appropriate coverage of scholarly publishing in the social sciences and humanities

Appropriate coverage of scholarly publishing in the social sciences and humanities Gunnar Sivertsen

Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education, Oslo, Norway

Law

Theology

Literary studies

Educational research

Archaeology

Linguistics

Political Science

Psychology

Economics

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Overview of this presentation

1. Towards a Bibliometric Database for the SSH?

2. Publishing patterns in the SSH

3. Appropriate coverage – a European overview

Overview of this presentation

1. Towards a Bibliometric Database for the SSH?

2. Publishing patterns in the SSH

3. Appropriate coverage – a European overview

A new bibliometric database?A report produced by SPRU at the University of Sussex for the British, Dutch, French, and German research councils, and the European Science Foundation

Two of the recommendations:

Negotiate expansions and/or a new database with the suppliers of Web of Science and/or Scopus

Integrate national and institutional documentation systems

A new bibliometric database?A report produced by SPRU at the University of Sussex for the British, Dutch, French, and German research councils, and the European Science Foundation

Two of the recommendations:

Negotiate expansions and/or a new database with the suppliers of Web of Science and/or Scopus

Integrate national and institutional documentation systems

Indexed journals

Journals and series

Books

Health Sciences

Natural Sciences

Engineering Social Sciences

Humanities0%

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30%

40%

50%

60%

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Coverage of 70,500 scholarly publications from the higher education sector in Norway 2005-2012.

ScopusISI Web of Science

Percentage journal articles in ISI journals

Law

Theology

Literary studies

Educational research

Archaeology

Linguistics

Political Science

Psychology

Economics

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

Percentage journal articles in ISI journals

Law

Theology

Literary studies

Educational research

Archaeology

Linguistics

Political Science

Psychology

Economics

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

A new bibliometric database?A report produced by SPRU at the University of Sussex for the British, Dutch, French, and German research councils, and the European Science Foundation

Two of the recommendations:

Negotiate expansions and/or a new database with the suppliers of Web of Science and/or Scopus

Integrate national and institutional documentation systems

Cristin – the Current Research Information System in Norway:

Complete records of all scholarly peer reviewed publications at all research organizations in the public sector

Used for:

• Information• Statistics• Annual reports• In the publication lists of

research proposals• As a bibliography for open

archives• As links to full text• In national budget allocations for

the institutions

References imported from ISI Web of Science

Book and article in book added

Overview of this presentation

1. Towards a Bibliometric Database for the SSH?

2. Publishing patterns in the SSH

3. Appropriate coverage – a European overview

The shares of journal articles, articles in books and monographs in the scholarly publication patterns

Engineering

Nat Sci

Health Sci

Soc Sci

Humanities

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

Journal articles Articles in books Monographs

Humanities: Changes in major publication types between 2006-2007 and 2010-2011

Natl lang Jnls Natl lang Books Int lang Jnls Int lang Books0

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2006-2007 2010-2011

Overview of this presentation

1. Towards a Bibliometric Database for the SSH?

2. Publishing patterns in the SSH

3. Appropriate coverage – a European overview

Appropriate coverage of scholarly publishing in the social sciences and humanities - a European overview

Countries with comprehensive bibliographic data in the Social Sciences and the Humanities

Do not have comprehensive

bibliographic data for SSH

Do have comprehensive bibliographic data for SSH

but the level of use is unknown

Countries where the questionnaire has not been answered yet

The comprehensive bibliographic data for SSH

is used at the national/regional level

Gunnar Sivertsengunnar.sivertsen@nifu.no

Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU), Norway

Elea Giménez-Toledo elea.gimenez@cchs.csic.es

Center for Human and Social Sciences (CCHS) Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain

Tim C. E. Engels  tim.engels@ua.ac.be

Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM), University of Antwerp, Belgium

Countries with comprehensive bibliographic data in the Social Sciences and the Humanities

Do not have comprehensive

bibliographic data for SSH

Do have comprehensive bibliographic data for SSH

but the level of use is unknown

Countries where the questionnaire has not been answered yet

The comprehensive bibliographic data for SSH

is used at the national/regional level

Also green: Czech Republic

Preliminary results I

• More than 10 European countries have achieved comprehensive bibliographic data for the SSH.

• Except Germany and Spain, these are all smaller countries (in terms of population)

• Although in several countries progress towards achieving full coverage is being made, Croatia have actually reverted to evaluation using the Web of Science only. In Spain, support to systems that provide quality indicators for national journals has been weakened.

Preliminary results II

All countries that have comprehensive SSH data available, use it for research information, statistics and studies.

Except Germany and Spain, all countries also use it for institutional funding.

In several countries we see increasing openness, e.g. with the generation of online public access catalogues, statistics and even full text repositories.