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Producing data on Social Sciences and Humanities: Opportunities at Elsevier

Producing data on Social Sciences and Humanities: Opportunities at Elsevier. Henk F. Moed Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands ESF Workshop “Addressing the shortage of data on SSH”, Strasbourg, 13-14 September 2010. Dato on how SSH work (a “science”of SSH). Levels of Aggregation.

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Producing data on Social Sciences and Humanities: Opportunities at Elsevier

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  1. Producing data on Social Sciences and Humanities: Opportunities at Elsevier Henk F. Moed Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands ESF Workshop “Addressing the shortage of data on SSH”, Strasbourg, 13-14 September 2010

  2. Dato on how SSH work (a “science”of SSH)

  3. Levels of Aggregation

  4. Research Field Delimitation

  5. EC projects • EUMIDA Project (Pilot): Census of European Higher Education Institutions. • U-Rank (Pilot): classification and performance indicators for European HEI

  6. Input measures based on publication data • Number of ‘research active ’(=publishing) authors by field, country; institution

  7. (SSH) outputs and impacts

  8. More research needed on publication and citation practices in SSH Citation context and content Publication language Author nationality Paradigmatic background, school formation Type of source (journal vs. book) Scientific-scholarly collaboration Information circulation speed

  9. Elsevier? SCOPUS Elsevier involvement

  10. Social Sciences and Arts & Humanitiesin Scopus

  11. Expansion of A&H in Scopus - facts • In June 2009 Scopus doubled its Arts & Humanities (A&H) titles (incl. all ERIH-A) • More than 1,400 A&H titles were added to Scopus • Scopus users have access to nearly 3,500 A&H journals from around the world at no additional cost • Added titles include high-quality titles in core A&H subject areas

  12. Scopus coverage across subject areas:Over 6,200 titles in SSH Social Soc + Hum 6,250 Health Sciences 5,950 Physical Sciences 5,300 Life Sciences 3,700 More than 18,000 titles in Scopus, titles can be in more than one subject area

  13. Number of A&H titles per subject area:Ranges from 24 in musicology to 692 in education

  14. Social Science and A&H titles per region:Europe is well represented

  15. Top 10 A&H languages in Scopus:23 % is non-English Language Titles English 3,122 French 305 German 265 Italian 129 Spanish 119 Portuguese 34 Dutch 24 Czech 9 Croatian 5 Greek 4 Other 20

  16. Top 10 A&H publishers in Scopus account for 36 % of titles Publisher Titles Taylor & Francis* 284 SAGE 194 Wiley Blackwell 179 Springer 144 Elsevier** 144 Cambridge UP 77 Oxford UP 77 Brill 59 Johns Hopkins UP 40 De Gruyter 40 Other 2,219 *incl. Routledge, Haworth Press **incl. Pergamon, Academic Press, Masson

  17. Scopus: Future plans • Improve quality and completeness of Social Sciences and A&H collection • Add other content types such as conference proceedings and books • Improve coverage by adding more titles across region, language and subject area • Collaborate with other initiatives

  18. Combine existing SSH databases • Make inventory of databases • Define selection criteria (e.g., digital; user stats) • Specify database characteristics and structure • Load content into a standardised data format • Standardise content (e.g., cross-linking) What data fields? (Cited references? Affiliations?) Degree of standardisation/cross linking? Funding? Business model?

  19. Book Citation Index Project: Objectives(prof Stevan Harnad and collaborators) • Hone the tolls for harvesting and extracting metadata and references from books (and dissertations) • Create a prototype demo of a reference-linked book-citation index • Examine in 2-3 SSH sub-disciplines the correlation for book authors between journal and book citations.

  20. Thank You

  21. Elsevier Books in SCOPUS? SHOWCASE? SciVal involvement

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