1. Agricultural Science: three bibliometric systems compared
Sub title
201703, Ellen Fest & Hugo Besemer

2. General
The expected citedness of an article depends very much on subject
In bibliometric studies subject = journal category
Most categorization systems depend on choices who made them
There are subject specific (economy, chemistry) categorizations but most are generic

3. What we did Compare three systems, based on
Web of Science - Essential Science Indicators
Web of Science - WOS categories
Scopus - ASJC (All Science Journal Classification)
We looked at 14 University Departments
9 Institutes (or their business units)
Groups that were: very specific (compared to ESI); low coverage in WOS; Performing particularly well or particularly not so well….

4. The systems compared Web of Science Scopus Number of articles 9124596
Number of Journals
12393
24015
Number of Categories
22 (ESI)
251 (Incites)
331
Avg categories per Jounal
1 (ESI)
1.6 (Incites)
2.1

5. What we expected Scopus would cover better than Web of Science
Specific groups would perform better with more specific categories
Web of Science categories are more precise
Based on Wang, Qi, and Ludo Waltman.
"Large-scale analysis of the accuracy of the journal classification systems of
Web of Science and Scopus." Journal of Informetrics 10.2 (2016):

6. Coverage (University)

7. Coverage (Institutes)

8. Performance: the overall picture

9. How do groups with low WOS coverage perform? Management studies

10. MST Altmetrics
Supply Chain-Wide Consequences of Transaction Risks and Their Contractual Solutions: Towards an Extended Transaction Cost Economics Framework
University-industry collaboration in turkish SMEs
Patient hospital choice for hip replacement: empirical evidence from the Netherlands

11. How do very specific groups perform? Fisheries

12. Categories for fisheries
Staff Publications
InCites
SciVal
Research Field (ESI)
Share
RI*
Web of Science Categories
CNCI*
Subject Area
Subcategory
FWCI*
Agricultural Sciences
50%
0.97
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY
17%
1.47
Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Food Science
13%
2.30
Economics & Business
18%
1.42
FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
14%
1.05
Business, Management and Accounting
Business and International Management 8%
1.03
Engineering
1.70
ECONOMICS
1.06
Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Economics and Econometrics 7%
1.50
Social Sciences, General
1.62
AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
1.07
Computer Science
Computer Science Applications 6%
0.39 4%
1.18
MANAGEMENT
1.20
Management Information Systems
0.46
Environment/Ecology 1%
1.48
BUSINESS 5%
1.80
Computer Networks and Communications
0.27
Immunology
1.49
ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL
1.37
Agronomy and Crop Science
1.12
Plant & Animal Science
0.95
OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
1.40
General Business, Management and Accounting 3%
1.11
COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS
0.87
Strategy and Management
2.24
PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT
2.55
Decision Sciences
Management Science and Operations Research
2.46
Other
27%
41%

13. Fisheries Altmetrics
Red light represses the photophysiology of the scleractinian coral Stylophora pistillata
Cell turnover and detritus production in marine sponges from tropical and temperate benthic ecosystems
Oxygen and Heterotrophy Affect Calcification of the Scleractinian Coral Galaxea fascicularis

14. Forestry, a group that perform well in the present system (WOS / ESI)

15. And what categories do they end up?
Staff Publications
InCites
SciVal
Research Field (ESI)
Share
RI*
Web of Science Categories
CNCI*
Subject Area
Subcategory
FWCI*
Environment/Ecology
50%
2.71
ECOLOGY
36%
2.11
Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
17%
2.80
Plant & Animal Science
42%
3.00
FORESTRY
24%
1.67
Plant Science
14%
2.37
Agricultural Sciences 4%
1.85
PLANT SCIENCES
18%
2.79
Environmental Science
Ecology
13%
2.81
Geosciences 2%
1.20
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 8%
3.17
Forestry
11%
1.81
Social Sciences, General
0.42
BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION
5.58
Nature and Landscape Conservation 6%
2.69
Engineering
0.4%
0.52
GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL
2.55
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Physiology 5%
2.13
AGRONOMY 3%
2.06
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
2.48
GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
1.72
Medicine
General Medicine
1.54
METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES 1%
4.81
Global and Planetary Change
7.10
ZOOLOGY
1.13
General Environmental Science
7.67
Other
10%
22%
* RI = Relative Impact
* CNCI = Category Normalized Citation Impact
* FWCI = Field Weighted Citation Impact, , all output types

16. Forest ecology Altmetrics
Key role of symbiotic dinitrogen fixation in tropical forest secondary succession.
Sustaining conservation values in selectively logged tropical forests: The attained and the attainable
Limitations to sustainable frankincense production: blocked regeneration, high adult mortality and declining populations

17. And yours? Mine: Do we want agricultural journal categories?
Do we want open citation data?
And yours?