What to include in a social sciences and humanities citation index: an empirical analysis

Gunnar Sivertsen; Birger Larsen

What to include in a social sciences and humanities citation index: an empirical analysis

Gunnar Sivertsen, Birger Larsen

Department of Communication

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A well-designed and comprehensive citation index for the social sciences and humanities has many potential uses, but has yet to be realised. Significant parts of the scholarly production in these areas are not published in international journals, but in national scholarly journals, in book chapters or in monographs. In this paper we investigate the potential for covering these literatures empirically by using a complete publication output data set from the higher education sector of an entire country (Norway). We find that the so far uncovered literatures are concentrated in relatively few publication channels, which should be promising for a more comprehensive coverage of the social sciences and humanities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the ISSI 2011 conference, 13th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics & Informetrics, Durban, South Africa, 04-07 July 2011
Editors	Ed Noyons, Patrick Ngulube, Jacqueline Leta
Number of pages	7
Place of Publication	Leiden
Publisher	Leiden University, CWTS
Publication date	2011
Pages	775-782
Publication status	Published - 2011

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Sivertsen, G., & Larsen, B. (2011). What to include in a social sciences and humanities citation index: an empirical analysis. In E. Noyons, P. Ngulube, & J. Leta (Eds.), Proceedings of the ISSI 2011 conference, 13th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics & Informetrics, Durban, South Africa, 04-07 July 2011 (pp. 775-782). Leiden University, CWTS. http://www.issi2011.uzulu.ac.za/docs/ISSI%202011_final%20program%20june%2029.pdf

What to include in a social sciences and humanities citation index : an empirical analysis. / Sivertsen, Gunnar; Larsen, Birger.

Proceedings of the ISSI 2011 conference, 13th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics & Informetrics, Durban, South Africa, 04-07 July 2011. ed. / Ed Noyons; Patrick Ngulube; Jacqueline Leta. Leiden : Leiden University, CWTS, 2011. p. 775-782.

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Sivertsen, G & Larsen, B 2011, What to include in a social sciences and humanities citation index: an empirical analysis. in E Noyons, P Ngulube & J Leta (eds), Proceedings of the ISSI 2011 conference, 13th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics & Informetrics, Durban, South Africa, 04-07 July 2011. Leiden University, CWTS, Leiden, pp. 775-782. <http://www.issi2011.uzulu.ac.za/docs/ISSI%202011_final%20program%20june%2029.pdf>

Sivertsen G, Larsen B. What to include in a social sciences and humanities citation index: an empirical analysis. In Noyons E, Ngulube P, Leta J, editors, Proceedings of the ISSI 2011 conference, 13th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics & Informetrics, Durban, South Africa, 04-07 July 2011. Leiden: Leiden University, CWTS. 2011. p. 775-782

Sivertsen, Gunnar ; Larsen, Birger. / What to include in a social sciences and humanities citation index : an empirical analysis. Proceedings of the ISSI 2011 conference, 13th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics & Informetrics, Durban, South Africa, 04-07 July 2011. editor / Ed Noyons ; Patrick Ngulube ; Jacqueline Leta. Leiden : Leiden University, CWTS, 2011. pp. 775-782

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