Comprehensiveness of national bibliographic databases for social sciences and humanities: Findings from a European survey

Sīle, Linda; Pölönen, Janne; Sivertsen, Gunnar; Guns, Raf; Engels, Tim; Arefiev, Pavel Аleksandrovich; Dušková, Marta; Faurbæk, Lotte; Holl, András; Kulczycki, Emanuel; Macan, Bojan; Nelhans, Gustaf; Petr, Michal; Pisk, Marjeta; Soós, Sándor; Stojanovski, Jadranka; Stone, Ari; Šušol, Jaroslav; Teitelbaum, Ruth

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“…This lack of attention has partially changed in the last decade, however, with the introduction of studies that are based on more comprehensive databases, typically at the level of a country or region. In Europe, several national databases or repositories for research output have been set up (Sile et al, 2017(Sile et al, , 2018. Examples of such databases include CROSBI in Croatia, RINC in Russia, and VIRTA in Finland.…”

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To What Extent Do Successive Cohorts Adopt Different Publication Patterns? Peer Review, Language Use, and Publication Types in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Guns

Eykens

Engels

2019

Front. Res. Metr. Anal.

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This article presents a cohort analysis to study changes in the publication patterns of scholars working at a social sciences and humanities (SSH) university department or research unit in Flanders, Belgium. Starting from a comprehensive bibliographic database, we analyze the peer review status, publication language, publication type (journal article, book publication, or proceedings), and coverage in Web of Science (WoS) for publications produced between 2000 and 2014. Through a cohort analysis of the authors, a distinction can be made between effects that reflect changes in the characteristics of how researchers of comparable seniority publish (intracohort change) and effects that are due to the disappearance of researchers and/or introduction of new researchers (cohort succession). Our findings indicate that there is a trend across all five cohorts and in both the social sciences and humanities toward peer review, use of English, and publishing in WoS-indexed journals. While we witness clear intracohort changes, cohort succession effects are shown to be much weaker. The oldest cohort appears to maintain a traditional SSH profile, with lower shares of peer-reviewed publications, publications in English, journal articles, and publications indexed in WoS. As for publication types, all cohorts exhibit a slightly declining share of journal articles over time in favor of book publications, particularly in the humanities. The study shows that cohort analysis is a useful instrument to gain better insight into the evolution of publication patterns.

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To What Extent Do Successive Cohorts Adopt Different Publication Patterns? Peer Review, Language Use, and Publication Types in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Guns

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Engels

2019

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“…Second, to calculate the learned societies' share of the Finnish universities' peer‐reviewed output published in Finland (research question 3), and to find out the share of OA of learned society publications (research question 4), we collected data from the VIRTA publication information service . VIRTA is a data hub that compiles bibliographic information of all scholarly publications from 54 Finnish research organizations, including all 14 universities (Pölönen, ; Sīle, Guns, Sivertsen, & Engels, ; Sīle et al ., ). Bibliographic information can be accessed in JUULI‐portal (http://www.juuli.fi/) and statistical information in VIPUNEN‐portal (https://vipunen.fi/en-gb/).…”

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The role of learned societies in national scholarly publishing

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This study examines the role of learned societies as publishers in Finland based on bibliographic information from two Finnish databases. We studied the share of learned societies' peer-reviewed publication channels (serials with ISSNs and book publishers with distinct ISBN roots) and outputs (journal articles, conference articles, book articles, and monographs) in Finland. We also studied the share of learned societies' open access (OA) publications. In 2018, there were 402 peer-reviewed publication channels in Finland. In 2011-2017, the number of peer-reviewed publications from scholars working in Finnish universities and published in Finland was 17,724. Learned societies publish around 70% of these channels and publications, mostly in the fields of humanities and social sciences.

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“…Some studies employed designated databases, such as PubMed or MathSCInet, but these alternative citation databases exist for only a few disciplines. In other studies, citation data were complemented by national databases, which are more comprehensive in terms of research products but do not contain original citation data [44]. For example, the Norwegian Current Research Information System (CRISTIN) includes a larger array of document types, such as books and book chapters [27]; and the Italian VQR includes all types of research outputs, e.g.…”

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Professional standards in bibliometric research evaluation? A meta-evaluation of European assessment practice 2005–2019

Jappe

2020

PLoS ONE

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Despite growing demand for practicable methods of research evaluation, the use of bibliometric indicators remains controversial. This paper examines performance assessment practice in Europe-first, identifying the most commonly used bibliometric methods and, second, identifying the actors who have defined widespread practices. The framework of this investigation is Abbott's theory of professions, and I argue that indicator-based research assessment constitutes a potential jurisdiction for both individual experts and expert organizations. This investigation was conducted using a search methodology that yielded 138 evaluation studies from 21 EU countries, covering the period 2005 to 2019. Structured content analysis revealed the following findings: (1) Bibliometric research assessment is most frequently performed in the Nordic countries, the Netherlands, Italy, and the United Kingdom. (2) The Web of Science (WoS) is the dominant database used for public research assessment in Europe. (3) Expert organizations invest in the improvement of WoS citation data, and set technical standards with regards to data quality. (4) Citation impact is most frequently assessed with reference to international scientific fields. (5) The WoS classification of science fields retained its function as a de facto reference standard for research performance assessment. A detailed comparison of assessment practices between five dedicated organizations and other individual bibliometric experts suggests that corporate ownership and limited access to the most widely used citation databases have had a restraining effect on the development and diffusion of professional bibliometric methods during this period.

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Comprehensiveness of national bibliographic databases for social sciences and humanities: Findings from a European survey

Cited by 54 publications

References 7 publications

To What Extent Do Successive Cohorts Adopt Different Publication Patterns? Peer Review, Language Use, and Publication Types in the Social Sciences and Humanities

To What Extent Do Successive Cohorts Adopt Different Publication Patterns? Peer Review, Language Use, and Publication Types in the Social Sciences and Humanities

The role of learned societies in national scholarly publishing

Professional standards in bibliometric research evaluation? A meta-evaluation of European assessment practice 2005–2019

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