Internationalization of academic journals: is there still a gap between social and natural sciences?

Ekaterina Dyachenko

HSE Working papers from National Research University Higher School of Economics

Abstract: In this study we compare internationalization of academic journals in six fields of science. Internationalization was investigated through journals' concentration on publishing papers from particular countries, relationship between the geographical distributions of editors and authors, and relationship between language of publication and the geographical distribution of papers. Having analyzed more than 1000 journals we can state that social sciences literature in the fields considered is still nationally and linguistically fragmented more than natural sciences literature, but in some cases the gap is not so big. One of the consequences concerning research output assessment is that usefulness of international databases having national disparity in coverage is still limited in social sciences

Keywords: scientometrics; Web of Science; sociology; economics; political science. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2013
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Published in WP BRP Series: Humanities / HUM, May 2013, pages 1-22

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