Benchmarking scientific output in the social sciences and humanities: The limits of existing databases

By Éric Archambault, Étienne Vignola-Gagné, Grégoire Côté, Vincent Larivière, Yves Gingras. Scientometrics, 2006

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Subfields: Information Systems, Statistics and Probability

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The journal coverage of Web of Science and Scopus: a comparative analysis (2015, methodology): “The results of this study show that, as Archambault et al. (2006) had found, there is still an overrepresentation of certain countries and languages to the detriment of others in the WoS journal coverage.”
Web of Science and Scopus: a journal title overlap study (2008, background): “Various authors have pointed out limitations in the coverage of the ISI citation indexes (Reed, 1995; Tijssen and Van Leeuwen, 1995; Korevaar and Moed, 1996; Seglen, 1997a; Seglen, 1997b; Bloch and Walter, 2001; Rey-Rocha et al., 2001; Stegmann and Grohmann, 2001; Archambault et al., 2006).”
The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era (2015, background): “Moreover, these disciplines make a much more important use of books [9] and generally rely on local journals [29], all of which are factors that make it much less interesting for big publishers to buy journals or found new ones in the arts and humanities.”
A review of the literature on citation impact indicators (2015, background): “The difficulties caused by the national and regional orientation of SSH research are emphasized by Archambault et al. (2006).”
A review of theory and practice in scientometrics (2015, methodology): “CWTS (Moed et al., 2008) was commissioned to analyse the 2001 RAE and found that the proportions of outputs contained in WoS and Scopus respectively were: Economics (66%, 72%), Business and Management (38%, 46%), Library and Information Science (32%, 34”
The globalization of social sciences? Evidence from a quantitative analysis of 30 years of production, collaboration and citations in the social sciences (1980–2009) (2014, background): “The major one is its focus on English-language journals and its underestimation of non-English-language scientific production:4 Asian languages and Spanish, for example, are strongly underestimated when compared to their expected proportion from other larger databases of journals such as Ulrich (Arc”
Comparing Research Productivity Across Disciplines and Career Stages (2013, background): “Many social scientists publish books and monographs which are often left out in bibliometric studies that consider journal publications as a singular measurement of faculty performance (Bott and Hargens 1991; Archambault et al. 2006; Nederhof 2006).”