Library Catalog Analysis as a tool in studies of social sciences and humanities: An exploratory study of published book titles in Economics |
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| Authors: | Daniel Torres-Salinas Henk F Moed |
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| Institution: | 1. Evaluación de la Ciencia y de la Comunicación Científica, Centro de Investigación Médica Aplicada, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain;2. Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, The Netherlands;1. Evaluación de la Ciencia y de la Comunicación Científica, Centro de Investigación Médica Aplicada, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain;2. Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, The Netherlands;1. Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III of Madrid, Spain;2. Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, Netherlands;1. Department of Medicine and OMERAD, A-202 E Fee Hall, Michigan State University, E Lansing, MI 48824, USA;2. Information Systems Science, Hanken School of Economics, P.O. Box 479, 00101 Helsinki, Finland;1. Department of Mathematics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA USA;2. Department of Experimental Statistics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA USA;1. Amsterdam, The Netherlands;2. Department of Information Science, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel;3. The Levy Library, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Mailstop 1102, New York, NY 10029, USA |
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| Abstract: | This paper explores the use of Library Catalog Analysis (LCA), defined as the application of bibliometric or informetric techniques to a set of library online catalogs, to describe quantitatively a scientific-scholarly field on the basis of published book titles. It focuses on its value as a tool in studies of Social Sciences and Humanities, especially its cognitive structures, main book publishers and the research performance of its actors. The paper proposes an analogy model between traditional citation analysis of journal articles and Library Catalog Analysis of book titles. It presents the outcomes of an exploratory study of book titles in Economics included in 42 academic library catalogs from 7 countries. It describes the process of data collection and cleaning, and applies a series of indicators and thematic mapping techniques. It illustrates how LCA can be fruitfully used to assess book production and research performance at the level of an individual researcher, a research department, an entire country and a book publisher. It discusses a number of issues that should be addressed in follow-up studies and concludes that LCA of published book titles can be developed into a powerful and useful tool in studies of Social Sciences and Humanities. |
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