The place of serials in referencing practices:: Comparing natural sciences and engineering with social sciences and humanities
The place of serials in referencing practices:: Comparing natural sciences and engineering with social sciences and humanities
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10.1002/asi.20349
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发表时间：
2006-06-01
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Vignola-Gagne, Etienne
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作者：
Lariviere, Vincent;Archambault, Eric;Vignola-Gagne, Etienne
期刊文章构成了自然科学知识传播的核心文件。有人认为，社会科学和人文科学的情况并非如此，在这些学科中，知识更多地是通过专著传播的，而不是在用于文献计量分析的基于期刊的数据库中编入索引。以前的研究只对连载和其他类型的文献所起的作用进行了部分评估。因此，期刊文献在各个科学领域的重要性尚未得到系统的描述。作者通过对期刊文献在自然科学和工程学以及社会科学和人文科学知识建设中所发挥的作用进行系统测量来解决这个问题。利用1981年至2000年科学引文索引（SCI）、社会科学引文索引（SSCI）和艺术与人文科学引文索引（AHCI）数据库（Thomson ISI，Philadelphia，PA）光盘版本的引文数据，作者量化了期刊和其他类型文献的引文份额。还分析了时间和字段之间的变化。结果表明，期刊文献在自然科学和社会科学中的重要性日益增加，但其在人文科学中的作用停滞不前，甚至在20世纪90年代略有下降。在社会科学和人文科学的几个学科中，期刊文献占引用的比例不到50%;因此，在使用仅依赖于期刊文献的文献计量指标时应特别注意。
Journal articles constitute the core documents for the diffusion of knowledge in the natural sciences. It has been argued that the same is not true for the social sciences and humanities where knowledge is more often disseminated in monographs that are not indexed in the journal-based databases used for bibliometric analysis. Previous studies have made only partial assessments of the role played by both serials and other types of literature. The importance of journal literature in the various scientific fields has therefore not been systematically characterized. The authors address this issue by providing a systematic measurement of the role played by journal literature in the building of knowledge in both the natural sciences and engineering and the social sciences and humanities. Using citation data from the CD-ROM versions of the Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) databases from 1981 to 2000 (Thomson ISI, Philadelphia, PA), the authors quantify the share of citations to both serials and other types of literature. Variations in time and between fields are also analyzed. The results show that journal literature is increasingly important in the natural and social sciences, but that its role in the humanities is stagnant and has even tended to diminish slightly in the 1990s. Journal literature accounts for less than 50% of the citations in several disciplines of the social sciences and humanities; hence, special care should be used when using bibliometric indicators that rely only on journal literature.