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(BKCI) and Science Citation Index (SCI, SoSCI, A&HCI)

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In 2011, Thomson-Reuters introduced the Book Citation Index (BKCI) as part of the Science
Citation Index (SCI). The interface of the Web of Science version 5 enables users to search for
both “Books” and “Book Chapters” as new categories. Books and book chapters, however, were
always among the cited references, and book chapters have been included in the database since
2005. We explore the two categories with both BKCI and SCI, and in the sister social sciences
(SoSCI) and the arts & humanities (A&HCI) databases. Book chapters in edited volumes can be
highly cited. Books contain many citing references but are relatively less cited. This may find its
origin in the slower circulation of books than of journal articles. It is possible to distinguish
between monographs and edited volumes among the “Books” scientometrically. Monographs
may be underrated in terms of citation impact or overrated using publication performance
indicators because individual chapters are counted as contributions separately in terms of
articles, reviews, and/or book chapters.

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1-20

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English

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(BKCI) and Science Citation Index (SCI, SoSCI, A&H

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