Conference proceedings publications in bibliographic databases: a case study of countries in Southeast Asia
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Conference proceedings publications in bibliographic databases: a case study of countries in Southeast Asia Philip J. Purnell1,2 Received: 21 April 2020 / Accepted: 22 October 2020 © The Author(s) 2020
Abstract Leading citation databases have made concerted efforts to reflect academic conference contributions in the form of proceedings papers in their databases. We studied global trends and a regional case study to determine the relative representation of conference proceedings in the global scholarly literature using the Web of Science, Scopus, and Dimensions. We designed our case study of ten Southeast Asian countries to uncover conspicuous publishing patterns obscured by global average figures. As a result, we discovered that Indonesia alone has made a recent and remarkable shift towards conference proceedings publishing. This trend was not the result of expanding database coverage but may be linked to a rapid increase in conferences locally hosted in Indonesia. The conclusion suggests that conference proceedings are increasingly indexed by major databases, and that scholars might have found advantage in publishing conference papers that were quicker and easier to publish than journal articles or book chapters. Our study is relevant to policy makers in the area of research evaluation because it highlights potential changes in academic publishing behaviour by those being assessed. Keywords Conference proceedings · Indonesia · ASEAN · Location · Promotion
Introduction Academic scholars all over the world face mounting pressure to publish their findings in sources that are indexed in global citation databases (Abramo and D’Angelo 2014). Those who evaluate individuals for recruitment, academic promotion, or research grant awards increasingly use some form of quantitative assessment of their publication output and citation impact when taking decisions. The methods used in such assessment are often the subject of extensive discussion (Hicks, Wouters, Waltman, de Rijcke and Rafols 2015) and frequently use established citation indexes such as Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus (Archambault, Campbell, Gingras and Lariviere 2009) and more recently, new databases * Philip J. Purnell [email protected] 1
Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, P.O. Box 905, 2300 AX Leiden, The Netherlands
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United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE
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Scientometrics
such as Dimensions (Hook, Porter, and Herzog 2018). All these databases comprise research contributions published in a variety of academic sources, most importantly journals, books and conference proceedings. The subject of this study is the body of literature resulting from scholarly conferences and which play an important and increasingly visible role in the scholarly literature alongside journal articles, book chapters and other forms of scientific communication. In recent years, conference proceedings have been integrated with citation indexes to enable academics to search, retrieve and cite them in the same
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