
35.6%
University Centre of Energy Efficient Buildings
114
232
72
31.0%
Klokner Institute
126
255
78
30.6%
Faculty of Information Technology
347
654
185
28.3%
Table 1
Figure 2.
Coverage of WoS citations in COCI by discipline (the OECD FORD classification). COCI_WOS_RATIO denotes the proportion of Web of Science citations that are found in Crossref as open citations. The constant column Physical Sciences represents the average value for the equally named FORD field.
Figure 2.
Table 2
Coverage of WoS citations in COCI by discipline (the OECD FORD classification).
Field ( / Subfield)
WoS publications
WoS citations
Of which in COCI
Coverage
- Physical sciences / Astronomy (including astrophysics, space science)
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