The difficulty of achieving full coverage of international social science literature and the bibliometric consequences |
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Authors: | Diana Hicks |
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Affiliation: | (1) CHI Research, Inc., 10 White Horse Pike, 08035 Haddon Heights, NJ, (USA) |
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Abstract: | This review of social science bibliometric literature seeks to establish characteristics of the social science literature
and to understand their consequences for the coverage of literature databases and for interpretation of bibliometric social
science indicators based on such databases. The paper reviews what we know about social science publishing and database coverage
of it. It examines the main reasons why social science bibliometrics are problematic, namely: the centrality of books in social
science literature and their high citation rate; and the national orientation of social science literatures. The paper then
looks at reasons why social science bibliometrics holds increasing promise, namely: increasing internationalization; and good
coverage of scholarly journals. |
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