ABS:Hicks, Full coverage of SS literature

[Gretchen Whitney]

PT J
AU Hicks, D
TI The difficulty of achieving full coverage of international
   social science literature and the bibliometric consequences
SO SCIENTOMETRICS
LA English
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ID BEHAVIORAL-SCIENCES; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; CITATION; SOCIOLOGY;
   INDICATORS; UNIVERSITIES; PHILOSOPHY; HUMANITIES; KNOWLEDGE;
   ECONOMICS
AB This review of social science bibliometric literature seeks to
   establish characteristics of the social science literature and
   to understand their consequences for the coverage of literature
   databases and for interpretation of bibliometric social science
   indicators based on such databases. The paper reviews what we
   know about social science publishing and database coverage of
   it. It examines the main reasons why social science
   bibliometrics are problematic, namely: the centrality of books
   in social science literature and their high citation rate; and
   the national orientation of social science literatures. The
   paper then looks at reasons why social science bibliometrics
   holds increasing promise, namely: increasing
   internationalization; and good coverage of scholarly journals.
BP 193
EP 215
PG 23
JI Scientometrics
PY 1999
PD FEB
VL 44
IS 2
GA 171UM
RP Hicks D
J9 SCIENTOMETRICS
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Gretchen Whitney, PhD                                     tel 423.974.7919
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