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The types, dynamics and predictors of social scientists’ publication productivity: Croatian empirical studies

This paper is based on the findings of the Croatian studies of publication productivity in all scientific areas, including social sciences. These questionnaire and bibliometric studies enable a more complex analysis of the patterns, visibility, trends and predictors of publication productivity in social science(s). The former studies, which cover the pre-transitional as well as post-socialist period, will be used for a synthesis of their findings about the types of productivity and productivity dynamics during the course of time, but also the findings on the significant productivity predictors which show important specificities when compared to the productivity predictors in other fields. The data collecting included surveys of the whole research population (sub)samples, of the eminent scientists, of the young researchers and of the social scientists, using the same set of the respondents’ socio-professional features and performance indicators. On the other hand, bibliometric investigations show the elite productivity and visibility of social science output in the corresponding scientific subfields/communities. The findings of a comprehensive study (1996-2005 period) of all WoS indexed publications (and the citations received) by all social scientists according to the individual scientific fields, and a study of the international productivity and visibility of the sociologists with highest academic ranks will be used for a synthesis of these very restrictive bibliometric data. Contrary to these results, our (new) bibliometric study of all Croatian sociologists will compare data from several different resources: WoS (both the more and less restrictive data searching versions), Google Scholar Citation Counter and the most comprehensive data source - Croatian Scientific Bibliography (CROSBI). The aim of this study is to establish the differences in the outcome of various productivity analyses, and to examine the adequacy and comprehensiveness of the used bibliographic and citation databases for measuring, studying and monitoring social science publication production and its local and international visibility.

publication productivity; social sciences; sociology; Croatian empirical studies; bibliometric analysis; WoS & Google Scholar databases

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