STEM Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) Tool Overlap Analysis in 2020: An Open Science Informed Approach Amid Pandemic Budgets

Abstract

Objectives: Compare journal coverage of abstract and indexing tools commonly used within academic science and engineering research. Methods: Title lists of Compendex, Inspec, Reaxys, SciFinder, and Web of Science were provided by their respective publishers. These lists were imported into Excel and the overlap of the ISSN/EISSNs and journal titles was determined using the VLOOKUP command, which determines if the value in one cell can be found in a column of other cells. Correspondence: Joshua Borycz: joshua.borycz@vanderbilt.edu Received: August 24, 2020 Accepted: December 18, 2020 Published: March 1, 2021 Copyright: © 2021 Borycz, Carroll & Eskridge. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. Data Availability: The data are available on the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/eu573). Disclosures: The authors report no conflict of interest. Full-Length Paper STEM Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) Tool Overlap Analysis in 2020: An Open Science Informed Approach Amid Pandemic Budgets Joshua Borycz, Alexander J. Carroll, and Honora N. Eskridge Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA