Towards a "Book Publishers Citation Reports". First approach using the "Book Citation Index"

The absence of books and book chapters in the Web of Science Citation Indexes (SCI, SSCI and A&HCI) has always been considered an important flaw but the Thomson Reuters ‘Book Citation Index’ database was finally available in October of 2010 indexing 29,618 books and 379,082 book chapters. The Bo...

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Autores: Torres-Salinas, D. (Daniel)|||/items/42031607-34ed-49ba-913c-e096d6cff6e6, Robinson-García, N. (Nicolás)|||/items/8256c602-06ac-4538-8657-390ad6836cad, Jiménez-Contreras, E. (Evaristo)|||/items/78c7dc58-6d84-4f70-8b80-1901589fe1c6, Delgado-López, E. (Emilio)|||/items/7c347b2e-cd8a-49b6-9407-4a3aa33aca42
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Navarra
Repositorio:Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarra
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/37685
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10171/37685
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Research evaluation
Análisis de citas
Book Citation Index
Evaluación de la investigación
Citation analysis
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Sumario:The absence of books and book chapters in the Web of Science Citation Indexes (SCI, SSCI and A&HCI) has always been considered an important flaw but the Thomson Reuters ‘Book Citation Index’ database was finally available in October of 2010 indexing 29,618 books and 379,082 book chapters. The Book Citation Index opens a new window of opportunities for analyzing Humanities and Social Sciences from a bibliometric point of view. The main objective of this article is to analyze different impact indicators referred to the scientific publishers included in the Book Citation Index for the Social Sciences and Humanities fields during 2006-2011. This way we construct what we have called the ‘Book Publishers Citation Reports’. For this, we present a total of 19 rankings according to the different disciplines in Humanities & Arts and Social Sciences & Law with six indicators for scientific publishers.