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Libcitations: A Measure for Comparative Assessment of Book Publications in the Humanities and Social Sciences

dc.contributor.author White, Howard D en_US
dc.contributor.author Boell, Sebastian K en_US
dc.contributor.author Yu, Hairong en_US
dc.contributor.author Davis, Mari en_US
dc.contributor.author Wilson, Concepción S en_US
dc.contributor.author Cole, Fletcher TH en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T15:32:51Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T15:32:51Z
dc.date.issued 2009 en_US
dc.description.abstract Bibliometric measures for evaluating research units in the book-oriented humanities and social sciences are underdeveloped relative to those available for journal-oriented science and technology. We therefore present a new measure designed for book-oriented fields: the “libcitation count.” This is a count of the libraries holding a given book, as reported in a national or international union catalog. As librarians decide what to acquire for the audiences they serve, they jointly constitute an instrument for gauging the cultural impact of books. Their decisions are informed by knowledge not only of audiences but also of the book world, e.g., the reputations of authors and the prestige of publishers. From libcitation counts, measures can be derived for comparing research units. Here, we imagine a matchup between the departments of history, philosophy, and political science at the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney in Australia. We chose the 12 books from each department that had the highest libcitation counts in the Libraries Australia union catalog during 2000–2006. We present each book’s raw libcitation count, its rank within its LC class, and its LC-class normalized libcitation score. The latter is patterned on the item-oriented field normalized citation score used in evaluative bibliometrics. Summary statistics based on these measures allow the departments to be compared for cultural impact. Our work has implications for programs such as Excellence in Research for Australia and the Research Assessment Exercise in the United Kingdom. It also has implications for data mining in OCLC’s WorldCat. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0002-8231 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/44715
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.subject.other research evaluation en_US
dc.subject.other Bibliometrics en_US
dc.subject.other Scientometrics en_US
dc.subject.other humanities en_US
dc.subject.other books en_US
dc.subject.other libcitation en_US
dc.title Libcitations: A Measure for Comparative Assessment of Book Publications in the Humanities and Social Sciences en_US
dc.type Journal Article en
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unsw.description.notePublic The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.com en_US
unsw.description.publisherStatement This is a preprint of an article published as: Libcitations: A measure for comparative assessment of book publications in the humanities and social sciences. White et al. (2009). Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 60(6) : 1083-1096 Copyright © 2009, American Society for Information Science and Technology: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122211070/abstract en_US
unsw.identifier.doiPublisher http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.21045 en_US
unsw.relation.faculty Business
unsw.relation.ispartofissue 6 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofjournal Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofpagefrompageto 1083-1096 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofvolume 60 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation White, Howard D en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Boell, Sebastian K, Information Systems, Technology & Management, Australian School of Business, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Yu, Hairong, Information Systems, Technology & Management, Australian School of Business, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Davis, Mari, Information Systems, Technology & Management, Australian School of Business, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Wilson, Concepción S, Information Systems, Technology & Management, Australian School of Business, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Cole, Fletcher TH, Information Systems, Technology & Management, Australian School of Business, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school School of Information Systems & Technology Management *
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