Publicaties

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a letter to the editor, Moussa (2021) questions the impact of review articles on the ranking and indicators of journals. Applied to the management and economics FT50 journals (Fassin Scientometr 126:5911-5943, 2021), the analysis reveals that this bias is rather limited. Except for a few journals identified by Moussa, the ranking of the journal's h-indexes does not alter significantly.

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 ...