Non-bibliometric areas
Non-bibliometric areas
Scienze umane e sociali
In the non-bibliometric areas (Social Sciences and Humanities, SSH), quantitative analysis is not considered satisfactory due to several reasons:
insufficient coverage of scientific literature in the Social Sciences and Humanitiesin international reference databases (WOS and Scopus);
specific characteristics of the scientific fields that don't favor the inclusion criteria of journals in citation databases:
languages of publication (not English)
different publication types (not journals).
Therefore, the evaluation relies on qualitative peer-review.
The evaluation in non-bibliometric areas takes advatage of parameters like the number of articles in journals that are regarded as scientific or Class A (subset selected from the scientific journals) and the number of books authored by one or more authors with ISBN (or ISMN) published within a timeframe that goes from 5 to 15 years.
ANVUR takes care of defining parameters, classifying and updating lists of "scientific" and "Class A" journals. Publishing in "Class A" journals is directly relevant for determining scientific qualification.
Lately, efforts have been made to use the citation analysis for SSH disciplines as well. In WOS, for example, there are some indices that consider:
CPCI (Conference Proceedings Citation Index), divided into two sections: Science (CPCI-S) and Social Science and Humanities (CPCI-SSH),
Book Citation Index (BKCI), which indexes citations in books, both in print and electronic formats.
Scopus includes both conference papers and patents, as well as some monographic collections in the SSH. Here is the list by discipline.
For more information
https://unicatt.libguides.com/supporto_valutazione_ricerca-scientifica/settori_non_bibliometrici