Article: A Comparative International Study of Scientific Journal Databases in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (SSH)
From the Abstract:
Presented here for the first time in a comparative table are the contents of the databases that inventory the journals in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (SSH), of the Web of Science (published by Thomson Reuters) and of Scopus (published by Elsevier), as well as of the biographical lists European Reference Index for Humanities (ERIH) (published by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and of the French Agence d'Evaluation de la Recherche et de l'Enseignement Supérieur (AERES). With some 20,000 entries, this is an almost exhaustive overview of the wealth of publications in the Social Sciences and the Humanities, at last made available in this table, adopting the same nomenclature for classing the journals according to their disciplines as the one used in 27 workstations of the ESF. The multiple assignments reveal the multidisciplinarity of the journals, which is quite frequent in SHS (Social Sciences and Humanities), but also sometimes the incoherence of databases that have not been corrected.
The research was carried out in 2008 with the financial support of the TGE Adonis of the CNRS. An updated version will soon be presented online.
The final objective of this project, which concerns the entire international community of the Social
Sciences and the Humanities, is to put online, in a bilingual English/French version, the database of JournalBase in interactive mode on a collaborative platform, as well as the final report of the study, so that the decision-makers, the scientists, the experts in scientific information have access to up-to-date information, and so that they may contribute to forward movement in the reflection on these questions, through the exchange of experiences and of good working practices.
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