Special issue on bibliographic data sources
Ludo Waltman, Vincent Larivière
Abstract
Research in quantitative science studies relies on an increasingly broad range of data sources, providing data on scholarly publications, social media activity, peer review, research funding, the scholarly workforce, scientific prizes, and so on. However, there is one type of data source that remains at the heart of research in quantitative science studies: bibliographic databases. These data sources have increasingly diversified over the last decade. Several organizations now provide large-scale databases of metadata on scholarly publications. For this special issue of Quantitative Science Studies, we invited the providers of major bibliographic data sources to provide insights on how their data can be used to support research in quantitative science studies.