appropriate coverage of scholarly publishing in the social sciences and humanities
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Appropriate coverage of scholarly publishing in the social sciences and humanities Gunnar Sivertsen Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education, Oslo, Norway. Overview of this presentation. Towards a Bibliometric Database for the SSH? Publishing patterns in the SSH - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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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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
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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
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
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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 [email protected]
Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU), Norway
Elea Giménez-Toledo [email protected]
Center for Human and Social Sciences (CCHS) Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain
Tim C. E. Engels [email protected]
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.