Globalization of the social sciences in Eastern Europe: genuine breakthrough or a slippery slope of the research evaluation practice?

Scientometrics

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2131-2150

  Pajić, Dejan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Bibliographic indicators; Eastern Europe; Journal Diversity Index; Science evaluation policy; Social sciences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925541803     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-014-1510-5     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Allik, J. (2013). Factors affecting bibliometric indicators of scientific quality. TRAMES,17(3), 199–214.
2. Almeida, J. A. S., Pais, A. A. C. C., & Formosinho, S. J. (2009). Science indicators and science patterns in Europe. Journal of Informetrics,3(2), 134–142. doi:10.1016/j.joi.2009.01.001.
3. Archambault, É., Vignola-Gagné, É., Côté, G., Larivière, V., & Gingras, Y. (2006). Benchmarking scientific output in the social sciences and humanities: The limits of existing databases. Scientometrics,68(3), 329–342. doi:10.1007/s11192-006-0115-z.
4. Boyack, K. W., Klavans, R., & Börner, K. (2005). Mapping the backbone of science. Scientometrics,64(3), 351–374.
5. Collazo-Reyes, F. (2013). Growth of the number of indexed journals of Latin America and the Caribbean: The effect on the impact of each country. Scientometrics. doi:10.1007/s11192-013-1036-2.
6. de Nooy, W., Mrvar, A., & Batagelj, V. (2011). Exploratory social network analysis with pajek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
7. Engels, T. C. E., Ossenblok, T. L. B., & Spruyt, E. H. J. (2012). Changing publication patterns in the social sciences and humanities, 2000–2009. Scientometrics,93(2), 373–390. doi:10.1007/s11192-012-0680-2.
8. Fenrich, W., Nowiński, A., Zamłyńska, K., & Sylwestrzak, W. (2013). POL-index—Polska Baza Cytowań. Presented at the Bibliograficzne bazy danych i ich rola w rozwoju nauki. II Konferencja naukowa Konsorcjum BazTech, Poznań, 17–19 kwietnia 2013.
9. Fiala, D. (2013). Science evaluation in the Czech Republic: The case of universities. Societies,3(3), 266–279.
10. Geuna, A., & Martin, B. R. (2003). University research evaluation and funding: An international comparison. Minerva,41(4), 277–304. doi:10.1023/B:MINE.0000005155.70870.bd.
11. Heilbron, J. (2013). The social sciences as an emerging global field. Current Sociology. doi:10.1177/0011392113499739.
12. Hicks, D. (2012a). One size doesn’t fit all: On the co-evolution of national evaluation systems and social science publishing. Confero,1(1), 67–99.
13. Hicks, D. (2012b). Performance-based university research funding systems. Research Policy,41(2), 251–261. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2011.09.007.
14. Himanen, L., Auranen, O., Puuska, H.-M., & Nieminen, M. (2009). Influence of research funding and science policy on university research performance: A comparison of five countries. Science and Public Policy,36(6), 419–430. doi:10.3152/030234209X461006.
15. Jokić, M., Zauder, K., & Letina, S. (2009). Croatian scholarly productivity 1991–2005 measured by journals indexed in Web of Science. Scientometrics,83(2), 375–395. doi:10.1007/s11192-009-0071-5.
16. Južnič, P., Pečlin, S., Žaucer, M., Mandelj, T., Pušnik, M., & Demšar, F. (2010). Scientometric indicators: Peer-review, bibliometric methods and conflict of interests. Scientometrics,85(2), 429–441. doi:10.1007/s11192-010-0230-8.
17. Kamada, T., & Kawai, S. (1989). An algorithm for drawing general undirected graphs. Information Processing Letters,31(1), 7–15.
18. Koczkodaj, W. W., Kulakowski, K., & Ligeza, A. (2014). On the quality evaluation of scientific entities in Poland supported by consistency-driven pairwise comparisons method. Scientometrics,99, 911–926. doi:10.1007/s11192-014-1258-y.
19. Kosanović, B., & Šipka, P. (2013). Output in WoS vs. representation in JCR of SEE Nations: does mother thomson cherish all her children equally (pp. 125–137). Presented at the Fifth Belgrade International Open Access Conference 2012, May 18–19, Belgrade: CEES. doi:10.5937/BIOAC-111.
20. Kozak, M., Bornmann, L., & Leydesdorff, L. (2013). How have the Eastern European countries of the former Warsaw Pact developed since 1990? A bibliometric study. arXiv:1312.3077 [cs, Stat]. Retrieved from http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.3077.
21. Larivière, V., Archambault, É., Gingras, Y., & Vignola-Gagné, É. (2006). The place of serials in referencing practices: Comparing natural sciences and engineering with social sciences and humanities. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology,57(8), 997–1004. doi:10.1002/asi.20349.
22. Leite, P., Mugnaini, R., & Leta, J. (2011). A new indicator for international visibility: Exploring Brazilian scientific community. Scientometrics,88(1), 311–319. doi:10.1007/s11192-011-0379-9.
23. Lõhkivi, E., Velbaum, K., & Eigi, J. (2012). Epistemic injustice in research evaluation: A cultural analysis of the humanities and physics in Estonia. Studia Philosophica Estonica,5(2), 108–132.
24. López-Illescas, C., de Anegón, F. M., & Moed, H. F. (2009). Comparing bibliometric country-by-country rankings derived from the Web of Science and Scopus: The effect of poorly cited journals in oncology. Journal of Information Science,35(2), 244–256. doi:10.1177/0165551508098603.
25. Macdonald, S., & Kam, J. (2007). Ring a Ring o’ Roses: Quality journals and gamesmanship in management studies. Journal of Management Studies,44(4), 640–655. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6486.2007.00704.x.
26. Mali, F. (2011). Policy issues of the international productivity and visibility of the social sciences in Central and Eastern European Countries. Sociologija I Prostor,48(3), 415–435.
27. Mañana-Rodríguez, J. (2014). A critical review of SCImago journal and country rank. Research Evaluation. doi:10.1093/reseval/rvu008.
28. Moed, H. F. (2009). New developments in the use of citation analysis in research evaluation. Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis,57(1), 13–18. doi:10.1007/s00005-009-0001-5.
29. Nederhof, A. J. (2006). Bibliometric monitoring of research performance in the social sciences and the humanities: A Review. Scientometrics,66(1), 81–100. doi:10.1007/s11192-006-0007-2.
30. Ossenblok, T. L. B., Engels, T. C. E., & Sivertsen, G. (2012). The representation of the social sciences and humanities in the Web of Science—A comparison of publication patterns and incentive structures in Flanders and Norway (2005–9). Research Evaluation,21(4), 280–290. doi:10.1093/reseval/rvs019.
31. Pajić, D. (2014). Browse to search, visualize to explore: Who needs an alternative information retrieving model? Computers in Human Behavior,39, 145–153. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2014.07.010.
32. Pajić, D., & Jevremov, T. (2014). Globally national—Locally international: Bibliometric analysis of a SEE psychology journal. Psihologija,47(2), 263–277. doi:10.2298/PSI1402263P.
33. Pálné Kovács, I., & Kutsar, D. (Eds.). (2012). Internationalisation of social sciences in Central and Eastern Europe: The “Catching Up”—A myth or a strategy?. Abingdon: Routledge.
34. Resnik, D. B., Patrone, D., & Peddada, S. (2010). Research misconduct policies of social science journals and impact factor. Accountability in Research,17(2), 79–84. doi:10.1080/08989621003641181.
35. Sambunjak, D., Ivaniš, A., Marušić, A., & Marušić, M. (2008). Representation of journals from five neighboring European countries in the journal citation reports. Scientometrics,76(2), 261–271. doi:10.1007/s11192-007-1915-5.
36. Schuermans, N., Meeus, B., & De Maesschalck, F. (2010). Is there a world beyond the Web of Science? Publication practices outside the heartland of academic geography. Area,42(4), 417–424. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4762.2010.00938.x.
37. Segalla, M. (2008). Publishing in the right place or publishing the right thing: Journal targeting and citations’ strategies for promotion and tenure committees. European Journal of International Management,2(2), 122–127. doi:10.1504/EJIM.2008.017765.
38. Seglen, P. O. (1992). The skewness of science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science,43(9), 628–638. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199210)43:9<628:AID-ASI5>3.0.CO;2-0.
39. Šipka, P. (2005). The Serbian citation index: Context and content. Proceedings of ISSI 2005–10th International Conference of the Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, Stockholm, Sweden, July 24–28, 2005 (pp. 710–711). Stockholm: ISSI and Karolinska University Press.
40. Šipka, P. (2012). Legitimacy of citations in predatory publishing: The case of proliferation of papers by Serbian authors in two Bosnian WoS-indexed journals (No. 2012-12-2.). Belgrade: CEES. Retrieved from http://www.ceon.rs/ops/12122.
41. Stirling, A. (2007). A general framework for analysing diversity in science, technology and society. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface,4(15), 707–719. doi:10.1098/rsif.2007.0213.
42. Teodorescu, D., & Andrei, T. (2014). An examination of “citation circles” for social sciences journals in Eastern European countries. Scientometrics,99(2), 209–231. doi:10.1007/s11192-013-1210-6.
43. Vanecek, J. (2014). The effect of performance-based research funding on output of R&D results in the Czech Republic. Scientometrics,98(1), 657–681. doi:10.1007/s11192-013-1061-1.
44. Varshavskii, A. E., Ivanov, V. V., & Markusova, V. A. (2011). Adequate assessment of scientific output. Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences,81(4), 358–363. doi:10.1134/S1019331611020195.
45. Vinkler, P. (2000). Evaluation of the publication activity of research teams by means of scientometric indicators. Current Science,79(5), 602–612.