Revisiting subject classification in academic databases: A comparison of the classification accuracy of Web of Science, Scopus & Dimensions

• Published in: Journal of intelligent & fuzzy systems Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 2471 - 2476
• Main Authors: Singh, Prashasti, Piryani, Rajesh, Singh, Vivek Kumar, Pinto, David
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.01.2020; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Bibliometrics; Classification; Classification schemes; Indexing; Information retrieval; Science; subject classification; research category; Academic databases

Classification of research articles into different subject areas is an extremely important task in bibliometric analysis and information retrieval. There are primarily two kinds of subject classification approaches used in different academic databases: journal-based (aka source-level) and article-ba...