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Coauthorship of journal articles and book chapters in the social sciences and humanities (2000–2010)
Author(s) -
Ossenblok Truyken L.B.,
Verleysen Frederik T.,
Engels Tim C.E.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.903
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 2330-1643
pISSN - 2330-1635
DOI - 10.1002/asi.23015
Subject(s) - flemish , publishing , library science , humanities , sociology , computer science , political science , history , art , archaeology , law
This study analyzes coauthorship patterns in the social sciences and humanities ( SSH ) for the period 2000 to 2010. The basis for the analysis is the F lemish A cademic B ibliographic D atabase for the S ocial S ciences and H umanities ( VABB ‐ SHW ), a comprehensive bibliographic database of peer‐reviewed publications in the SSH by researchers affiliated with F lemish universities. Combining data on journal articles and book chapters, our findings indicate that collaborative publishing in the SSH is increasing, though considerable differences between disciplines remain. Conversely, we did observe a sharp decline in single‐author publishing. We further demonstrate that coauthored SSH articles in journals indexed in the W eb of S cience ( WoS ) generally have a higher (and growing) number of coauthors than do either those in non‐ WoS journals or book chapters. This illustrates the need to include non‐ WoS data and book chapters when studying coauthorship in the SSH .