Web of Science and Scopus are not global databases of knowledge

European Science Editing

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Jonathan P. Tennant †¹  Hrvoje Jakovac² 

[1] Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education;Rijeka University School of Medicine

关键词: Scholarly Publishing;    Databases;    Bibliometrics;    Research Assessment;    Epistemic hegemony;   

DOI  :  10.3897/ese.2020.e51987

学科分类：工业工程学

来源: Pensoft

【 摘 要 】

Both Web of Science and Scopus are critical components of the current research ecosystem, providing the basis for university and global rankings as well as for bibliometric research. However, both platforms are structurally biased against research produced in non-Western countries, non-English language research, and research from the arts, humanities, and social sciences. This viewpoint emphasizes the damage that these systematic inequities inflict upon global knowledge production systems and the need for research funders to unite to form a more globally representative, non-profit, community-controlled infrastructure for the global pool of research knowledge.

【 授权许可】

CC BY