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International comparison of departments' research performance in the humanities

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  • A. J. Nederhof
  • E. C. M. Noyons

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Methods are developed to compare the research performance of departments in two humanities disciplines, general linguistics and general literature. Departments from an Anglo‐Saxon country were compared with several departments from European, non‐Anglo‐Saxon countries. A method was developed to reconstruct publication lists of departments, based on searches in various databases. We were able to retrieve 98% of the citations given to the work of one particular department. In both disciplines, it was found that the impact of some departments was largely dependent on their books and chapters, while other departments received most citations from their journal articles. The origins of citations were traced. Some departments had a largely local impact, whereas others showed a more cosmopolitan impact. Although there was some evidence of continental “self‐citations,” citations were also given across continents. The results indicate that bibliometric assessment of research performance is potentially useful in these humanities disciplines. © 1992 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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  • A. J. Nederhof & E. C. M. Noyons, 1992. "International comparison of departments' research performance in the humanities," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 43(3), pages 249-256, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:43:y:1992:i:3:p:249-256
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199204)43:33.0.CO;2-I
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    1. Anthony J. Nederhof & Marc Luwel & Henk F. Moed, 2001. "Assessing the quality of scholarly journals in Linguistics:An alternative to citation-based journal impact factors," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 51(1), pages 241-265, April.
    2. Beril T. Arik & Engin Arik, 2017. "“Second Language Writing” Publications in Web of Science: A Bibliometric Analysis," Publications, MDPI, vol. 5(1), pages 1-12, March.
    3. Mu-Hsuan Huang & Han-Wen Chang & Dar-Zen Chen, 2006. "Research evaluation of research-oriented universities in Taiwan from 1993 to 2003," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 67(3), pages 419-435, June.
    4. Daniela Filippo & Rafael Aleixandre-Benavent & Elías Sanz-Casado, 2020. "Toward a classification of Spanish scholarly journals in social sciences and humanities considering their impact and visibility," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 125(2), pages 1709-1732, November.

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