Can we rank scholarly book publishers? A bibliometric experiment with the field of history

Zuccala, Alesia A.; Guns, Raf; Cornacchia, Roberto; Bod, Rens

doi:10.1002/asi.23267

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“…Perhaps the most salient finding is a coherent set of twelve dimensions (latent factors) clearly organized in more or less proximal areas of research, among which we find classics, religion, and archeology; linguistics and the history and philosophy of science; literature and history; arts; music. A different perspective is taken by Zuccala et al (2015), who attempt to rank scholarly book publishers in historiography using citations to books from articles indexed in Scopus. The resulting map of publishers shows a strong polarity toward prestigious English or American publishers, with only some topical organization.…”

Section: Mapping the Humanitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Core Literature of the Historians of Venice

Colavizza

2017

Front. Digit. Humanit.

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Over the past decades, the humanities have been accumulating a growing body of literature at an increasing pace. How does this impact their traditional organization into disciplines and fields of research therein? This article considers history, by examining a citation network among recent monographs on the history of Venice. The resulting network is almost connected, clusters of monographs are identifiable according to specific disciplinary areas (history, history of architecture, and history of arts) or periods of time (middle ages, early modern, and modern history), and a map of the recent trends in the field is sketched. Most notably a set of highly cited works emerges as the core literature of the historians of Venice. This core literature comprises a mix of primary sources, works of reference, and scholarly monographs and is important in keeping the field connected: monographs usually cite a combination of few core and a variety of less well-cited works. Core primary sources and works of reference never age, while core scholarly monographs are replaced at a very slow rate by new ones. The reliance of new publications on the core literature is slowly rising over time, as the field gets increasingly more varied.

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Section: Mapping the Humanitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Core Literature of the Historians of Venice

Colavizza

2017

Front. Digit. Humanit.

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“…To ascertain the degree to which the books from Group B might be characterized as academic histories or popular histories, we make use of a top-50 book publisher list for the field of history, produced by Zuccala et al (2015). All book titles published by a top ranking university press (e.g.…”

Section: Characteristics Of Books With High Citations and High Readermentioning

confidence: 99%

Altmetrics for the humanities

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Cornacchia³

et al. 2015

Aslib Journal of Info Mgmt

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the value of Goodreads reader ratings for measuring the wider impact of scholarly books published in the field of History. Design/methodology/approach – Book titles were extracted from the reference lists of articles that appeared in 604 history journals indexed in Scopus (2007-2011). The titles were cleaned and matched with WorldCat.org (for publisher information) as well as Goodreads (for reader ratings) using an API. A set of 8,538 books was first filtered based on Dewey Decimal Classification class 900 “History and Geography”, then a subset of 997 books with the highest citations and reader ratings (i.e. top 25 per cent) was analysed separately based on additional characteristics. Findings – A weak correlation (0.212) was found between citation counts and reader rating counts for the full data set (n=8,538). An additional correlation for the subset of 997 books indicated a similar weak correlation (0.190). Further correlations between citations, reader ratings, written reviews, and library holdings indicate that a reader rating on Goodreads was more likely to be given to a book held in an international library, including both public and academic libraries. Originality/value – Research on altmetrics has focused almost exclusively on scientific journal articles appearing on social media services (e.g. Twitter, Facebook). In this paper we show the potential of Goodreads reader ratings to identify the impact of books beyond academia. As a unique altmetric data source, Goodreads can allow scholarly authors from the social sciences and humanities to measure the wider impact of their books.

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“…The use of citations for the development of book publishers' rankings, taking Scopus as the source of information, was first used in the work of Zuccala et al (2014), with a low correlation. This is also the case with correlations between citations received by books referenced in documents indexed in Scopus and WorldCat libcitations Guns, 2013) Also, the development of methods for the depuration of the results (mainly, deduplication) from Google Books facilitates data gathering and derived calculations on citations from and to books (Kousha;Thelwall, 2015).…”

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Review of national and international initiatives on books and book publishers assessment

Giménez-Toledo¹,

Mañana-Rodríguez²,

Artigas³

2015

EPI

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This article presents various systems for assessing academic books and/or book publishers in several European countries and two in Latin America. It has been structured according to the methodologies used in each system: expert opinion, reviews, holdings in academic libraries, specialization, original selection procedures, citations, and systems integrating different variables. The objective is to offer a panoramic view for evaluators, authors, librarians, and editors to use in decision making. Also included are conclusions about various assessment systems, their potential, and the optimum conditions for their use in practice. ResumenSe presentan varios sistemas de evaluación de libros y/o editoriales científicas en varios países europeos y dos latinoamericanos con las metodologías que aplican: opinión de expertos, reseñas, presencia en bibliotecas académicas, especialización, sistemas de selección de originales, citas y sistemas integradores de variables. Con ello se ofrece una visión panorámica que permitirá a los evaluadores, autores, bibliotecarios y editores contar con información para tomar decisiones. Las conclusiones son útiles para utilizar diferentes sistemas de evaluación, sus potencialidades y las condiciones óptimas de uso en la práctica. Palabras claveEvaluación de libros; Editoriales académicas; Monografías académicas; Indicadores de calidad; Humanidades y ciencias sociales; Evaluación científica.Giménez-Toledo, Elea; Mañana-Rodríguez, Jorge; Tejada-Artigas, Carlos-Miguel (2015). "Review of national and international initiatives on books and book publishers assessment". El profesional de la información, v. 24, n. 6, pp. 705-716. http://dx.doi.org/10.3145/epi.2015.nov.02

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Can we rank scholarly book publishers? A bibliometric experiment with the field of history

Cited by 66 publications

References 54 publications

The Core Literature of the Historians of Venice

The Core Literature of the Historians of Venice

Altmetrics for the humanities

Review of national and international initiatives on books and book publishers assessment

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