Book reviews in academic journals: patterns and dynamics

被引：19

作者：

Liu, Weishu ^{[1
]}

Ding, Yishan ^{[2
]}

Gu, Mengdi ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Zhejiang Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Informat Management & Engn, Hangzhou 310018, Zhejiang, Peoples R China

[2] Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Antai Coll Econ & Management, Shanghai 200052, Peoples R China

来源：

SCIENTOMETRICS | 2017年 / 110卷 / 01期

关键词：

Book review; Academic journal; Web of Science; Sciences and social sciences; Arts and humanities; BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; CHINA; PUBLICATIONS; HUMANITIES; POWER;

D O I：

10.1007/s11192-016-2172-2

中图分类号：

TP39 [计算机的应用];

学科分类号：

081203 ; 0835 ;

摘要：

Book reviews play important roles in scholarly communication especially in arts and humanities disciplines. By using Web of Science's Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index, this study probed the patterns and dynamics of book reviews within these three indexes empirically during the past decade (2006-2015). We found that the absolute numbers of book reviews among all the three indexes were relatively stable but the relative shares were decreasing. Book reviews were very common in arts and humanities, common in social sciences, but rare in natural sciences. Book reviews are mainly contributed by authors from developed economies such as the USA and the UK. Oppositely, scholars from China and Japan are unlikely to contribute to book reviews.

引用

页码：355 / 364

页数：10

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