Serhii Nazarovets<p>A new study by Liu & Wang (2025) uncovers a shocking issue: millions of Scopus records have affiliation addresses but are labelled as "country-undefined." </p><p>:doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.25011" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.1002/asi.25011</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Why does "USA" ≠ "United States"? How can "United Kingdom" get lost? A critical problem for research evaluation and policy decisions! </p><p>Time for Scopus to act! ✅</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Bibliometrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bibliometrics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Metadata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Metadata</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AcademicPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ResearchEvaluation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchEvaluation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/DataQuality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataQuality</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Scientometrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scientometrics</span></a></p>