Summary A comprehensive resource that allows users to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from scholarly and technical journals from publishers in over 80 countries. It is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences. Bibliographical citations. Social sciences. Social Sciences. Electronic reference sources. Bibliographic information. Note Inclusive coverage: Access Access restricted to subscribing institutions.
Note Online access available to Stanford-affiliated users only. Related Work Journal citation reports. Science edition. In summary, respiratory-related articles published in general medical or science journals attracted more citations than those published in the specific respiratory journals. Abstract Identifying citation classics in the field is one of the key methodologies used to conduct a systematic evaluation of research performance.
Publication types Review. In the humanities, a fairly common bar for getting tenure was having published a scholarly book; for full professor, a second one. But academic book publication is in transition and no longer as simple as it used to be. The arts and humanities have been slow to catch up to these expectations, for a variety of reasons. Scopus is better; Web of Knowledge is noticeably worse. The depth of coverage in the ISI Web of Knowledge, which is among the most comprehensive online bibliography databases, is deepest in the sciences, shallower in the social sciences, and most shallow in the humanities.
Part of the problem is that the humanities are not as hellbent on newness as are the sciences. For one thing, much new research in the humanities still comes out in book form. Books take long to produce, and longer to reverberate through the cognitive alleyways in which book-focused academic thinking takes place.
But journals play an essential role in most, if not all, disciplines. Billions of dollars are spent on scientific research every year; only a fraction of that on humanities-based scholarship. So the citation engines have been slow to catch on. Scopus , with its SCImago Lab Journal Ranking system, includes some arts and humanities journals, and its total of some 18, journals exceeds that of ISI, though much of this is in international journals.
A limitation of both Web of Knowledge and Scopus is that they only count citations in articles found in journals that they index — not in books, conference proceedings, or journals not indexed by them. The omission of book citations is particularly significant in the humanities. Another limitation is that they are primarily geared toward producing lists of the most high-impact journals.
The best way, at present, to make up for these two limitations is by using Google Scholar. You might think, why bother? Using Google Scholar is easy. If the name is unusual, so much the better. Like other citation indexes, Google Scholar does not index all scholarly publications; it only includes those that are available in some form through the internet, and not all of them at that.
In the humanities, where book citations are more normative and more valued than they are in the hard sciences, this is a significant gain.
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