Fernandez-Izquierdo, F et al, Bibliometric study of early modern history in Spain based on bibliographic references ... PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTL CONF OF THE ISSI VOLS I AND II 266-271, 2007

[Eugene Garfield]

Email Address: fizquierdo at ih.csic.es

Author(s): Fernandez-Izquierdo, F (Fernandez-Izquierdo, Francisco); Roman-
Roman, A (Roman-Roman, Adelaida); Rubio-Liniers, C (Rubio-Liniers, Cruz); 
Moreno-Diaz-Del-Campo, FJ (Moreno-Diaz-Del-Campo, Francisco-Javier); 
Martin-Moreno, C (Martin-Moreno, Carmen); Garcia-Zorita, C (Garcia-Zorita, 
Carlos); Lascurain-Sanchez, ML (Lascurain-Sanchez, Maria Luisa); Garcia, 
PE (Garcia, Preiddy-Efrain); Povedano, E (Povedano, Elisa); Sanz-Casado, E 
(Sanz-Casado, Elias) 

Title: Bibliometric study of early modern history in Spain based on 
bibliographic references in national scientific journals and conference 
proceedings
 
Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF 

Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE 
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 
266-271, 2007 

Language: English 

Document Type: Article 

Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International-
Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics 

Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 

Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN 

Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & 
Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, 
Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ 
Carlos III Madrid 

Author Keywords: citation analysis in the humanities; early modern 
history; citation analysis in aonference proceedings; Spain 

KeyWords Plus: HUMANITIES SCHOLARS; INFORMATION NEEDS 

Abstract: This study evaluates the historians' work, with a selection of 
1,282 source papers published on early Modern History in Spain during 2000 
and 2001 (417 articles published in 15 journals, and 865 conference papers 
included in 14 different proceedings, see references). They contained 
44,471 bibliographic references citations (with a repetition factor of 
1.59) plus 19,269 references to archive documents or manuscripts. Some 
conclusions are obtained in a first approach: Although conference 
proceedings accounted for a larger number of papers ( 2/3 of total) than 
journals (1/3), coming from a similar number of chosen proceedings and 
journals(14-15), the proceedings were not cited more frequently (5.54%) 
than journal articles (18.53%). Historians work usually alone, their cites 
are 61.5% monographs, and historical materials reached 15.59% of all 
citations. The vernacular languages, Spanish and Catalonian, together 
represented 72.50% of the citations, followed by French; other languages 
were more indicative of the subjects studied. The average age of the 
citations was fairly high, with the 50th percentile being around 16-17 
years. Although a core of 11 I journals was identified, dispersal was very 
wide. for the 7,805 articles cited appeared in 2,132 periodicals, 1,301 of 
which published only one of the cited articles. 
Addresses: CSIC Spanish Natl Res Council, Hist Inst, Dept Early Modern 
Hist, Madrid, 28014 Spain. 

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