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Treffer: Which role do non-source items play in the social sciences? A case study in political science in Germany

Title:
Which role do non-source items play in the social sciences? A case study in political science in Germany
Authors:
CHI, Pei-Shan
Source:
Selected Papers of the 14th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI), July 15-19, 2013, Vienna, AustriaScientometrics (Print). 101(2):1195-1213
Publisher Information:
Dordrecht: Springer, 2014.
Publication Year:
2014
Physical Description:
print, 1 p.3/4
Original Material:
INIST-CNRS
Subject Terms:
Information and communication sciences, Sciences de l'information communication, Documentation, Sciences exactes et technologie, Exact sciences and technology, Sciences et techniques communes, Sciences and techniques of general use, Sciences de l'information. Documentation, Information science. Documentation, Sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques. Etude d'ensemble, Library and information science. General aspects, Bibliométrie. Scientométrie. Evaluation, Bibliometrics. Scientometrics. Evaluation, Sciences de l'information et de la communication, Information and communication sciences, Bibliométrie. Scientométrie, Bibliometrics. Scientometrics, Analyse bibliométrique, Bibliometric analysis, Análisis bibliométrico, Base de données, Database, Base dato, Bibliométrie, Bibliometrics, Bibliometría, Citation, Citación, Index citation, Citation index, Índice cita, Recherche scientifique, Scientific research, Investigación científica, SSCI (Social Sciences Citation Index), A14, Non-source items, Political science, Publication patterns, Research evaluation, Social sciences
Document Type:
Konferenz Conference Paper
File Description:
text
Language:
English
Author Affiliations:
Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance, Schützenstrasse 6a, 10117 Berlin, Germany
ISSN:
0138-9130
Access URL:
http://pascal-francis.inist.fr/vibad/index.php?action=search&terms=28892100
Rights:
Copyright 2015 INIST-CNRS
CC BY 4.0
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Notes:
Sciences of information and communication. Documentation

FRANCIS
Accession Number:
edscal.28892100
Database:
PASCAL Archive

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Publications that are not indexed by citation indices such as Web of Science (WoS) or Scopus are called non-source items. These have so far been neglected by most bibliometric analyses. The central issue of this study is to investigate the characteristics of non-source items and the effect of their inclusion in bibliometric evaluations in the social sciences, specifically German political science publications. The results of this study show that non-source items significantly increase the number of publications (+1,350 %) and to a lesser extent the number of citations from SCIE, SSCI, and A&HCI (+150 %) for evaluated political scientists. 42 % of non-source items are published as book chapters. Edited books and books are cited the most among non-source items. About 40 % of non-source items are in English, while 80 % of source items are in English. The citation rates of researchers taking non-source items into account are lower than those from source items, partially as a result of the limited coverage of WoS. In contrast, the H-indices of researchers taking only non-source items into account are higher than those from source items. In short, the results of this study show that non-source items should be included in bibliometric evaluations, regardless of their impact or the citations from them. The demand for a more comprehensive coverage of bibliometric database in the social sciences for a higher quality of evaluations is shown.