The Representation of Ethics and Knowledge Organization in the WoS and LISTA Databases
Daniel Martínez‐Ávila, José Augusto Chaves Guimarães, Fábio Assis Pinho, Melodie J. Fox · KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION · 2015
A naïve user seeking introductory information on a topic may perceive a domain as it is shown by the search results in a database; however, inconsistencies in indexing can misrepresent the full picture of the domain by including irrelevant documents or omitting relevant ones, sometimes inexplicably.A bibliometric analysis was conducted on the domain of ethics in knowledge organization in the World of Science (WoS) and Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) databases to discern how it is being presented by search results in those databases and to attempt to determine why inconsistencies occurred.