Comprehensiveness of national bibliographic databases for social sciences and humanities: Findings from a European survey

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvy016" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvy016</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvy016" target="_blank" >10.1093/reseval/rvy016</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Comprehensiveness of national bibliographic databases for social sciences and humanities: Findings from a European survey

Original language description

This article provides an overview of national bibliographic databases that include data on research output within social sciences and humanities (SSH) in Europe. We focus on the comprehensiveness of the database content. Compared to the data from commercial databases such as Web of Science and Scopus, data from national bibliographic databases (e.g. Flemish Academic Bibliographic Database for the SSH (VABB-SHW) in Belgium, Current Research Information System in Norway (CRISTIN)) are more comprehensive and may, therefore, be better fit for bibliometric analyses. Acknowledging this, several countries within Europe maintain national bibliographic databases; detailed and comparative information about their content, however, has been limited. In autumn 2016, we launched a survey to acquire an overview of national bibliographic databases for SSH in Europe and Israel. Surveying 41 countries (responses received from 39 countries), we identified 21 national bibliographic databases for SSH. Further, we acquired a more detailed description of 13 databases, with a focus on their comprehensiveness. Findings indicate that even though the content of national bibliographic databases is diverse, it is possible to delineate a subset that is similar across databases. At the same time, it is apparent that differences in national bibliographic databases are often bound to differences in country-specific arrangements. Considering this, we highlight implications to bibliometric analyses based on data from national bibliographic databases and outline several aspects that may be taken into account in the development of existing national bibliographic databases for SSH or the design of new ones.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50803 - Information science (social aspects)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Research Evaluation

ISSN

0958-2029

e-ISSN

1471-5449

Volume of the periodical

27

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

310-322

UT code for WoS article

000456558800004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85058699502