Abstract
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.
Publication types
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
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Cross-Cultural Comparison*
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Europe
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Humanities / statistics & numerical data*
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Humans
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Periodicals as Topic / statistics & numerical data*
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Publishing / statistics & numerical data
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Social Sciences / statistics & numerical data*
Grants and funding
The work was supported by the COST Action CA15137 “European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities” (ENRESSH) through an STSM grant to Michal Petr. The work of Raf Guns and T.C.E. Engels is supported by the Flemish Government through its funding of the Flemish Centre for Research & Development Monitoring (ECOOM), and the work of Gunnar Sivertsen was supported by the Research Council of Norway, Grant 256223 FORINNPOL, the work of Emanuel Kulczycki was supported by the National Science Centre in Poland, Grant UMO-2017/26/E/ HS2/00019. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.