Book reviews in humanities research evaluations
@article{Zuccal2011BookRI,
title={Book reviews in humanities research evaluations},
author={A. Zuccal{\'a} and T. V. Leeuwen},
journal={J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.},
year={2011},
volume={62},
pages={1979-1991}
}Bibliometric evaluations of research outputs in the social sciences and humanities are challenging due to limitations associated with Web of Science data; however, background literature has shown that scholars are interested in stimulating improvements. We give special attention to book reviews processed by Web of Science history and literature journals, focusing on two types: Type I (i.e., reference to book only) and Type II (i.e., reference to book and other scholarly sources). Bibliometric… CONTINUE READING
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