Comparative analysis of book citations in social science journals by Central and Eastern European authors

Jokić, Maja; Mervar, Andrea; Mateljan, Stjepan

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“…The importance of bibliographic databases has increased enormously, with Scopus (Zuccala and Cornacchia, 2016) and Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection (Gorraiz et al , 2014; Tsay et al , 2016) being two of the most widely used bibliographic databases (Pech and Delgado, 2020; Pranckut, 2021). Jokić et al (2019) assessed the role of authored and edited books in scholarly communication through citation analysis, and the data for book citation analysis were references from research articles published in 2,726 journals indexed in Scopus. Awan et al (2019) conducted an observational study for assessing research publications using the Scopus database.…”

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Assessing books’ academic impacts via integrated computation of multi-level citation information

Zhou

2022

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Purpose Citations have been used as a common basis to measure the academic accomplishments of scientific books. However, traditional citation analysis ignored content mining and without consideration of citation equivalence, which may lead to the decline of evaluation reliability. Hence, this paper aims to integrate multi-level citation information to conduct multi-dimensional analysis. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, books’ academic impacts were measured by integrating multi-level citation resources, including books’ citation frequencies and citation-related contents. Specifically, firstly, books’ citation frequencies were counted as the frequency-level metric. Secondly, content-level metrics were detected from multi-dimensional citation contents based on finer-grained mining, including topic extraction on the metadata and citation classification on the citation contexts. Finally, differential metric weighting methods were compared with integrate the multi-level metrics and computing books’ academic impacts. Findings The experimental results indicate that the integration of multiple citation resources is necessary, as it can significantly improve the comprehensiveness of the evaluation results. Meanwhile, compared with the type differences of books, disciplinary differences need more attention when evaluating the academic impacts of books. Originality/value Academic impact assessment of books via integrating multi-level citation information can provide more detailed evaluation information and cover shortcomings of methods based on single citation data. Moreover, the method proposed in this paper is publication independent, which can be used to measure other publications besides books.

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Assessing books’ academic impacts via integrated computation of multi-level citation information

Zhou

2022

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“…Consequently, journal bibliometric data are more stable and reliable than those for books and book chapters, both across fields and across time, as indicated by growth rates (Chi, 2016 ). They are also the most common publication type across several social sciences disciplines, the publications of which reference on average about 7% edited books and 20% books (Jokic et al, 2019 ). Across eight European countries, the grand average was estimated to 56.5% journal articles, ranging from 49% in Poland to 77% in Slovakia, with Denmark and Norway close to 60%, two Scandinavian countries neighbouring to Sweden (Kulczycki et al, 2018 ).…”

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Numbers of publications and citations for researchers in fields pertinent to the social services: a comparison of peer-reviewed journal publications across six disciplines

Madison

Sundell

2022

Scientometrics

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Timely dissemination of knowledge is essential and fosters development of knowledge both within academe and the wider society, not least for knowledge that serves practises outside of academia. Here, we compare six disciplines which provide health-related knowledge that serve the health and social services. Most previous research compares the size and impact of the body of publications belonging to each discipline, which ignores the distribution of seniority, productivity, and impact amongst researchers. Instead, we consider the whole population of academics in Sweden employed or active within each discipline, including those who have nil publications. The disciplines form three clusters, where researchers in Public Health and Nursing and Caring science claim about 15 articles per author, Psychology about 10, and Education, Sociology and Social Work less than four. Their numbers of citations follow the same pattern, and are substantially correlated with the number of articles. Tenured or full professors had about 50% more publications and citations per publication than had associate professors. The distributions indicate clear modes at 0, 4, and 16 publications for each cluster, and provide the proportions of researchers within each discipline who have no such publications at all. We discuss the implications of these results for policy, practice, and knowledge quality in the social services and the welfare sector.

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“…During the last two decades there was a strong shift in the assessment of the research performance [1][2][3][4] at the different scales, starting from the country level and moving to institutions, journals and researchers. As a consequence, a rich recent literature has developed to propose different methodologies, tools and quantitative and qualitative indicators for ranking the universities and research institutions and establishing criteria for assessing the assessment of researchers [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12].…”

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“…The recent literature includes few dozens of articles published on different issues of research performance in Eastern European countries, using more or less scientometric indicators or indexes [6,10,12,23,29,30]. The dominant topics of these articles include comparative analyses between the Eastern European countries, between the Central and Eastern European ones [23], between these countries and different countries from Western Europe [31] or the evaluation of the impact of Brexit on the collaboration between the European Union (EU) countries [32].…”

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An Overview of the Dynamics of Relative Research Performance in Central-Eastern Europe Using a Ranking-Based Analysis Derived from SCImago Data

Ianoş

Petrişor

2020

Publications

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In recent times, rankings seem to play an increasingly important role, influencing the lives of individual researchers or academics and their institutions. Individual and institutional rankings used for promotion and research or academic funding seem to illustrate more and more the “publish or perish” mantra, relying sometimes almost exclusively on publications and their citations. Eastern Europe found itself part of this new world after a period of isolation, uneven for the countries within the area. The present study uses SCImago data to perform a regional analysis of individual and aggregated domains, for individual countries and the entire region, based on a novel “adjusted citation index”, in order to measure the performance and identify, using correlations with additional data and information, the mechanisms that can increase the research performance of a country. In a nutshell, the results indicate that the national research policies are responsible for performance. Adaptive research policies simulate a real performance, in comparison with more restrictive ones, which are more likely to stimulate unethical behaviors such as self-citations or citation stacking, especially when used for the assessment of researchers. The importance of the findings lies in the possibility of replicating the methodology, adapting it to different spatial scales.

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Comparative analysis of book citations in social science journals by Central and Eastern European authors

Cited by 17 publications

References 61 publications

Assessing books’ academic impacts via integrated computation of multi-level citation information

Assessing books’ academic impacts via integrated computation of multi-level citation information

Numbers of publications and citations for researchers in fields pertinent to the social services: a comparison of peer-reviewed journal publications across six disciplines

An Overview of the Dynamics of Relative Research Performance in Central-Eastern Europe Using a Ranking-Based Analysis Derived from SCImago Data

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