21,247 research outputs found
Edited Volumes, Monographs, and Book Chapters in the Book Citation Index (BKCI) and Science Citation Index (SCI, SoSCI, A&HCI)
In 2011, Thomson-Reuters introduced the Book Citation Index (BKCI) as part of
the Science Citation Index (SCI). The interface of the Web of Science version 5
enables users to search for both "Books" and "Book Chapters" as new categories.
Books and book chapters, however, were always among the cited references, and
book chapters have been included in the database since 2005. We explore the two
categories with both BKCI and SCI, and in the sister social sciences (SoSCI)
and the arts & humanities (A&HCI) databases. Book chapters in edited volumes
can be highly cited. Books contain many citing references but are relatively
less cited. This may find its origin in the slower circulation of books than of
journal articles. It is possible to distinguish between monographs and edited
volumes among the "Books" scientometrically. Monographs may be underrated in
terms of citation impact or overrated using publication performance indicators
because individual chapters are counted as contributions separately in terms of
articles, reviews, and/or book chapters.Comment: Journal of Scientometric Research, 2012, in pres
How scientific research changes the Vietnamese higher education landscape: Evidence from social sciences and humanities between 2008 and 2019
Background: In the context of globalization, Vietnamese universities, whose primary function is teaching, there is a need to improve research performance.
Methods: Based on SSHPA data, an exclusive database of Vietnamese social sciences and humanities researchers’ productivity, between 2008 and 2019 period, this study analyzes the research output of Vietnamese universities in the field of social sciences and humanities.
Results: Vietnamese universities have been steadily producing a high volume of publications in the 2008-2019 period, with a peak of 598 articles in 2019. Moreover, many private universities and institutions are also joining the publication race, pushing competitiveness in the country.
Conclusions: Solutions to improve both quantity and quality of Vietnamese universities’ research practice in the context of the industrial revolution 4.0 could be applying international criteria in Vietnamese higher education, developing scientific and critical thinking for general and STEM education, and promoting science communication
Trends in Russian research output indexed in Scopus and Web of Science
Trends are analysed in the annual number of documents published by Russian
institutions and indexed in Scopus and Web of Science, giving special attention
to the time period starting in the year 2013 in which the Project 5-100 was
launched by the Russian Government. Numbers are broken down by document type,
publication language, type of source, research discipline, country and source.
It is concluded that Russian publication counts strongly depend upon the
database used, and upon changes in database coverage, and that one should be
cautious when using indicators derived from WoS, and especially from Scopus, as
tools in the measurement of research performance and international orientation
of the Russian science system.Comment: Author copy of a manuscript accepted for publication in the journal
Scientometrics, May 201
Scopus's Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) versus a Journal Impact Factor based on Fractional Counting of Citations
Impact factors (and similar measures such as the Scimago Journal Rankings)
suffer from two problems: (i) citation behavior varies among fields of science
and therefore leads to systematic differences, and (ii) there are no statistics
to inform us whether differences are significant. The recently introduced SNIP
indicator of Scopus tries to remedy the first of these two problems, but a
number of normalization decisions are involved which makes it impossible to
test for significance. Using fractional counting of citations-based on the
assumption that impact is proportionate to the number of references in the
citing documents-citations can be contextualized at the paper level and
aggregated impacts of sets can be tested for their significance. It can be
shown that the weighted impact of Annals of Mathematics (0.247) is not so much
lower than that of Molecular Cell (0.386) despite a five-fold difference
between their impact factors (2.793 and 13.156, respectively)
Gender Representation on Journal Editorial Boards in the Mathematical Sciences
We study gender representation on the editorial boards of 435 journals in the
mathematical sciences. Women are known to comprise approximately 15% of
tenure-stream faculty positions in doctoral-granting mathematical sciences
departments in the United States. Compared to this pool, the likely source of
journal editorships, we find that 8.9% of the 13067 editorships in our study
are held by women. We describe group variations within the editorships by
identifying specific journals, subfields, publishers, and countries that
significantly exceed or fall short of this average. To enable our study, we
develop a semi-automated method for inferring gender that has an estimated
accuracy of 97.5%. Our findings provide the first measure of gender
distribution on editorial boards in the mathematical sciences, offer insights
that suggest future studies in the mathematical sciences, and introduce new
methods that enable large-scale studies of gender distribution in other fields.Comment: 21 pages, 10 figure
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