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Retrieval effectiveness of Scopus and Web of Science based on three types of subject metadata: a comparative study in Economics

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Title Retrieval effectiveness of Scopus and Web of Science based on three types of subject metadata: a comparative study in Economics
 
Creator Sundar Samanta, Kalyan
Sankar Rath, Durga
 
Subject Retrieval evaluation of Scopus
Retrieval evaluation of Web of Science
Recall and Precision
information retrieval
 
Description 132-145
The study tried to measure the retrieval effectiveness of Scopus and Web of Science databases and, simultaneously, to
measure the resource description capabilities of social tags in comparison with standard subject metadata like LCSH
descriptors and SLSH terms. The study results show that both databases produce more or less the same type of Average
Mean Precision (AMP), but comparatively, WOS (AMP=2.44) has a higher AMP than Scopus (AMP=2.30). In the case of
Average Mean Relative Recall (AMRR), the study indicates that Scopus (AMRR=0.73) has a higher AMRR than WOS
(AMRR=0.44). The study also reveals that social tags (MP=2.24) have lower Mean Precision (MP) than other metadata in
Scopus, but social tags (2.46) have higher MP in the WOS database. In the case of Mean Relative Recall (MRR), the study
found that social tags (MRR=0.62 in Scopus & MR=0.38 in WOS) have the same MRR as LCSH descriptors in Scopus and
WOS databases, where SLSH terms have higher MRR than other subject metadata. Moreover, the study concludes that
social tags can describe and retrieve Economics documents like standard metadata (LCSH descriptors and SLSH terms).
 
Date 2024-01-23T11:26:25Z
2024-01-23T11:26:25Z
2023-09
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-2404 (Online); 0972-5423 (Print)
http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/63230
https://doi.org/10.56042/alis.v70i3.2492
 
Language en
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR, India
 
Source ALIS Vol.70(3) [September 2023]