Changing publication patterns in the Social Sciences and Humanities, 2000–2009

Engels, Tim; Ossenblok, Truyken L. B.; Spruyt, E.

doi:10.1007/s11192-012-0680-2

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“…The association with other authors, whether from domestic institutions or abroad, favors the impact of research (Katz & Martin, 1997;Glänzel, 2001). This positive relationship was also determined for the case of Argentina in other studies (Miguel, 2008;Miguel & Moya, 2009), although the tendency may vary depending on the country, sector or discipline in question (Leimu & Koricheva, 2005;Glänzel, Debackere, Thjis, & Schubert, 2006;Engels, Ossenblok & Spruyt, 2012;Ossenblok, Verleysen & Engels, 2014).…”

Section: Single Authorship Vs Co-authorship and National And Internatsupporting

confidence: 72%

What factors affect the visibility of Argentinean publications in humanities and social sciences in Scopus? Some evidence beyond the geographic realm of research

2014

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Argentina´s patterns of publication in the humanities and social sciences were studied for the period 2003-2012, using the Scopus database and distinguishing the geographic realm of the research. The results indicate that "topics of national scope" have grown and gained international visibility. They can be broadly characterized as having Spanish as the language of publication, and a marked preference for single authorship; in contrast, the publication of "global topics", not geographically limited, characteristically have English as the language of divulgation, and institutional collaboration is stronger and more consolidated.Citation is apparently not determined only by the geographic realm of research, but also by language of publication, co-authorship, and the profiles of the journals where published. These results could contribute to constructive reflection upon publishing policy. The existence of a community of journals that tolerates biased patterns may make researchers echo and perpetuate poor practices, constructing or adapting the channels of communication. Such results also prove useful as a point of reference when evaluation criteria are elaborated by scientific committees, as unsupervised promotion and evaluation patterns could become Pre-print of: Scientometrics, DOI 10.1007/s11192-014-1414-4 2 based on local or overly subjective precepts, disregarding the disciplinary practices of the international scientific community.

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Section: Single Authorship Vs Co-authorship and National And Internatsupporting

confidence: 72%

What factors affect the visibility of Argentinean publications in humanities and social sciences in Scopus? Some evidence beyond the geographic realm of research

2014

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“…However, there are some indications that this is changing, at least for smaller countries. A recent study of 2000-2009 publication patterns in the Social Sciences and Humanities in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium (Engels et al, 2012) showed that in Psychology and Economics & Business nearly 90% of publications were in English. 5 It is likely that similar patterns would be found in the Netherlands and Israel, the only non-native-English-speaking countries in this cluster.…”

Section: Porter's Diamondmentioning

confidence: 99%

The competitive advantage of nations: An application to academia

Harzing

Giroud²

2014

Journal of Informetrics

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Within the field of bibliometrics, there is sustained interest in how nations "compete" in terms of academic disciplines, and what determinants explain why countries may have a specific advantage in one discipline over another. However, this literature has not, to date, presented a comprehensive structured model that could be used in the interpretation of a country's research profile and academic output. In this paper, we use frameworks from international business and economics to present such a model. Our study makes four major contributions. First, we include a very wide range of countries and disciplines, explicitly including the Social Sciences, which unfortunately are excluded in most bibliometrics studies. Second, we apply theories of revealed comparative advantage and the competitive advantage of nations to academic disciplines. Third, we cluster our 34 countries into five different groups that have distinct combinations of revealed comparative advantage in five major disciplines. Finally, based on our empirical work and prior literature, we present an academic diamond that details factors likely to explain a country's research profile and competitiveness in certain disciplines.

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“…The VABB-SHW is used in the performance-based research funding system (PRFS) in Flanders and the coverage of this database appears to be close to exhaustive (for a full account see Engels et al 8 ).…”

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“…In the social sciences about 9% are edited books and about 81% are book chapters. 8 Furthermore, a small increase in the number and share of edited books and book chapters has been observed in Flanders between 2000-2002 and 2009-2011. 9 This implies that edited books are an important publication output, especially in the humanities.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, edited books have been included in the research funding system in Flanders since 2010. 8 National incentives like this are probably reflected at the institutional and individual levels, 15,16 although there is little real evidence of this. 17,18 Therefore, in Flanders, individual researchers may well be encouraged to take on book editorships, at least from the second half of the period under study (2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011) onwards.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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