Najman JM, Hewitt B "The validity of publication and citation counts for Sociology and other selected disciplines" JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY 39 (1): 62-80 MAR 2003

[Eugene Garfield]

Belinda Hewitt : b.hewitt at uq.edu.au

TITLE      The validity of publication and citation counts for Sociology
           and other selected disciplines
AUTHOR     Najman JM, Hewitt B
JOURNAL    JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY 39 (1): 62-80 MAR 2003

Document type: Article     Language: English     Cited References: 24
Times Cited: 0      Explanation

Abstract:
The use of bibliometric data is a means of comparing. research productivity
and scholarly. impact for individuals, work groups, institutions and
nations within and between disciplines. Central to this debate is the
notion that disciplines differ in the ways in which,they exchange ideas and
disseminate information and therefore have diverse publishing and citation
patterns. In this article we use two different approaches to compiling
bibliometric data to compare publishing patterns of five different
disciplines that encompass Molecular Biology; Administration/Political
Science, Psychology,. Philosophy and Sociology/Anthropology. We find that
the social sciences differ from each other as well as from the physical
sciences in their publication and citation patterns. Further, while the
different ways of organizing the data produce somewhat different results,
the substantive findings for the general patterning of publications and
citations of disciplines are consistent for both data sets.
Sociology/Anthropology, when compared with the other disciplines, shows
substantial differences across universities.

Author Keywords:
citation counts, performance indicators, Sociology

KeyWords Plus:
SCIENCE, DEPARTMENTS, KNOWLEDGE, FIELDS

Addresses:
Najman JM, Univ Queensland, Sch Social Sci, St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia
Univ Queensland, Sch Social Sci, St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia
Univ Queensland, Sch Populat Hlth, St Lucia, Qld, Australia

Publisher:
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 6 BONHILL STREET, LONDON EC2A 4PU, ENGLAND

IDS Number:
670ZK

ISSN:
0004-8690

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