Titel Deelnemers "Korte inhoud" "Journal article publishing in the social sciences and humanities" "Michal Petr, Tim Engels, Emanuel Kulczycki, Marta Dušková, Raf Guns, Monika Sieberová, Gunnar Sivertsen" "This study compares publication pattern dynamics in the social sciences and humanities in five European countries. Three are Central and Eastern European countries that share a similar cultural and political heritage (the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland). The other two are Flanders (Belgium) and Norway, representing Western Europe and the Nordics, respectively. We analysed 449,409 publications from 2013–2016 and found that, despite persisting differences between the two groups of countries across all disciplines, publication patterns in the Central and Eastern European countries are becoming more similar to those in their Western and Nordic counterparts. Articles from the Central and Eastern European countries are increasingly published in journals indexed in Web of Science and also in journals with the highest citation impacts. There are, however, clear differences between social science and humanities disciplines, which need to be considered in research evaluation and science policy." "Editorial on the original article entitled ""Permissive underfeeding of standard enteral feeding in critically ill adults"" published in the New England Journal of Medicine on June 18, 2015" "Michael Casaer, Greet Van den Berghe" "On June 18, 2015, the New England Journal of Medicine published an article entitled ""Permissive underfeeding of standard enteral feeding in critically ill adults"", which reports the results of a study that examined the impact of prolonged nutritional energy restriction for critically ill patients. The study design was unique in the sense that patients in both groups received similar doses of protein during the intervention, while the non-protein energy intake was reduced in the intervention group. The study showed no differences in outcome between the two study groups. These results add to a growing body of high quality evidence against the dogmatic belief that full enteral or parenteral feeding should be given as early as possible during critical illness to prevent complications. Further research is now needed to address the question of the optimal timing to provide more nutritional support for the benefit of the patients, possibly guided by improved biomarkers that need to be developed and validated, and to investigate underlying mechanisms." "Co-authorship of journal articles and book chapters in the social sciences and humanities (2000-2010)" "Truyken Ossenblok, Frederik Verleysen" "This study analyzes coauthorship patterns in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) for the period 2000 to 2010. The basis for the analysis is the Flemish Academic Bibliographic Database for the Social Sciences and Humanities (VABB-SHW), a comprehensive bibliographic database of peer-reviewed publications in the SSH by researchers affiliated with Flemish universities. Combining data on journal articles and book chapters, our findings indicate that collaborative publishing in the SSH is increasing, though considerable differences between disciplines remain. Conversely, we did observe a sharp decline in single-author publishing. We further demonstrate that coauthored SSH articles in journals indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) generally have a higher (and growing) number of coauthors than do either those in non-WoS journals or book chapters. This illustrates the need to include non-WoS data and book chapters when studying coauthorship in the SSH." "Fine-grained classification of social science journal articles using textual data" "Joshua Eykens, Raf Guns" "We compare two supervised machine learning algorithms—Multinomial Naïve Bayes and Gradient Boosting—to classify social science articles using textual data. The high level of granularity of the classification scheme used and the possibility that multiple categories are assigned to a document make this task challenging. To collect the training data, we query three discipline specific thesauri to retrieve articles corresponding to specialties in the classification. The resulting dataset consists of 113,909 records and covers 245 specialties, aggregated into 31 subdisciplines from three disciplines. Experts were consulted to validate the thesauri-based classification. The resulting multi-label dataset is used to train the machine learning algorithms in different configurations. We deploy a multi-label classifier chaining model, allowing for an arbitrary number of categories to be assigned to each document. The best results are obtained with Gradient Boosting. The approach does not rely on citation data. It can be applied in settings where such information is not available. We conclude that fine-grained text-based classification of social sciences publications at a subdisciplinary level is a hard task, for humans and machines alike. A combination of human expertise and machine learning is suggested as a way forward to improve the classification of social sciences documents." "Winner of the Ronald Melzack-Canadian Journal of Pain 2022 Paper of the Year Award/Récipiendaire du Prix Ronald Melzack Pour L'Annee 2022 des Articles Parus Dans la Revue Canadienne de la Douleur" "Jo Nijs, Joel Katz" "From Niche to Mainstream Method? A comprehensive mapping of QCA applications in journal articles from 1984 to 2011" "Axel Marx" "THE JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY AND INTERNET: ARTICLES AND REVIEWS ONLINE 2011" "Mathijs Lamberigts" "Comparison of classification-related differences in the distribution of journal articles across academic disciplines" "Linda Sile, Raf Guns, Frederic Vandermoere" "Even though bibliometric analyses often rely on different disciplinary classifications, it is not known to what extent the choice of classification influences bibliometric findings. Here we explore differences in the distribution of articles across disciplines using four different classifications. We use data on social sciences and humanities (SSH) journal articles from comprehensive bibliographic databases in Belgium (Flanders) and Norway (2006-2015). In our analysis we use the original classifications used in VABB-SHW and Cristin, the Flemish and the Norwegian databases, Web of Science subject categories, and Science-Metrix journal classification. Preliminary findings show that different classifications lead to considerable differences in the total number of SSH journal articles. For example, the percentage difference in the number of SSH publications for Norway is 17,5% when comparing the Science-Metrix and the original classification. This implies that there is a substantial number of publications in disciplinary terms residing on the boundaries between SSH and other knowledge domains. In contrast, on discipline level the differences due to the classification are small (the average difference in share is less than 2 p.p.). This might mean that if one employs a scheme with relatively broad categories then the choice of classification is of minor importance." "Patterns of co-authorship in journal articles in the social sciences and humanities (2000-2010)" "Truyken Ossenblok, Frederik Verleysen, Tim Engels" "This paper analyses co-authorship in Flemish Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) from the period 2000-2010, based on a full coverage bibliometric database, the VABB-SHW. Combining whole and fractional calculations on co-authorship occurrence, our findings indicate that both domestic and international collaborative publishing in the SSH is increasing, though considerable differences between disciplines remain. We further demonstrate that multi-authored Flemish SSH articles in journals indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) generally have a higher (international) co-authorship count and growth rate than those in non-WoS journals, indicating the need to include non-WoS data when studying co-authorship in the SSH." "Timely and to the point : expectations for articles and reviews at the Journal of Personnel Psychology" "Jonas Lang"