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www.nifustep.noNIFU STEP Studies in Innovation, Research and Education

Bibliographic databases

Towards a comprehensive coverage of the social sciences and humanities

Gunnar Sivertsen

Norwegian Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research, and Education

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Overview of this presentation

1. Publishing patterns in the SSH

a. Publication types

b. Language and internationalization

c. Citations

2. Data sources for bibliometrics in the SSH

a. Coverage in Web of Science and Scopus

b. “The core journals” and the other literatures

c. Defining scholarly literature

d. The library information systems

e. Institutional or national databases

3. Towards integrated data sources in the SSH

1. Need for a new database?

2. The role of collaborating research councils

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Overview of this presentation

1. Publishing patterns in the SSH

a. Publication types

b. Language and internationalization

c. Citations

2. Data sources for bibliometrics in the SSH

a. Coverage in Web of Science and Scopus

b. “The core journals” and the other literatures

c. Defining scholarly literature

d. The library information systems

e. Institutional or national databases

3. Towards integrated data sources in the SSH

1. Need for a new database?

2. The role of collaborating research coucils

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Publication types in five major fields Based on 33.000 (fractionalized) Norwegian publications from 2005-2008

Natural Sciences

Health Sciences

Engineering

Social Sciences

Humanities

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

ISSN articles ISBN articles Books

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Publication types in selected humanities

Classical studies

Linguistics

History

Romance philology

Scandinavian studies

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

ISSN articles ISBN articles Books

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Publication types in selected social sciences

Law

Educational research

Sociology

Political Science

Economics

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

ISSN articles ISBN articles Books

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Scholarly book series – well established in many fields

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Scholarly book series with electronic distribution

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Overview of this presentation

1. Publishing patterns in the SSH

a. Publication types

b. Language and internationalization

c. Citations

2. Data sources for bibliometrics in the SSH

a. Coverage in Web of Science and Scopus

b. “The core journals” and the other literatures

c. Defining scholarly literature

d. The library information systems

e. Institutional or national databases

3. Towards integrated data sources in the SSH

1. Need for a new database?

2. The role of collaborating research councils

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Percentage publications in non-Scandinavian languagesBibliographic database for Norwegian HE institutions

2,005 2,006 2,007 2,008 0 %

10 %

20 %

30 %

40 %

50 %

60 %

70 %

80 %

90 %

100 %

Nat

Eng

Health

Soc

Hum

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Use of foreign language (in per cent) across all fields

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sk

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p

Med

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Use of foreign language (in per cent) across all fields

Nordi

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p

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Dental research

Physics

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Use of foreign language (in per cent) across all fields

Nordi

sk

Litte

ratu

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nska

p

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Law

Economics

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Use of foreign language (in per cent) across all fields

Nordi

sk

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ratu

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p

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le ti

dssk

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Nordic language and literature

English language and literature

German language and literature

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Use of foreign language (in per cent) across all fields

Nordi

sk

Litte

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p

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Nordic language and literature

English language and literature

German language and literature

Philosophy

History

Media and Communication

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Overview of this presentation

1. Publishing patterns in the SSH

a. Publication types

b. Language and internationalization

c. Citations

2. Data sources for bibliometrics in the SSH

a. Coverage in Web of Science and Scopus

b. “The core journals” and the other literatures

c. Defining scholarly literature

d. The library information systems

e. Institutional or national databases

3. Towards integrated data sources in the SSH

1. Need for a new database?

2. The role of collaborating research councils

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Percentage of references in leading journals that cite other journal articles and articles indexed in ISI

Immunology

Geosciences

Physics

Engineering

Mathematics

0 % 20 % 40 % 60 % 80 % 100 %

ISI journalsJournals

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Percentage of references in leading journals that cite other journal articles and articles indexed in ISI

Law

Economics

Educational Research

Sociology

Political Science

0 % 20 % 40 % 60 % 80 % 100 %

ISI journalsJournals

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Percentage of references in leading journals that cite other journal articles and articles indexed in ISI

Linguistics

Classical studies

History

Literature

Area studies

0 % 20 % 40 % 60 % 80 % 100 %

ISI journalsJournals

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Explanations?

SSH publications also cite or may be cited by: scholarly publications in books old scholarly publications reports and official documents other non-scholarly publications

Their reference lists may also have references to: the textual material that is studied, e.g. religious or fictious

texts non-textual material, e.g. exhibitions or artistic works

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Overview of this presentation

1. Publishing patterns in the SSH

a. Publication types

b. Language and internationalization

c. Citations

2. Data sources for bibliometrics in the SSH

a. Coverage in Web of Science and Scopus

b. “The core journals” and the other literatures

c. Defining scholarly literature

d. The library information systems

e. Institutional or national databases

3. Towards integrated data sources in the SSH

1. Need for a new database?

2. The role of collaborating research councils

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Coverage of all scientific publications in Norway’s HE sectorBased on 33.000 (fractionalized) publications from 2005-2008

Health Sciences Natural Sciences

Engineering Social Sciences Humanities0 %

10 %

20 %

30 %

40 %

50 %

60 %

70 %

80 %

90 %

100 %

Scopus

Web of Science

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Web of Science coverage in selected social sciences Based on 33.000 (fractionalized) publications from 2005-2008

Law

Educational Research

Sociology

Political Science

Economics

0 % 10 % 20 % 30 % 40 % 50 % 60 % 70 % 80 % 90 % 100 %

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Two Swedish journals in literature: Moderna Språk is indexed by ISI, but Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap is not

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Sociologisk Forskning is indexed by ISI, but Statsvetenskaplig tidsskrift is not

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Overview of this presentation

1. Publishing patterns in the SSH

a. Publication types

b. Language and internationalization

c. Citations

2. Data sources for bibliometrics in the SSH

a. Coverage in Web of Science and Scopus

b. “The core journals” and the other literatures

c. Defining scholarly literature

d. The library information systems

e. Institutional or national databases

3. Towards integrated data sources in the SSH

1. Need for a new database?

2. The role of collaborating research councils

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Is the world of scholarly literatures unlimited?

The ”core journals”

Other scolarly journals

All the scholarly literatures

Bradford’s law of scatteringplus the limitations of the commercial market

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Overview of this presentation

1. Publishing patterns in the SSH

a. Publication types

b. Language and internationalization

c. Citations

2. Data sources for bibliometrics in the SSH

a. Coverage in Web of Science and Scopus

b. “The core journals” and the other literatures

c. Defining scholarly literature

d. The library information systems

e. Institutional or national databases

3. Towards integrated data sources in the SSH

1. Need for a new database?

2. The role of collaborating research councils

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Delimitation of publication data by definition

Definition

A scientific or scholarly publication must:

1. present new insight

2. in a form that allows the research findings to be verified and/or used in new research activity

3. in a language and with a distribution that makes the publication accessible for a relevant audience

4. in a publication channel with peer review*)

*) In addition: Publication channels with authors coming mainly from only one institution are not included.

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Three main publication types

Channel

Type

E.g. scientific article in Nature or scholarly ISBN-title on Oxford University Press.

1) Article in ISSN-title2) Article in ISBN-title

3) ISBN-title

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Dynamic records of scientific and scholarly ISSN-titles og ISBN-publishers

0001-9887 Africa Today

0001-9909 African Affairs

1062-4783 African American Review

0263-0338 African Archaeological Review

0001-9933 African Arts

1017-6772 African Development Review

0145-2258 African Economic History

1021-3589 African Entomology

1472-5843 African Identities

1684-5315 African Journal of Biotechnology

1021-9730 African Journal of Crop Science

0141-6707 African Journal of Ecology

1438-7890African Journal of Environmental Assessment and Management

1684-5378African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition

1015-8618 African Journal of Neurological Sciences

0065-4000 African Literature Today

CABI Publishing

Cambridge University Press

Cappelen Akademisk Forlag

Carfax Publishing

Carl Heymanns Verlag

Carlsson bokförlag

Catholic University of America Press

Central European University Press

Channel View Publications

Chinese University Press

Christian Ejlers´s Forlag

18,000 ISSN-titles and 1,000 book publishers so far

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All channels can be searched, and new channels can be suggested

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Coverage of Norwegian journal articles in WoS or ScopusBased on scholarly ISSN publications from Norway’s HE sector 2005-2008

0

2,000

4,000

6,000

8,000

10,000

12,000

14,000

16,000

18,000

5,327

1,152 34 214

16,164

2,388

953

3,583

JournalsPublications

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Publications in Media and Communication 2005-2008from the Norwegian Higher Education Sector

30 other journals

Media Culture and Society

Informacijos mokslai

European Journal of Communication

Javnost - The Public

Television and New Media

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture

Digital formations

Norsk Medietidsskrift

0 10 20 30 40 50 60

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Overview of this presentation

1. Publishing patterns in the SSH

a. Publication types

b. Language and internationalization

c. Citations

2. Data sources for bibliometrics in the SSH

a. Coverage in Web of Science and Scopus

b. “The core journals” and the other literatures

c. Defining scholarly literature

d. The library information systems

e. Institutional or national databases

3. Towards integrated data sources in the SSH

1. Need for a new database?

2. The role of collaborating research councils

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Indexing all articles in a large selection of journals in Spanish and Portuguese

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Indexing all scientific and scholarly journals in Croatia

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Indexing all scholarly journals in Norwegian

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All types of publications are searchable – in economics

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ECONIS has standardized names of authors, institutions, and publication channels

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Overview of this presentation

1. Publishing patterns in the SSH

a. Publication types

b. Language and internationalization

c. Citations

2. Data sources for bibliometrics in the SSH

a. Coverage in Web of Science and Scopus

b. “The core journals” and the other literatures

c. Defining scholarly literature

d. The library information systems

e. Institutional or national databases

3. Towards integrated data sources in the SSH

1. Need for a new database?

2. The role of collaborating research councils

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Publicatons in ”annual reports” are searchable in a structured database

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From ISIFrom Norart

In Norway: One shared national database for all universities. Imported references from bibliographic data sources are validated by researchers or their assistants. Missing references are added.

Books

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VABB-SHW

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Institutional research profiles in three different universities (based on publication points 2005-2008)

General Technical Agricultural0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

Engineering

Natural Sci

Health Sci

Social Sci

Humanities

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Overview of this presentation

1. Publishing patterns in the SSH

a. Publication types

b. Language and internationalization

c. Citations

2. Data sources for bibliometrics in the SSH

a. Coverage in Web of Science and Scopus

b. “The core journals” and the other literatures

c. Defining scholarly literature

d. The library information systems

e. Institutional or national databases

3. Towards integrated data sources in the SSH

1. Need for a new database?

2. The role of collaborating research councils

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A new bibliometric database?

Among several recommendations: National documentation

systems in combination with commercial data sources

Define international standards for national documentation systems

Negotiate expansions and/or a new database with the suppliers of Web of Science and/or Scopus

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The ERIH lists

Initial list Revised lists

A – high international recognition International

B – international recognition International

C – domestic importance National

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Overview of this presentation

1. Publishing patterns in the SSH

a. Publication types

b. Language and internationalization

c. Citations

2. Data sources for bibliometrics in the SSH

a. Coverage in Web of Science and Scopus

b. “The core journals” and the other literatures

c. Defining scholarly literature

d. The library information systems

e. Institutional or national databases

3. Towards integrated data sources in the SSH

1. Need for a new database?

2. The role of collaborating research councils

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Integration of existing and developing data sources?

Commercial citation databases

International journals and book

series

National databases, library systems and indexing services

National publicationsAttribution to persons

and institutions

Research councils in international

collaborationStandards and

thresholds