Document (#43995)

Author

Asubiaro, T.V.
Onaolapo, S.

Title

¬A comparative study of the coverage of African journals in Web of Science, Scopus, and CrossRef

Source

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 74(2023) no.7, S.745-758

Year

2023

Abstract

This is the first study that evaluated the coverage of journals from Africa in Web of Science, Scopus, and CrossRef. A list of active journals published in each of the 55 African countries was compiled from Ulrich's periodicals directory and African Journals Online (AJOL) website. Journal master lists for Web of Science, Scopus, and CrossRef were searched for the African journals. A total of 2,229 unique active African journals were identified from Ulrich (N = 2,117, 95.0%) and AJOL (N = 243, 10.9%) after removing duplicates. The volume of African journals in Web of Science and Scopus databases is 7.4% (N = 166) and 7.8% (N = 174), respectively, compared to the 45.6% (N = 1,017) covered in CrossRef. While making up only 17.% of all the African journals, South African journals had the best coverage in the two most authoritative databases, accounting for 73.5% and 62.1% of all the African journals in Web of Science and Scopus, respectively. In contrast, Nigeria published 44.5% of all the African journals. The distribution of the African journals is biased in favor of Medical, Life and Health Sciences and Humanities and the Arts in the three databases. The low representation of African journals in CrossRef, a free indexing infrastructure that could be harnessed for building an African-centric research indexing database, is concerning.

Content

https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24758. Vgl.: https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.24758.

Theme

Informetrie

Object

Web of Science
Scopus
CrossRef

Location

Afrika

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