Mapping the aliran of the academic discipline of entrepreneurship: A ...

3.2.1.05 However, a closer look at the Google Scholar and P roq uest search contents, d id
result in less dissonance with my selection of the Web of Science database. Firstly, the
Web of Science has credibility as being the most commonly used source of bibliometric
data.
Traditionally, the most commonly used source of bibliometric data is Thomson ISI
Web of Knowledge, in particular the Web of Science and the Journal Citation
Repor ts (JCR) [Harzing and van der Wal, 2008, p1].
Secondly, Proquest and GS include non academic references such as newspapers and
magazine. Including articles such as the Wall Street Journals and trade publications tends
to take this search out of the discipline and into the discourse. Based on my model
developed in Part Two, it could be said that these relate more to contributions by
intellectuals in some cases and possibly non-academics and even non-intellectuals (op-eds)
in others. The focus of my research is to look a t the evolving discipline of entrepreneurship
by academics and to assess the impact of intellectuals / non-academics, with the po ssible
advent of discontinuities on the discipline, by way of citation by academics to articles by
non-academics or intellectuals, rather than the articles by these intellectuals / non-
academics, themselves. It could appear that the Web of Science database has a more
specific focus on the discipline rather than the discourse and in the instance of this research
it may be more appropriate to use Web of Science rather than other databases to determine
the positioning of the episteme.
3.2.1.06 A further small point in favour of using Web of Science rather than ProQuest
was that the 2,161 articles from Web of Science contained some 87,060 citations that were
analysed individually and manually. Any larger number of citations, that could have
sourced from analysing all of the citations from 5,000 or more journals, could have
become significantly larger than my patience. The question also needs to be raised whether
using the 5,000 + episteme portal from Proquest would produce a significantly different
aliran, or simply more citations pointing to the same articles.
3.2.1.06 As discussed further in the first section of Part Four, dealing with empirics, the
issue of the selection of the Web of Science as my episteme of choice becomes an
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