<![CDATA[A recent study shows that the same paper can appear nearly twice as “impactful” in Scopus compared to Web of Science - not because it is cited more, but because each database defines the benchmark differently.]]>

<![CDATA[A recent study shows that the same paper can appear nearly twice as “impactful” in Scopus compared to Web of Science - not because it is cited more, but because each database defines the benchmark differently.]]>A recent study shows that the same paper can appear nearly twice as “impactful” in Scopus compared to Web of Science - not because it is cited more, but because each database defines the benchmark differently.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2026.101810

This leads to a strange situation: the same researcher can be both “above average” and “below average” at the same time - like a kind of scientometric Schrödinger’s cat.

#research #impact #assessment #metric #citation

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