NIFU 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

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

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

Publication types in five major fields Based on (fractionalized) Norwegian publications from

Publication types in selected humanities

Publication types in selected social sciences

Scholarly book series – well established in many fields

Scholarly book series with electronic distribution

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

Percentage publications in non-Scandinavian languages Bibliographic database for Norwegian HE institutions

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

Physics

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

Use of foreign language (in per cent) across all fields English language and literature German language and literature

Use of foreign language (in per cent) across all fields English language and literature German language and literature Philosophy History Media and Communication

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

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

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

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

Coverage of all scientific publications in Norway’s HE sector Based on (fractionalized) publications from

Web of Science coverage in selected social sciences Based on (fractionalized) publications from

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

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

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

Is the world of scholarly literatures unlimited? The ”core journals” Other scolarly journals All the scholarly literatures Bradford’s law of scattering plus the limitations of the commercial market

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

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.

Three main publication types Channel Type E.g. scientific article in Nature or scholarly ISBN- title on Oxford University Press. 1) Article in ISSN-title 2) Article in ISBN-title 3) ISBN-title

Dynamic records of scientific and scholarly ISSN-titles og ISBN- publishers Africa Today African Affairs African American Review African Archaeological Review African Arts African Development Review African Economic History African Entomology African Identities African Journal of Biotechnology African Journal of Crop Science African Journal of Ecology African Journal of Environmental Assessment and Management African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition African Journal of Neurological Sciences 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

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

Coverage of Norwegian journal articles in WoS or Scopus Based on scholarly ISSN publications from Norway’s HE sector

Publications in Media and Communication from the Norwegian Higher Education Sector

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

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

Indexing all scientific and scholarly journals in Croatia

Indexing all scholarly journals in Norwegian

All types of publications are searchable – in economics

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

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

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

From ISI From 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

VABB-SHW

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

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

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

The ERIH lists

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

Integration of existing and developing data sources? Commercial citation databases International journals and book series National databases, library systems and indexing services National publications Attribution to persons and institutions Research councils in international collaboration Standards and thresholds