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Issues
- individual scholars
- international benchmark
- journals and small learned societies
- preferred output types
- interface between academic and ‘general’
Open Access and the Humanities and Social Sciences Professor Nigel - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Open Access and the Humanities and Social Sciences Professor Nigel - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Open Access and the Humanities and Social Sciences Professor Nigel Vincent, FBA (The University of Manchester ) Vice-President Research, British Academy Issues individual scholars international benchmark journals and small learned
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RAE 2008 outputs by publication type: Humanities
Books Chapters Journal Articles Other English 39% 27% 31% 3% History 40% 22% 37% 1% French 37% 23% 39% 1% Philosophy 14% 20% 65% 1%
Totals based on submissions drawn from the top 10 institutions for each field and with a GPA of 2.5 or better
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RAE 2008 outputs by publication type: Social Sciences
Books Chapters Journal Articles Other Sociology 22% 10% 64% 3% Law 18% 15% 65% 1% Politics 29% 9% 62% 0% Economics 1% 2% 89% 7%
Totals based on submissions drawn from the top 10 institutions for each field and with a GPA of 2.5 or better
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RAE 2008 outputs by publication type
Books Chapters Journal articles Other Biological Anthropology 2% 4% 93% Social Anthropology 31% 29% 37% 3% One institution made two separate submissions to the Anthropology Panel:
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Patterns
- different disciplines display different publication
profiles
- such profiles are relatively constant over time
and institution
- similar profiles also hold in Europe and the USA
and define the benchmark for international research reputations
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Monographs
- tend to be single-authored
- not captured by usual bibliometric methods
- international gold standard in some fields
- difficult boundary between ‘academic’ and