EC3 Research Group has released Publishers
Scholar Metrics, a
bibliometric index which aims to measure the impact of scientific books
publishers by analyzing citations to monographs published by professors and
researchers of Spanish public universities in the Humanities and the Social
Sciences and indexed on Google Scholar in 2012 (when the data was collected).
The two main objectives of this product are:
·
To determine the reliability and validity
of the information provided by Google Scholar in order to detect the core of
scientific publishers with a higher influence in the various disciplines that
conform the Humanities and the Social Sciences.
·
To verify the suitability of Google Scholar
as a tool for retrieving the scientific output of researchers in the Humanities
and the Social Sciences, since their work is seldom covered in traditional
databases because of their peculiar publication habits.
The experimental nature of this action is also aimed at
verifying the degree of acceptance of products of this kind in the Humanities
and Social Sciences communities, which are not as of yet familiar with this
sort of bibliometric practices. And the best way to do this is to display the
results obtained in each area of study in order to analyze and assess the
reactions.
These publisher rankings have been manufactured from a
sample containing the 7,203 most cited books of those published by 40,993 Spanish
researchers and indexed on Google Scholar. These books have received a total of
417,153 citations. The rankings are presented by scientific disciplines and
specializations to which Spanish university professors are ascribed to.
The product is accessible from:
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