Social sciences

Library Catalog Analysis and Library Holdings Counts: Origins, Methodological Issues and Application to the Field of Informetrics

In 2009, Torres-Salinas & Moed proposed the use of library catalogs to analyze the impact and dissemination of academic books in different ways. Library Catalog Analysis (LCA) can be defined as the application of bibliometric techniques to a set of …

Una mirada alternativa a la producción científica de la Sociología española ¿Qué nos dicen las altmetrics?

En los últimos años se han introducido nuevos indicadores denominados altmétricas con los que medir el impacto de la actividad científica. Estos indicadores se obtienen a través de las menciones realizadas desde diferentes medios sociales, existiendo …

Science through Wikipedia: A novel representation of open knowledge through co-citation networks

This study provides an overview of science from the Wikipedia perspective. A methodology has been established for the analysis of how Wikipedia editors regard science through their references to scientific papers. The method of co-citation has been …