The secrets behind Web of Science’s DOI search

Junwen Zhu; Fang Liu; Weishu Liu

doi:10.1007/s11192-019-03091-2

The secrets behind Web of Science’s DOI search

Junwen Zhu
, Fang Liu
, Weishu Liu^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Faculty of Education

Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics

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Abstract

With the flourish of scientific literature, the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is increasingly adopted in academia to uniquely identify research articles. By using Web of Science’s DOI search, we find that millions of DOI names appear to begin with an alphabetic character which violates the naming rule of DOI. In this study, we try to uncover the secrets behind Web of Science’s DOI search and explain this mysterious phenomenon. A similar investigation is also conducted by using the Scopus database. A few suggestions are provided at the end of this paper.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1745-1753
Number of pages	9
Journal	Scientometrics
Volume	119
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03091-2
State	Published - Jun 2019

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Digital Object Identifier
Scopus
Web of Science

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