Reference coverage analysis of OpenAlex compared to Web of Science and Scopus

Jack H. Culbert, Anne Hobert, Najko Jahn, Nick Haupka, Marion Schmidt, Paul Donner, Philipp Mayr

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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-025-05293-3
Published: 2025-04
Container: Scientometrics
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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not scoredOpenAlex core source: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
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BibTeX

@article{allodium:10.1007/s11192-025-05293-3,
  title = {Reference coverage analysis of OpenAlex compared to Web of Science and Scopus},
  author = {Jack H. Culbert and Anne Hobert and Najko Jahn and Nick Haupka and Marion Schmidt and Paul Donner and Philipp Mayr},
  year = {2025},
  journal = {Scientometrics},
  doi = {10.1007/s11192-025-05293-3},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-025-05293-3}
}

RIS

TY  - JOUR
TI  - Reference coverage analysis of OpenAlex compared to Web of Science and Scopus
AU  - Jack H. Culbert
AU  - Anne Hobert
AU  - Najko Jahn
AU  - Nick Haupka
AU  - Marion Schmidt
AU  - Paul Donner
AU  - Philipp Mayr
PY  - 2025
JO  - Scientometrics
DO  - 10.1007/s11192-025-05293-3
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-025-05293-3
ER  -

APA

Culbert, J. H., Hobert, A., Jahn, N., Haupka, N., Schmidt, M., Donner, P., & Mayr, P. (2025). Reference coverage analysis of OpenAlex compared to Web of Science and Scopus. Scientometrics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-025-05293-3

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