Complexity Digest 2008.02 - 01.01
10-Jan-2008
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The Web Impact Of Open Access Social Science Research, Lib. & Info. Sc. Res.
Excerpts: For a long time, Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) journal citations have been widely used for research performance monitoring of the sciences. For the social sciences, however, the Social Sciences Citation Index® (SSCI®) can sometimes be insufficient. Broader types of publications (e.g., books and non-ISI journals) and informal scholarly indicators may also be needed. This article investigates whether the Web can help to fill this gap. The authors analyzed 1530 citations (...). About 19% of the Web citations represented formal impact equivalent to journal citations, and 11% were more informal indicators of impact. (...)
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