"Books" and "book chapters" in the Book Citation Index (BCI) and Science Citation Index (SCI, SoSCI, A&HCI)

Authors
Publication date 2012
Host editors
  • A. Grove
Book title Information, interaction, innovation: celebrating the past, constructing the present and creating the future; 75th annual meeting ASIS&T 2012; October 26-30, Baltimore, Md. Proceedings
Event ASIS&T 75th Annual Meeting: Baltimore, Maryland: October 26-30, 2012: "Information, Interaction, Innovation: Celebrating the Past, Constructing the Present and Creating the Future"
Volume | Issue number 49
Publisher Silver Spring, Md.: ASIS&T
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)
Abstract
In 2011, Thomson-Reuters introduced the Book Citation Index (BKCI) as part of the Science Citation Index (SCI). The interface of the Web of Science version 5 enables users to search for both "Books" and "Book Chapters" as new categories. Books and book chapters, however, were always among the cited references, and book chapters have been included in the database since 2005. We explore the two categories with both BKCI and SCI, and in the sister databases for the social sciences (SoSCI) and the arts & humanities (A&HCI). Book chapters in edited volumes can be highly cited. Books contain many citing references, but are relatively less cited. We suggest that this may find its origin in the slower circulation of books then of journal articles. It is possible to distinguish bibliometrically between monographs and edited volumes among the "Books". Monographs may be underrated in terms of citation impact or overrated using publication performance indicators because individual chapters are counted separately as contributions in terms of articles, reviews, and/or book chapters.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at http://asis.org/asist2012/proceedings/Submissions/27.pdf
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