In order to assess Microsoft Academic as a useful data source for evaluative
bibliometrics it is crucial to know, if citation counts from Microsoft Academic
could be used in common normalization procedures and whether the normalized
scores agree with the scores calculated on the basis of established databases.
To this end, we calculate the field-normalized citation scores of the
publications of a computer science institute based on Microsoft Academic and
the Web of Science and estimate the statistical concordance of the scores. Our
results suggest that field-normalized citation scores can be calculated with
Microsoft Academic and that these scores are in good agreement with the
corresponding scores from the Web of Science.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures, 1 tabl
