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Charles Oppenheim - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • comparing alternatives to the web of science for coverage of the Social Sciences literature
    Journal of Informetrics, 2007
    Co-Authors: Michael Norris, Charles Oppenheim
    Abstract:

    The Web of Science is no longer the only database which offers citation indexing of the Social Sciences. Scopus, CSA Illumina and Google Scholar are new entrants in this market. The holdings and citation records of these four databases were assessed against two sets of data one drawn from the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise and the other from the International bibliography of the Social Sciences. Initially, CSA Illumina's coverage at journal title level appeared to be the most comprehensive. But when recall and average citation count was tested at article level and rankings extrapolated by submission frequency to individual journal titles, Scopus was ranked first. When issues of functionality, the quality of record processing and depth of coverage are taken into account, Scopus and Web of Science have a significant advantage over the other two databases. From this analysis, Scopus offers the best coverage from amongst these databases and could be used as an alternative to the Web of Science as a tool to evaluate the research impact in the Social Sciences.

  • Comparing alternatives to the Web of Science for coverage of the Social Sciences' literature
    Journal of Informetrics, 2007
    Co-Authors: Michael Norris, Charles Oppenheim
    Abstract:

    The Web of Science is no longer the only database which offers citation indexing of the Social Sciences. Scopus, CSA Illumina and Google Scholar are new entrants in this market. The holdings and citation records of these four databases were assessed against two sets of data one drawn from the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise and the other from the International bibliography of the Social Sciences. Initially, CSA Illumina's coverage at journal title level appeared to be the most comprehensive. But when recall and average citation count was tested at article level and rankings extrapolated by submission frequency to individual journal titles, Scopus was ranked first. When issues of functionality, the quality of record processing and depth of coverage are taken into account, Scopus and Web of Science have a significant advantage over the other two databases. From this analysis, Scopus offers the best coverage from amongst these databases and could be used as an alternative to the Web of Science as a tool to evaluate the research impact in the Social Sciences. ?? 2007 Charles Oppenheim.

Michael Norris - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • comparing alternatives to the web of science for coverage of the Social Sciences literature
    Journal of Informetrics, 2007
    Co-Authors: Michael Norris, Charles Oppenheim
    Abstract:

    The Web of Science is no longer the only database which offers citation indexing of the Social Sciences. Scopus, CSA Illumina and Google Scholar are new entrants in this market. The holdings and citation records of these four databases were assessed against two sets of data one drawn from the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise and the other from the International bibliography of the Social Sciences. Initially, CSA Illumina's coverage at journal title level appeared to be the most comprehensive. But when recall and average citation count was tested at article level and rankings extrapolated by submission frequency to individual journal titles, Scopus was ranked first. When issues of functionality, the quality of record processing and depth of coverage are taken into account, Scopus and Web of Science have a significant advantage over the other two databases. From this analysis, Scopus offers the best coverage from amongst these databases and could be used as an alternative to the Web of Science as a tool to evaluate the research impact in the Social Sciences.

  • Comparing alternatives to the Web of Science for coverage of the Social Sciences' literature
    Journal of Informetrics, 2007
    Co-Authors: Michael Norris, Charles Oppenheim
    Abstract:

    The Web of Science is no longer the only database which offers citation indexing of the Social Sciences. Scopus, CSA Illumina and Google Scholar are new entrants in this market. The holdings and citation records of these four databases were assessed against two sets of data one drawn from the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise and the other from the International bibliography of the Social Sciences. Initially, CSA Illumina's coverage at journal title level appeared to be the most comprehensive. But when recall and average citation count was tested at article level and rankings extrapolated by submission frequency to individual journal titles, Scopus was ranked first. When issues of functionality, the quality of record processing and depth of coverage are taken into account, Scopus and Web of Science have a significant advantage over the other two databases. From this analysis, Scopus offers the best coverage from amongst these databases and could be used as an alternative to the Web of Science as a tool to evaluate the research impact in the Social Sciences. ?? 2007 Charles Oppenheim.

Anne-wil Harzing - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Document categories in the ISI Web of Knowledge: Misunderstanding the Social Sciences?
    Scientometrics, 2013
    Co-Authors: Anne-wil Harzing
    Abstract:

    Thomson Reuter’s ISI Web of Knowledge (or ISI for short) is used in the majority of benchmarking analyses and bibliometric research projects. Therefore, it is important to be aware of the limitations of data provided by ISI. This article deals with a limitation that disproportionally affects the Social Sciences: ISI’s misclassification of journal articles containing original research into the “review” or “proceedings paper” category. I report on a comprehensive, 11 year analysis, of document categories for 27 journals in nine Social Science and Science disciplines. I show that although ISI’s “proceedings paper” and “review” classifications seem to work fairly well in the Sciences, they illustrate a profound misunderstanding of research and publication practices in the Social Sciences.

Petri Ylikoski - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • causal mechanisms in the Social Sciences
    Review of Sociology, 2010
    Co-Authors: Peter Hedstrom, Petri Ylikoski
    Abstract:

    During the past decade, Social mechanisms and mechanism-based explanations have received considerable attention in the Social Sciences as well as in the philosophy of science. This article critically reviews the most important philosophical and Social science contributions to the mechanism approach. The first part discusses the idea of mechanism-based explanation from the point of view of philosophy of science and relates it to causation and to the covering-law account of explanation. The second part focuses on how the idea of mechanisms has been used in the Social Sciences. The final part discusses recent developments in analytical sociology, covering the nature of sociological explananda, the role of theory of action in mechanism-based explanations, Merton's idea of middle-range theory, and the role of agent-based simulations in the development of mechanism-based explanations.

Brian Wynne - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • nanotechnology governance and public deliberation what role for the Social Sciences
    Science Communication, 2005
    Co-Authors: Phil Macnaghten, Matthew Kearnes, Brian Wynne
    Abstract:

    In this article we argue that nanotechnology represents an extraordinary opportunity to build in a robust role for the Social Sciences in a technology that remains at an early, and hence undetermined, stage of development. We examine policy dynamics in both the United States and United Kingdom aimed at both opening up, and closing down, the role of the Social Sciences in nanotechnologies. We then set out a prospective agenda for the Social Sciences and its potential in the future shaping of nanotechnology research and innovation processes. The emergent, undetermined nature of nanotechnologies calls for an open, experimental, and interdisciplinary model of Social science research.