Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design as a Journal: The Interdisciplinarity of its Environment and the Citation Impact

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 826-838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loet Leydesdorff
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Citation Impact ◽  
Social Science Citation Index ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Matrix

The citation impact of Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design can be visualized using its citation relations with journals in its environment as the links of a network. The size of the nodes is varied in correspondence to the relative citation impact in this environment. Additionally, one can correct for the effect of within-journal ‘self’-citations. The network can be partitioned and clustered using algorithms from social network analysis. After transposing the matrix in terms of rows and columns, the citing patterns can be mapped analogously. Citing patterns reflect the activity of the community of authors who publish in the journal, while being cited indicates reception. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design is cited across the interface between the social sciences and the natural sciences, but its authors cite almost exclusively from the domain of the Social Science Citation Index.

Is It a Home Run? Measuring Relative Citation Rates in Accounting Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia M. Dechow ◽  
Richard G. Sloan ◽  
Jean (Jieyin) Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Citation Index ◽  
Citation Impact ◽  
Social Science Citation Index ◽  
Performance Evaluations ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Total Citation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Citation Metrics ◽  
Published Research

SYNOPSIS We propose a new set of citation metrics for evaluating the relative impact of scholarly research in accounting. Our metrics are based on current practices in bibliometrics and normalize citations by both field (accounting) and year of publication. We show that our normalized citation metrics dominate other commonly used metrics in accounting when predicting the long-term citation impact of recently published research. We conduct our analysis using citations from the Social Science Citation Index for the top six general interest accounting journals. More generally, our metrics can be readily constructed using any citation database and for any subfield of accounting. The metrics simply require the total citation counts for a benchmark set of papers published in the same calendar year. The use of these metrics should enable more informed performance evaluations of junior accounting researchers.

Two Faces of the “Relational Turn”

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (01) ◽  
pp. 27-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peeter Selg
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Central Concept ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
American Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
Previous Decade ◽  
Anglo American

ABSTRACTIn the previous decade, the literature on “relational approach” has burgeoned in the social sciences. Recently, a “relational turn” in political science was called for in a symposium in this journal (McClurg and Young, 2011). The participants perceived a promising path for such a “turn” by introducing social network analysis (SNA) into political science. This call is informed by a conviction that the central concept of political science— that is, power—isrelational. Considering this viewpoint, this article argues that there are two different understandings of the connection between the qualifier “relational” and the concept of power, referred to as the “Anglo-American” and the “Continental” perspectives. I contend that symposium participants conceived of the connection from only the Anglo-American perspective and that the Continental understanding would add extra value for political science.

scholarly journals Reciprocity in Book Reviewing among American, British and Canadian Academics

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien Larrègue ◽  
Philippe Mongeon ◽  
Jean-Philippe Warren ◽  
Cassidy R. Sugimoto ◽  
Vincent Larivière
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Social Science Citation Index ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scholarly Communication System

Books and their reviews have been historically central to knowledge dissemination in the social sciences and humanities. Despite this perceive importance, few studies have assessed the relative importance of these document types in the dissemination of knowledge. This paper aims at better understanding the place of book reviews in the scholarly communication system and to shed light--through the analysis of books on Canada, United Kingdom and United States and their reviewers--on the international circulation of ideas in the social sciences and humanities. Based on 1,675,999 book reviews indexed in the Social Science Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index over the 1975-2016 period, our results show that book reviews are decreasing in importance in all disciplines—especially those where books have historically been peripheral. We also observe a high rate of homophily between reviewers and reviewed books, with researchers being primarily interested in the books that have been written by someone from their own country. Hence, despite the now widely held assumptions of the globalization of science, social science and humanities remains a highly localized activity.

Editorial

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-4
Author(s):  
Nicholas Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Social Science Citation Index ◽  
Bibliographic Database ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Journal Citation Reports ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social

Three years ago Maarten Cleeren from Elsevier in the Netherlands wrote about Open House International as a fine journal stating that “ in recognition of the high quality and relevance to the scientific community of Open House International we are pleased to inform you that your publication has been selected for coverage in the Elsevier Bibliographic Database Scopus as of 2007”. This was therefore added to our two other database connections namely EBSCO PUBLISHING and Thomsons ISI database including all their products, The Social Science Citation Index, (SSCI,) the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, (A&HCI), Social Scisearch, Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences,(CC/S&BS) and the Current Contents/Arts & Humanities, (CC/A&H) and Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition.

Editorial

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
Nicholas Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Science Citation Index ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Social Science Citation Index ◽  
Rigorous Approach ◽  
Journal Citation Reports ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social

2006 was our 30th year of publication - quite a feat considering that our financial muscle is dependent on a relatively small group of subscribers and seven institutional subscribers. Like a poor distant Elsevier relative we had no cash to have a party or to give away subscriptions but we did look around and say that we had achieved a lot with some color issues, a web site and some double length issues. In 2006, Open House International was covered by the Thomson ISI products namely, The Social Science Citation Index, The Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Social Sci-Search, Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, Current Contents/Arts & Humanities and Journal Citation Reports / Social Sciences Edition. This was a kind of 30th birthday present. It must not be overlooked that this success was not without the unfailing support of our Board of Editors (referees) and guest editors of theme issues who have maintained the highest standards of editing through their rigorous approach to the written words of authors and to referencing and citation levels of author's manuscripts. My job, more managerial by nature, has been and still is to ensure that timely publication is maintained and that a healthy flow of quality articles is achieved. Without all these attributes citation index rating cannot be considered.

scholarly journals The Concept of Sustainability on Social Media: A Social Listening Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 2122 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Teresa Ballestar ◽  
Miguel Cuerdo-Mir ◽  
María Teresa Freire-Rubio
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Listening

The concept of sustainability has gone far beyond the issues of the sustainable management of natural and environmental resources. Nowadays, sustainability is part of the social sciences in a different way. The aim of this research was dual. Firstly, we analyzed the different contexts and areas of knowledge where this concept is used in society by using social listening on Twitter, one of the most popular social networks today. The sentiments of these conversations were rated to assess whether the feelings and perceptions of these conversations on the social network were positive or negative regarding the use of the concept. Also, we tested if these perceptions about the topic were attuned to other more formal fields, such as scientific research, or strategies followed nationally or internationally by agencies and organizations related to sustainability. The method used on this first part of the research consisted of an analysis of 15,000 tweets collected from Twitter using natural language processing (NLP) for clustering the main areas of knowledge of topics where the concept of sustainability was used, and the sentiment of these conversations on the social network. Secondly, we mapped the social network of users who generated or spread content regarding sustainability on Twitter within the period of observation. Social network analysis (SNA) focuses on the taxonomy of the network and its dynamics and identifies the most relevant players in terms of generation of conversation and also their referrers who spread their messages worldwide. For this purpose, we used Gephi, an open source software used for network analysis and visualization, that allows for the exploration and visualization of large networks of any kind, in depth. The findings of this research are new, not only because of the mix of technology and methods used for extracting data from Twitter and analyzing them from different perspectives, but also because they show that social listening is a powerful method for analyzing relevant social phenomena. Listening on social networks can be used more effectively than other more traditional processes to gather data that are more costly and time consuming and lack the momentum and spontaneity of digital conversations.

scholarly journals Social Network Survey of Peer Relationship between Urban and Rural Children

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Rural Children ◽  
Peer Relationship ◽  
Analysis Software ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Peer Nomination ◽  
The Matrix

Abstract: In the past, peer nomination method was mainly used to measure children’s peer relationship. Each child in the class was divided into five different grades, from popular to unpopular. This research studies peer relationship from the perspective of social network, and conducts social network analysis (SNA) on the basis of peer nomination. First, the data of children’s nomination and nominees are obtained by peer nomination method, then the matrix is made by Excel, and finally the social network analysis software UCINET is introduced for analysis. This method can analyze the centrality and density of children’s peer relationship from the perspective of individual and group, and express each child’s peer relationship in the form of the graph. In this way, we can further explore the characteristics, structure and influencing factors of children’s peer relationship, and put forward feasible suggestions to promote the development of children’s peer relationship.

Defending the Difference

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
True Nature ◽  
Natural Entities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Methodological Difference ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One

Dreyfus argues that there is a basic methodological difference between the natural sciences and the social sciences, a difference that derives from the different goals and practices of each. He goes on to argue that being a realist about natural entities is compatible with pluralism or, as he calls it, “plural realism.” If intelligibility is always grounded in our practices, Dreyfus points out, then there is no point of view from which one can ask about or provide an answer to the one true nature of ultimate reality. But that is consistent with believing that the natural sciences can still reveal the way the world is independent of our theories and practices.

Duality beyondPersons and Groups

2020 ◽  
pp. 391-413
Author(s):  
Sophie Mützel ◽  
Ronald Breiger
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Network Data ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Affiliation Networks ◽  
The Social ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Principle Of Duality ◽  
Seminal Article

This chapter focuses on the general principle of duality, which was originally introduced by Simmel as the intersection of social circles. In a seminal article, Breiger formalized Simmel’s idea, showing how two-mode types of network data can be transformed into one-mode networks. This formal translation proved to be fundamental for social network analysis, which no longer needed data on who interacted with whom but could work with other types of data. In turn, it also proved fundamental for the analysis of how the social is structured in general, as many relations are dual (e.g. persons and groups, authors and articles, organizations and practices), and are thus susceptible to an analysis according to duality principles. The chapter locates the concept of duality within past and present sociology. It also discusses the use of duality in the analysis of culture as well as in affiliation networks. It closes with recent developments and future directions.

The Oxford Handbook of Social Networks

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Computational Social Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
Diverse Field ◽  
The Rich

Social networks fundamentally shape our lives. Networks channel the ways that information, emotions, and diseases flow through populations. Networks reflect differences in power and status in settings ranging from small peer groups to international relations across the globe. Network tools even provide insights into the ways that concepts, ideas and other socially generated contents shape culture and meaning. As such, the rich and diverse field of social network analysis has emerged as a central tool across the social sciences. This Handbook provides an overview of the theory, methods, and substantive contributions of this field. The thirty-three chapters move through the basics of social network analysis aimed at those seeking an introduction to advanced and novel approaches to modeling social networks statistically. The Handbook includes chapters on data collection and visualization, theoretical innovations, links between networks and computational social science, and how social network analysis has contributed substantively across numerous fields. As networks are everywhere in social life, the field is inherently interdisciplinary and this Handbook includes contributions from leading scholars in sociology, archaeology, economics, statistics, and information science among others.

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