أطروحات الدكتوراه المكشفة على ProQuest : دراسة في قياسات Google Scholar و Mendeley

Abstract EN

Scientific theses, especially doctoral theses, represent one of the most important scientific tributaries for academic researchers, and despite their scientific and academic importance, citation databases such as Scopus and WoS do not reveal this category of information vessels, and therefore it is difficult to evaluate and measure the scientific impact of it by measuring the volume of citations with those Theses, and accordingly this study sought to present a research strategy to retrieve reference citations for doctoral theses on the Google Scholar, where the study was extracted - relying on the web-based approach and domesticated in the descriptive analytical approach - (942841) a reference citation for (117434) thesis, and the volume of reference citations was compared From GS with the number of Mendeley readers, and based on numerical comparisons, it was found that GS supports the possibility of measuring the scientific impact of theses, regardless of the date on which those theses were available, as 2019 had the highest rate of 21.6% of the dissertations revealed on ProQuest, while the study monitored ((398 780 readers) Mendeley's thesis study.

The study used Spearman's coefficient to measure the size and nature of the association between each of the reference citations.

For the study of theses in GS and the number of Mendeley readers, which concluded that there is a positive correlation, and to conduct a categorical and qualitative analysis of the characteristics of scientific materials and professional analysis of Mendeley readers, the study assigned 380 doctoral theses available on ProQuest and exposed on GS, where it was found that 54.72% of the scientific citations revealed in GS for theses The doctoral subject of the sample was the share of scientific articles.

The study also concluded that more than half of the study thesis readers are students (58.45%), which is a strong indication of the volume of educational use of the doctoral theses under study.

Overall, we consider it useful to look at the reference consultations for GS to support the scientific impact of more worthy doctoral theses as well as enough time to read, analyze and cite, while Mendeley readers can be seen as a good starting tool for measuring the scientific impact of modern doctoral theses.