Author(s): Bartol T; Hocevar M

Title: The capital cities of the ten new European Union countries in selected bibliographic databases

Source: SCIENTOMETRICS 65 (2): 173-187

Date: 2005 NOV

Document Type: Journal : Article

DOI: 10.1007/s11192-005-0266-3

Language: English

LCR: 8   CR: 17   LCS: 0   GCS: 0   SCS: 

Comment:  

Address: Univ Ljubljana, Dept Agron, Biotechnol Fac, Chair Informat Sci, Ljubljana 61000, Slovenia.
Univ Ljubljana, Fac Social Sci, Dept Sociol, Ljubljana 61000, Slovenia.

Reprint: Bartol, T, Univ Ljubljana, Dept Informat Sci, Biotechnol Fac, Ljubljana
61000, Slovenia.

E-mail: tomaz.bartol@bf.uni-lj.si

Author Keywords:  

KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE; CONSEQUENCES; KNOWLEDGE; COVERAGE

Abstract: The aim is to investigate the cities based on the author-affiliation data from Web of Science, Biosis Previews, CAB Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, Compendex/Inspec, Francis, Medline, Pascal, and Sociological Abstracts databases. Specifics of particular cities and publishing patterns and trends with reference to particular disciplines are studied. Characteristics of city-data collection with regard to retrieval accuracy are investigated. Databases are compared regarding document coverage and input consistency. A city as an emerging supranational unit is proposed as a scientometric object and indicator in its own right as a complement to the traditional notion of a country or a nation-state.