%0 Journal Article %1 yang2019performance %A Yang, Siluo %A Zheng, Mengxue %D 2019 %J Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology %K altmetrics geisteswissenschaften sozialwissenschaften %N 1 %P 326-335 %R 10.1002/pra2.69 %T Performance of citations and altmetrics in the social sciences and humanities %U https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pra2.69 %V 56 %X ABSTRACT It has always been argued that social sciences and humanities (SSH) impact evaluation calls for a broader range of indicators than only bibliometric indicators. This study analyzes the performance of scientific SSH publications using 1,327,924 records from the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI), and 629,586 records from Altmetric.com. The research covers a period of 5 years (2013–2017); three publication types (articles, reviews, and proceedings papers); four selected subject fields; three citation indicators; and 13 altmetric indicators. The comparative analysis of SSH performance is studied in both citation and altmetric pattern, and an attempt is made to interpret the results in both the metric and discipline contexts. Major contributions of this study include the extension of analysis methods for the SSH, as well as the validation of altmetric indicators.

@article{yang2019performance, abstract = {ABSTRACT It has always been argued that social sciences and humanities (SSH) impact evaluation calls for a broader range of indicators than only bibliometric indicators. This study analyzes the performance of scientific SSH publications using 1,327,924 records from the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and the Arts \& Humanities Citation Index (A\&HCI), and 629,586 records from Altmetric.com. The research covers a period of 5 years (2013–2017); three publication types (articles, reviews, and proceedings papers); four selected subject fields; three citation indicators; and 13 altmetric indicators. The comparative analysis of SSH performance is studied in both citation and altmetric pattern, and an attempt is made to interpret the results in both the metric and discipline contexts. Major contributions of this study include the extension of analysis methods for the SSH, as well as the validation of altmetric indicators.}, added-at = {2019-12-12T09:12:36.000+0100}, author = {Yang, Siluo and Zheng, Mengxue}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2c8cc35e0c3716a7db9fe844b40cdc3a2/wdees}, doi = {10.1002/pra2.69}, eprint = {https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/pra2.69}, interhash = {20b3c4d6e277b5171587127d3b09dffc}, intrahash = {c8cc35e0c3716a7db9fe844b40cdc3a2}, journal = {Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology}, keywords = {altmetrics geisteswissenschaften sozialwissenschaften}, number = 1, pages = {326-335}, timestamp = {2019-12-12T09:12:36.000+0100}, title = {Performance of citations and altmetrics in the social sciences and humanities}, url = {https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pra2.69}, volume = 56, year = 2019 }