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

Abstract:

<Para OutputMedium="All">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.</Para>

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1007/s11192-005-0266-3

Affiliations: 1: Chair of Information Science, Department of Agronomy, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Deparment of Information Science, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2: Deparment of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia,