Profiles of monograph authors in the social sciences and humanities: an analysis of productivity, career stage, co-authorship, disciplinary affiliation and gender, based on a regional bibliographic database
Publication type
journal article
Publication date
2017
Author(s)
Verleysen, F.T.
Ossenblok, T.L.B.
Language
English
Discipline(s)
Abstract
Scholarly monograph authors are compared to other authors, based on bibliographic data registered in the VABB-SHW database from Flanders (Belgium). Monograph authors are found to be most often established male researchers with high productivity, who are relatively less involved in research collaboration (co-authored publications) than are other authors. There exists a clear divergence between most of the individual social science disciplines, where monograph authors make up a marginal share of all authors, and several humanities disciplines where shares are up to one fifth. Relatively more female and non-established authors publish monographs in the humanities compared to the social sciences. A statistical comparison of productivity points to diverging publication patterns in Flemish SSH research: the group of most productive authors counts both monograph authors who also rely on other book publication types, and other authors who publish mostly journal articles. © 2017, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary.
Journal
Scientometrics
ISSN
1588-2861
Volume
111
Issue
3
Pagination
1673-1686