All entries for September 2007

Arts & Humanities bibliometric tools: stretching Scopus

Writing about web page http://www.scopus.com/

I have been looking for a bibliometric tool for Arts & Humanities, something similar to Journal Citation Reports and ideally also something like ISIhighlycited.com

There are alternative tools that can be stretched to serve for A&H scientometrics, like OCLC WorldCat for libraries’ holdings, or Harzing’s Publish or Perish for Google Scholar, but I have just had a quick play with Scopus and it retrieved 93,934 references, each with their “Cited by” count, which could of course be narrowed down to individual journal titles and then be all exported and added up. When I included the “multidisciplinary” references the number of articles retrieved was 394,058, which can be broken down into document types:
Article (293,016)
Review (23,985)
Note (19,258)
Short Survey (15,530)
Letter (15,362)
Editorial (7,160)
Erratum (3,925)
Conference Review (13)
Book (1)

Alejandro Chiner Arias : 19 Sep 2007 15:26 |  Tags: Arts Bibliometrics Humanities Scientometrics Scopus |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Lectopia (formerly the iLecture System and now Echo 360 since acquired by Apreso)

Writing about web page http://www.lectopia-service.uwa.edu.au/welcome

Lectopia has already eight years of history. I wonder why it has not been taken up by more universities outside Australia, or perhaps it has?

Alejandro Chiner Arias : 10 Sep 2007 14:33 |  Tags: Capture Lecture Live Podcasting Recording Streaming Video |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem