Book reviews in academic journals: patterns and dynamics
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- 作者：Weishu Liu ; Yishan Ding ; Mengdi Gu
- 关键词：Book review ; Academic journal ; Web of Science ; Sciences and social sciences ; Arts and humanities
- 刊名：Scientometrics
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：January 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：110
- 期：1
- 页码：355-364
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- 刊物主题：Information Storage and Retrieval; Library Science;
- 出版者：Springer Netherlands
- ISSN：1588-2861
- 卷排序：110
文摘
Book reviews play important roles in scholarly communication especially in arts and humanities disciplines. By using Web of Science’s Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index, this study probed the patterns and dynamics of book reviews within these three indexes empirically during the past decade (2006–2015). We found that the absolute numbers of book reviews among all the three indexes were relatively stable but the relative shares were decreasing. Book reviews were very common in arts and humanities, common in social sciences, but rare in natural sciences. Book reviews are mainly contributed by authors from developed economies such as the USA and the UK. Oppositely, scholars from China and Japan are unlikely to contribute to book reviews.