Many productions are not indexed (or very few) by Web of knowledge or Scopus , like maps, codes, participation to conferences (most of them), posters, research notes, thesis, books, etc...
Among these productions, some of them get a very high number of citations, which are not taken into account as regular citations, and so are not sued to calculate the current WOK and Scopus h index for individuals. But they are visible on Google Scholar and Researchgate.
These productions are also visible in WOK and Scopus so called "secondary documents", but are not counted as valuable citations, despite they are cited in indexed papers in that case.
Does this mean that these works do not deserve any scientific interest?
Should not they be also counted as any other citation by web of knowledge and scopus ?
Hi Mahe
Thanks for the highly Important Question and a very timely issue that must be discussed.
A concrete example of this is the PhD thesis and books.
Thesis is the results of several years of scientific research and finally serves as guideline for other students and researchers worldwide. To my opinion it is the right time to opening a wider discussion with full transparency in order to establish the benchmarks on how, when and under what conditions the production must be correctly cited.
With my best regards Mahe
Thanks for this comment Salim. I agree with you that this kind of scientific production should be counted as other papers. One of the reasons for which they are not counted on the same level as papers, is that most probably they are not peer-reviewed on the same way than regular papers.
BUT to present a PhD thesis, several colleagues read the thesis and certify the quality of the research, which is most often already published in papers !
So the citations to books and thesis should count on the same level than journal papers.
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