Mapping the aliran of the academic discipline of entrepreneurship: A ...
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number <strong>of</strong> mis-spellings and errors in data entry, that meant that <strong>the</strong> sorting process could<br />
not be automated. However I would assume that <strong>the</strong>se flaws are not only found in Web <strong>of</strong><br />
Science database, and since it appears that most <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> databases are compiled manually,<br />
<strong>the</strong> same errors can reasonably be expected to also appear in <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r databases.<br />
4.1.2.02 Harzing and van der Wal [2008] also commented on misspellings being<br />
significant issue, particularly when comparing studies. They also listed <strong>the</strong> following<br />
criticisms <strong>of</strong> Web <strong>of</strong> Science:<br />
• Web <strong>of</strong> Science ‘general search’ is limited to ISI-listed journals.<br />
• Web <strong>of</strong> Science ‘cited reference’ is limited to citations from ISI-listed<br />
journals.<br />
• Web <strong>of</strong> Science ‘cited reference’ counts citations to non-ISI journals only<br />
with respect to <strong>the</strong> first author.<br />
• Web <strong>of</strong> Science has poor aggregation <strong>of</strong> minor variations <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> same title.<br />
• Web <strong>of</strong> Science has very limited coverage <strong>of</strong> non-Engl ish sources. [pp3-4]<br />
4.1.2.03 From my own study, <strong>the</strong> Web <strong>of</strong> Science is incomplete as to <strong>the</strong> journals that it<br />
lists. While my research revealed that 627 different journals contributed to <strong>the</strong> episteme<br />
from <strong>the</strong> Web <strong>of</strong> Science database, <strong>the</strong>se journals were not necessarily complete as to full<br />
listings <strong>of</strong> volumes and issues. In Graphic 4a <strong>the</strong> first column contains two entries, <strong>the</strong><br />
first is <strong>the</strong> journal name and <strong>the</strong> second entry is <strong>the</strong> first issue <strong>of</strong> that journa l that is used in<br />
<strong>the</strong> Web <strong>of</strong> Science citation list. If <strong>the</strong> Web <strong>of</strong> Science was complete in its listings <strong>of</strong><br />
journals, <strong>the</strong>n all journals would start from Volume: 1 Issue: 1, plus any special issues.<br />
However for <strong>the</strong> top twent y one journals from my study <strong>the</strong>re are some significant journals<br />
such as those listed below where <strong>the</strong> first volume in <strong>the</strong> Web <strong>of</strong> Science database (as<br />
shown in paren<strong>the</strong>sis) are significantly distant from <strong>the</strong> actual first volume produced by<br />
those jour nals.<br />
• Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. (Volume: 13 Issue: 1 2001)<br />
•<br />
•<br />
•<br />
•<br />
Entrepreneurship – Theory and Practice. (Volume: 28 Issue: 2 2003)<br />
Journal <strong>of</strong> Small Business Management. (Volume: 33 Issue : Jan 1995)<br />
International Small Business Journal. (Volume: 21 Issue: 1 2003)<br />
Harvard Business Review. (Volume: 34 Issue : 1 1956)<br />
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