Die Buchpublikationen der Nobelpreis-Ökonomen und die führenden Buchverlage der Disziplin. Eine bibliometrische Analyse

Recent contributions in the expanding discipline of scientometry and bibliometrics have started to study not only the "impact" of publications in journals, but also in books. This methodology can be applied to individual authors or even to the "impact" of entire publishing compan...

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Main Author: Tausch, Arno
Format: Report
Language:English
German
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/67224/
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/67224/1/MPRA_paper_67224.pdf
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Summary:Recent contributions in the expanding discipline of scientometry and bibliometrics have started to study not only the "impact" of publications in journals, but also in books. This methodology can be applied to individual authors or even to the "impact" of entire publishing companies. One basic idea of this kind of analysis is simple, not to say downright vulgar. Is a book or book series important, it must be surely not only be cited internationally, but it also must be physically or electronically present in a library, because after all, scientists and students will want to work with the book. Such comparisons can use the information, provided by the open-access version of the OCLC "Worldcat". The global union catalog OCLC was founded in America in 1967 and today integrates library collections in 113 countries around the world. OCLC Classify can pinpoint with accuracy how many libraries in the world - from northern Norway to Chile, and from California to Europe and Africa to Australia, including Russia and India - have copies of the scientific work x or y in their inventory; and the system also ranks the works of each global author by the number of global libraries, holding the item. Adam Smith's classic "An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" manages to be held in 41051 libraries; and William Shakespeare's "The tragey of Romeo and Juliet" in 39911 libraries. Among the possible new indicators to measure the impacts of books or book series we also designed a new measure, based on the check-out rate according to the Harvard-Hollis catalog, reflecting the use of a book/book series in the largest academic library in the world, offering clues to the de-facto reading habits of the university community, which accounts for more than 1 out of 6 academic trajectories of Nobel Prize winners. Applying the logic of the Harvard catalogue to two leading German economists, we realize for example that Hanns-Werner Sinn from CESifo Institute in Munich and Marcel Fratzscher from the German Institute for ...