Publication: Creación de un índice de citas de revistas españolas de Humanidades para el estudio de la actividad investigadora de los científicos de estas disciplinas
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2002
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Centro de Información y Documentación Científica (CINDOC)
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Los estudios bibliométricos basados en el análisis de citaciones han demostrado tener un gran interés, puesto que permiten evaluar la actividadcientífica desde distintas perspectivas. Sin embargo, su utilización entraña el problema del acceso a fuentes que proporcionen los datos necesarios sobre la bibliografía referenciada por los autores en sus trabajos, pues rara vezlos incluyen las bases de datos. El Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) es la única institución que produce bases de datos con las referencias bibliográficas de los documentos que indizan (Science Citation Index, SocialSciences Citation Index y Arts & Humanities Citation Index). Sin embargo,estas bases de datos tienen una escasa cobertura de las publicaciones editadas por países no anglosajones, especialmente en las áreas de humanidades.Por ello, un equipo multidisciplinar de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid emprendió un proyecto piloto dirigido a crear un índice de citas de revistas españolas de humanidades, concretamente en el área de Historia, con el fin de analizar distintos aspectos vinculados con la actividad científica en esta disciplina, como autores y fuentes más citadas, la tipología documental utilizada por este colectivo, la obsolescencia de la información, o su capacidad idiomática. Estos aspectos se analizaron a partir de la información obtenida de las casi 25.000 referencias bibliográficas de revistas de españolas de Historia seleccionadas, durante los años 1997 y 1998.
Bibliometric studies based on the analysis of citations have proved interesting in the evaluation of scientific activity from different perspectives. Their use, however, depends on access to data on the bibliography referenced by authors in their papers, information that is rarely included in databases. In fact, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) is the only institution whose databases contain the bibliographic references cited in the papers indexed (Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index) and their coverage of scientific literature published outside Anglo-Saxon countries is limited, particularly in the area of humanities. For this reason, a multidisciplinary group at Madrid’s Carlos III University undertook a pilot project designed to create a citation index of Spanish humanities journals, specifically in the area of History, to analyse a number of aspects relating to scientific activity in this discipline, such as the authors and sources most often cited, typology of the documentation used, obsolescence of the information or their knowledge of languages. These issues were analysed based on nearly 25.000 bibliographic references cited in papers published by selected Spanish history journals in 1997 and 1998.
Bibliometric studies based on the analysis of citations have proved interesting in the evaluation of scientific activity from different perspectives. Their use, however, depends on access to data on the bibliography referenced by authors in their papers, information that is rarely included in databases. In fact, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) is the only institution whose databases contain the bibliographic references cited in the papers indexed (Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index) and their coverage of scientific literature published outside Anglo-Saxon countries is limited, particularly in the area of humanities. For this reason, a multidisciplinary group at Madrid’s Carlos III University undertook a pilot project designed to create a citation index of Spanish humanities journals, specifically in the area of History, to analyse a number of aspects relating to scientific activity in this discipline, such as the authors and sources most often cited, typology of the documentation used, obsolescence of the information or their knowledge of languages. These issues were analysed based on nearly 25.000 bibliographic references cited in papers published by selected Spanish history journals in 1997 and 1998.
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Índice de citas, Humanidades, Historia, Indicadores bibliométricos, España, Español, Citation index, Humanities, History, Bibliometric indicators, Spain, Spanish
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Revista Española de Documentación Científica, V.25, N.4 (2002), pp. 421-432