1. www.nifustep.no 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. Publication types in five major fields Based on 33.000 (fractionalized) Norwegian publications from 2005-2008

5. Publication types in selected humanities

6. Publication types in selected social sciences

7. Scholarly book series – well established in many fields

8. Scholarly book series with electronic distribution

9. 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

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

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

12. Physics

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

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

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

16. 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

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

20. 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

21. 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

22. Coverage of all scientific publications in Norway’s HE sector Based on 33.000 (fractionalized) publications from 2005-2008

23. Web of Science coverage in selected social sciences Based on 33.000 (fractionalized) publications from 2005-2008

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

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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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.

30. 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

31. Dynamic records of scientific and scholarly ISSN-titles og ISBN- publishers 0001-9887Africa Today 0001-9909African Affairs 1062-4783African American Review 0263-0338African Archaeological Review 0001-9933African Arts 1017-6772African Development Review 0145-2258African Economic History 1021-3589African Entomology 1472-5843African Identities 1684-5315African Journal of Biotechnology 1021-9730African Journal of Crop Science 0141-6707African Journal of Ecology 1438-7890 African Journal of Environmental Assessment and Management 1684-5378 African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition 1015-8618African Journal of Neurological Sciences 0065-4000African 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

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

33. Coverage of Norwegian journal articles in WoS or Scopus Based on scholarly ISSN publications from Norway’s HE sector 2005-2008

34. Publications in Media and Communication 2005-2008 from the Norwegian Higher Education Sector

35. 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

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

37. Indexing all scientific and scholarly journals in Croatia

38. Indexing all scholarly journals in Norwegian

39. All types of publications are searchable – in economics

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

41. 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

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

43. 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

44. VABB-SHW

45. Institutional research profiles in three different universities (based on publication points 2005-2008)

46. 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

47. 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

48. The ERIH lists

50. 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

51. 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