社會科學德語核心期刊被引用模式探討

A Case Study of German Language Core Journals for Characterizing Citation Patterns in the Social Sciences

社會科學領域出版品的發表常以多元異質的出版管道為特徵，主題亦偏重於國內性議題為主（Nederhof, 2006; Hicks & Wang, 2011）。然而，作為學術評鑑常使用的書目計量指標，卻多以國際同儕審查期刊論文作為主要的研究結果。因此，現行的學術評鑑制度確實引起社會科學領域的學者對其出版特性之影響有所討論。本研究在陳述該問題點之餘，更欲以個案研究的方式明確呈現出社會學與政治學領域德語核心期刊之引用與被引模式。研究結果顯示，在社會學德語核心期刊中有67%的文章引用期刊以外的出版物，政治學德語核心期刊則有76%引用期刊以外的出版物。在2000-2009年間，發表未被Web of Science資料庫收錄之文獻比例則大體維持不變，而兩領域引用WOS期刊的比例也大致相同。唯社會學德語核心期刊引用專書比例（46%）較政治學德語核心期刊（38%）高；而政治學德語核心期刊引用非WOS收錄之文獻比例（38%）則較社會學德語核心期刊（21%）高。

Publication practices in the social sciences are characterized by the use of heterogeneous publication channels and a stronger national focus (Nederhof, 2006; Hicks & Wang, 2011). At the same time the use of bibliometric indicators in research evaluation promotes journal articles in international peer reviewed journals as the main style of publishing research results. The question emerges to which extent this changes publication practices in these disciplines. In our contribution we address this question and present results of a case study which investigates publication and referencing patterns of core German language journals in sociology and political science. Based on an explorative analysis of reference lists we describe patterns and changes of the parameters of the knowledge base of these journals. The analysis of the results in this study shows that with a total of 67% in the sociology and 76% in the political science the core German journals predominantly refer to non-journal publications. Besides, the share of non-source publications basically remains constant in the time period 2000-2009, and the share of references to source journals is the same in both disciplines. The difference between sociology and political science is: publications in the German language sociology journals have more references to monographs (46%) than publications in the German language political science journals (38%), but these political science journals reference to other non-source publications (38%) much more than sociology (21%).