Using the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) 2008, we apply mapping techniques previously developed for mapping journal structures in the Science and Social Science Citation Indices. Citation relations among the 110,718 records were aggregated at the level of 1,157 journals specific to the A&HCI, and the journal structures are questioned on whether a cognitive structure can be reconstructed and visualized. Both cosine-normalization (bottom up) and factor analysis (top down) suggest a division into approximately twelve subsets. The relations among these subsets are explored using various visualization techniques. However, we were not able to retrieve this structure using the ISI Subject Categories, including the 25 categories which are specific to the A&HCI. We discuss options for validation such as against the categories of the Humanities Indicators of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the panel structure of the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH), and compare our results with the curriculum organization of the Humanities Section of the College of Letters and Sciences of UCLA as an example of institutional organization.
This study compares publication pattern dynamics in the social sciences and humanities in five European countries. Three are Central and Eastern European countries that share a similar cultural and political heritage (the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland). The other two are Flanders (Belgium) and Norway, representing Western Europe and the Nordics, respectively. We analysed 449,409 publications from 2013-2016 and found that, despite persisting differences between the two groups of countries across all disciplines, publication patterns in the Central and Eastern European countries are becom…
Like the old saying, "a graph is worth a thousand words," the non-verbal language, encapsulated in the concept of inscription, is a fundamental rhetorical device in the construction of knowledge represented by research outputs. As many inscriptions are deeply situated in a scientific and data-driven research paradigm, they can be used to understand the relationships between research traditions involved in the field of digital humanities (DH), a highly cross-disciplinary field that is frequently regarded as a battleground between these distinct research traditions, especially the humanities and…
Scholarly communication has the scope to transcend the limitations of the physical world through social media extended coverage and shortened information paths. Accordingly, publishers have created profiles for their journals in Twitter to promote their publications and to initiate discussions with public. This paper investigates the Twitter presence of humanities and social sciences (HSS) journal titles obtained from mainstream citation indices, by analysing the interaction and communication patterns. This study utilizes webometric data collection, descriptive analysis, and social network ana…
Purpose: This article describes the interviews we conducted in late 2021 with 19 researchers at the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies at the University of Bologna. The main purpose was to shed light on the definition of the word "data" in the humanities domain, as far as FAIR data management practices are concerned, and on what researchers think of the term. Methodology: We invited one researcher for each of the official disciplinary areas represented within the department and all 19 accepted to participate in the study. Participants were then divided into 5 main research a…
The present study aims to establish a valid method by which to apply the theory of co-citations to Wikipedia article references and, subsequently, to map these relationships between scientific papers. This theory, originally applied to scientific literature, will be transferred to the digital environment of collective knowledge generation. To this end, a dataset containing Wikipedia references collected from Altmetric and Scopus' Journal Metrics journals has been used. The articles have been categorized according to the disciplines and specialties established in the All Science Journal Classif…
This paper examines the citation impact of papers published in scientific-scholarly journals upon patentable technology, as reflected in examiner- or inventor-given references in granted patents. It analyses data created by SCImago Research Group, linking PATSTAT's scientific non-patent references (SNPRs) to source documents indexed in Scopus. The frequency of patent citations to journal papers is calculated per discipline, year, institutional sector, journal subject category, and for "top" journals. PATSTAT/Scopus-based statistics are compared to those derived from Web of Science/USPTO linkag…
Book reviews play important roles in scholarly communication especially in arts and humanities disciplines. By using Web of Science's Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index, this study probed the patterns and dynamics of book reviews within these three indexes empirically during the past decade (2006-2015). We found that the absolute numbers of book reviews among all the three indexes were relatively stable but the relative shares were decreasing. Book reviews were very common in arts and humanities, common in social sciences, but …
H Index of History journals published in Spain according to Google Scholar Metrics (2007-2011)
Google Scholar（GSM）最近于2012年4月推出，具有新的文献计量系统，通过计算Google Scholar中获得的引用数量来衡量科学期刊。通过这种方式，它为衡量期刊在人文领域的影响开辟了新的可能性。本文旨在通过分析2012年12月5日至6日在西班牙出版的历史期刊的GSM搜索来评估该工具的范围。总之，确定了69种期刊，仅占西班牙出版的历史期刊的24%。这个领域的H指数值的范围是如此之小，排名不能再说是显示出一个歧视的潜力。有鉴于此，我们建议改变Google Scholar的设计方式，以便它也可以适应特定历史领域的生产和引用模式，并在更广泛的范围内，在人文领域也是如此。
Purpose. This study presents the results of an experiment we performed to measure the coverage of Digital Humanities (DH) publications in mainstream open and proprietary bibliographic data sources, by further highlighting the relations among DH and other disciplines. Methodology. We created a list of DH journals based on manual curation and bibliometric data. We used that list to identify DH publications in the bibliographic data sources under consideration. We used the ERIH-PLUS list of journals to identify Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) publications. We analysed the citation links they…
The publication activity and migration trends of Ukrainian scientists in the social sciences and humanities during the first two years of the Russo-Ukrainian war
In this article, we show and discuss the results of a quantitative and qualitative analysis of open citations to retracted publications in the humanities domain. Our study was conducted by selecting retracted papers in the humanities domain and marking their main characteristics (e.g., retraction reason). Then, we gathered the citing entities and annotated their basic metadata (e.g., title, venue, subject, etc.) and the characteristics of their in-text citations (e.g., intent, sentiment, etc.). Using these data, we performed a quantitative and qualitative study of retractions in the humanities…
Bibliometrics offers a particular representation of science. Through bibliometric methods a bibliometrician will always highlight particular elements of publications, and through these elements operationalize particular representations of science, while obscuring other possible representations from view. Understanding bibliometrics as representation implies that a bibliometric analysis is always performative: a bibliometric analysis brings a particular representation of science into being that potentially influences the science system itself. In this review we analyze the ways the humanities h…
The last decade has seen two significant phenomena emerge in research communication: the rise of open access (OA) publishing, and evidence of online sharing in the form of altmetrics. There has been limited examination of the effect of OA on online sharing for journal articles, and little for books. This paper examines the altmetrics of a set of 32,222 books (of which 5% are OA) and a set of 220,527 chapters (of which 7% are OA) indexed by the scholarly database Dimensions in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Both OA books and chapters have significantly higher use on social networks, higher…
This paper investigates the Twitter interaction patterns of journals from the Science Citation Index (SCI) of Master Journal List (MJL). A total of 953,253 tweets extracted from 857 journal accounts, were analyzed in this study. Findings indicate that SCI journals interacted more with each other but much less with journals from other citation indices. The network structure of the communication graph resembled a tight crowd network, with Nature journals playing a major part. Information sources such as news portals and scientific organizations were mentioned more in tweets, than academic journa…
The Journal Coverage of Web of Science and Scopus: a Comparative Analysis
文献计量学方法被用于多个领域，用于各种目的，即研究评估。大多数文献计量分析都有共同的数据来源：汤森路透的Web of Science（WoS）和爱思唯尔的Scopus。本研究比较了两个数据库的期刊覆盖领域，国家和语言，使用乌尔里希的广泛的期刊目录作为比较的基础。结果表明，使用WoS或Scopus进行研究评估可能会引入有利于自然科学和工程以及生物医学研究的偏见，从而损害社会科学，艺术和人文科学。同样，英语期刊的比例过高，损害了其他语言的利益。虽然这两个数据库都有这些偏见，但它们的覆盖范围有很大的不同。因此，文献计量分析的结果可能因所使用的数据库而异。
Empirical evidence shows that co-authored publications achieve higher visibility and impact. The aim of the current work is to test for the existence of a similar correlation for Italian publications. We also verify if such correlation differs: i) by subject category and macro-area; ii) by document type; iii) over the course of time. The results confirm world-level evidence, showing a consistent and significant linear growth in the citability of a publication with number of co-authors, in almost all subject categories. The effects are more remarkable in the fields of Social Sciences and Art & …
Researchers are more likely to read and cite papers to which they have access than those that they cannot obtain. Thus, the objective of this work is to analyze the contribution of the Open Access (OA) modality to the impact of hybrid journals. For this, the research articles in the year 2017 from 200 hybrid journals in four subject areas, and the citations received by such articles in the period 2017-2020 in the Scopus database, were analyzed. The journals were randomly selected from those with share of OA papers higher than some minimal value. More than 60 thousand research articles were ana…
Towards a Book Publishers Citation Reports. First approach using the Book Citation Index
Web of Science Citation Indexes（SCI、SSCI和A&HCI）中没有书籍和书籍章节一直被认为是一个重要的缺陷，但汤森路透的图书引文索引数据库最终在2010年10月索引了29，618本书和379，082本书章节。图书引文索引为从文献计量学的角度分析这些领域打开了一扇新的机会之窗。本文的主要目的是分析2006-2011年社会科学和人文科学领域图书引文索引中涉及科学出版商的不同影响力指标。这样，我们就可以构建我们所谓的“图书出版商引文报告”。为此，我们根据人文与艺术和社会科学与法律的不同学科，为科学出版商提供了6个指标，共19个排名
In this feasibility study, the impact of academic research from social sciences and humanities on technological innovation is explored through a study of citations patterns of journal articles in patents. Specifically we focus on citations of journals from the field of environmental economics in patents included in an American patent database (USPTO). Three decades of patents have led to a small set of journal articles (85) that are being cited from the field of environmental economics. While this route of measuring how academic research is validated through its role in stimulating technologic…
The decline in the concentration of citations, 1900-2007
本文对最近的研究（Evans，2008）提出了挑战，该研究报告称，随着文章和期刊的在线可用性，被引用的科学文献的集中度会增加。本文使用汤森路透的Web of Science，分析了1900年至2005年期间发表的论文的引用集中度（两年和五年的引用窗口）的变化。使用三种集中度指标：至少收到一次引用的论文百分比（引用论文）;需要占引用的20%，50%和80%的论文百分比;以及Herfindahl-Hirschman指数。这些措施用于四大学科：自然科学和工程，医学领域，社会科学和人文科学。所有这些措施收敛，并表明，与埃文斯的报告相反，引文的分散实际上是增加的。
An approach to the author citation potential: Measures of scientific performance which are invariant across scientific fields
引用潜力是被引用概率的度量。显然，科学、社会科学和人文科学领域之间的差异是不同的，因为跨学科的出版和引用行为存在系统性差异。过去，引用潜力是在期刊层面上研究的，考虑到已建立的期刊组的平均引用数量（例如，皇冠指标是基于Web of Science数据库中的期刊主题类别）。本文从三个不同的研究维度对作者的科学研究进行了描述：产出（期刊论文）、影响（期刊引用）和参考（文献来源）。然后，我们提出了不同的措施的基础上，这些方面的比例为作者的引用潜力。从CSIC研究中心（西班牙）随机挑选的四个学科领域的120名高产作者的实证应用表明，生产和影响维度之间的比率是对单个作者一级引用潜力的标准化衡量。此外，这一比率降低组间方差相对于组内方差的比例高于所分析的其他指标。此外，它与所使用的期刊影响力指标类型一致。这一结果的一个可能的应用是在跨学科机构的选拔和晋升过程中，因为它允许根据作者的具体科学研究进行比较。
In recent decades, the rapid growth of Internet adoption is offering opportunities for convenient and inexpensive access to scientific information. Wikipedia, one of the largest encyclopedias worldwide, has become a reference in this respect, and has attracted widespread attention from scholars. However, a clear understanding of the scientific sources underpinning Wikipedia's contents remains elusive. In this work, we rely on an open dataset of citations from Wikipedia to map the relationship between Wikipedia articles and scientific journal articles. We find that most journal articles cited f…
Regional and Global Science: Latin American and Caribbean publications in the SciELO Citation Index and the Web of Science
我们比较了拉丁美洲和加勒比地区（LAC）出版物在Web of Science（WoS）的核心馆藏索引中的可见性-科学引文索引扩展，社会科学引文索引和艺术与人文学科引文索引-以及SciELO引文索引（SciELO CI），该索引于2014年集成到更大的WoS平台中。这种比较的目的是帮助我们了解拉丁美洲和加勒比地区产生的科学知识的传播，并提供一些思考的潜在好处的衔接区域索引工作到WoS更好地了解地理和学科的贡献。SciELO CI的区域水平与WoS的全球范围有何关系？在WoS中，LAC作者在全球范围内被纳入国际网络，而SciELO为LAC研究人员提供了一个互动平台。SciELO与WoS的结合可能会提高区域期刊的国际知名度，但代价是独立的期刊纳入标准。
Edited Volumes, Monographs, and Book Chapters in the Book Citation Index (BKCI) and Science Citation Index (SCI, SoSCI, A&HCI)
2011年，路透社推出图书引文索引（BKCI）作为科学引文索引（SCI）的一部分。Web of Science第5版的界面使用户能够搜索“书籍”和“书籍章节”作为新类别。然而，书籍和书籍章节总是被引用的参考文献，自2005年以来，书籍章节已被列入数据库。我们探索这两个类别与BKCI和SCI，并在姐妹社会科学（SoSCI）和艺术与人文（A&HCI）数据库。编辑卷中的书籍章节可以被高度引用。书籍包含许多引用参考，但相对较少被引用。这可能是因为书籍的流通速度比期刊文章慢。在科学计量学上，可以区分“书籍”中的专著和编辑卷。专著在引用影响方面可能被低估，或者使用出版绩效指标被高估，因为单个章节在文章，评论和/或书籍章节方面分别被视为贡献。
On the causes of subject-specific citation rates in Web of Science
在文献计量学中众所周知，每篇论文的平均引用次数在不同学科之间存在很大差异。不同的引用文化（特别是每篇论文的平均引用次数不同，因此被引用的概率不同）被广泛认为是这种差异的原因。基于1990年，1995年，2000年，2005年和2010年发表的所有Web of Science（WoS）记录，我们证明了几乎所有学科在其论文的附录中显示出相似的参考文献数量。我们的研究结果表明，平均引用率的影响更大的程度上的论文（引用作为参考）被列入WoS作为链接的数据库记录。例如，人文学科相对较低的引用率根本不是每篇论文平均引用数量较低的结果，而是由引用WoS涵盖的核心期刊上发表的论文的链接引用比例较低造成的。
Using percentile shares, one can visualize and analyze the skewness in bibliometric data across disciplines and over time. The resulting figures can be intuitively interpreted and are more suitable for detailed analysis of the effects of independent and control variables on distributions than regression analysis. We show this by using percentile shares to analyze so-called "factors influencing citation impact" (FICs; e.g., the impact factor of the publishing journal) across year and disciplines. All articles (n= 2,961,789) covered by WoS in 1990 (n= 637,301), 2000 (n= 919,485), and 2010 (n= 1,…
Analyzing data citation practices using the Data Citation Index
我们提出了一个分析的数据引用实践的基础上，数据引用索引从汤森路透。该数据库于2012年启动，旨在将数据集和数据研究与从其他引文索引收到的引文联系起来。DCI从Web of Science索引的论文中收集研究数据的引用。它依赖于数据储存库提供的信息，因为在许多情况下，数据引用做法不一致或不存在。这项研究的结果表明，在大多数研究领域，数据引用的做法是远远不够的。研究人员引用数据的方式存在一些差异：在科学和工程以及技术领域，数据集被引用最多，而在社会科学和艺术以及人文科学领域，数据研究发挥了更大的作用。总共有88.1%的记录没有被引用，但一些存储库显示出非常低的未引用率。尽管数据引用在大多数领域都很少见，但它们在晶体学和基因组学等学科中得到了扩展。最后，我们强调DCI可以发挥的作用，鼓励一致的，标准化的研究数据的引用;一个角色，将提高其价值的一种手段，从数据汇集到出版的研究过程。
Despite citation counts from Google Scholar (GS), Web of Science (WoS), and Scopus being widely consulted by researchers and sometimes used in research evaluations, there is no recent or systematic evidence about the differences between them. In response, this paper investigates 2,448,055 citations to 2,299 English-language highly-cited documents from 252 GS subject categories published in 2006, comparing GS, the WoS Core Collection, and Scopus. GS consistently found the largest percentage of citations across all areas (93%-96%), far ahead of Scopus (35%-77%) and WoS (27%-73%). GS found nearly…
We report characteristics of in-text citations in over five million full text articles from two large databases - the PubMed Central Open Access subset and Elsevier journals - as functions of time, textual progression, and scientific field. The purpose of this study is to understand the characteristics of in-text citations in a detailed way prior to pursuing other studies focused on answering more substantive research questions. As such, we have analyzed in-text citations in several ways and report many findings here. Perhaps most significantly, we find that there are large field-level differe…
