Author Database of Standardized Citation Indicators Derived from Scopus Lacks Transparency and Suggests a False Precision

A critical discussion is presented for the Author Metrics Database (AMD) created by Ioannides et al. (2016, 2020) containing citation-based indicators for 165,000 authors publishing in journals indexed in Scopus. It is concluded that the AMD is a rich intermediary dataset open for further analysis t...

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Main Author: Henk F. Moed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Levy Library Press 2021-04-01
Series:Scholarly Assessment Reports
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Online Access:https://www.scholarlyassessmentreports.org/articles/30