Can Microsoft Academic help to assess the citation impact of academic books?

• Microsoft Academic is a useful automatic tool for assessing citation impact of academic books. • Microsoft Academic found about 60% of academic books indexed by Book Citation Index (BKCI) from 2013 to 2016. • Microsoft Academic found 1.5 to 3.6 times more citations than BKCI in 9 out of 17 fields...
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• Microsoft Academic is a useful automatic tool for assessing citation impact of academic books. • Microsoft Academic found about 60% of academic books indexed by Book Citation Index (BKCI) from 2013 to 2016. • Microsoft Academic found 1.5 to 3.6 times more citations than BKCI in 9 out of 17 fields in all four years. • Microsoft Academic advantage over BKCI for book citation impact assessment is its wider coverage of publications and finding missed citations to books in BKCI. Ausführliche Beschreibung