springernature.com THE DEVELOPMENT
AND FUTURE OF BOOK
CITATIONS HISTORY
The study of book citation indices is around 10 years old.
THE SPRINGER NATURE STUDY
221,688 records
18,791 books
531,557 citations
2015 Books indexed in Scopus 531,557
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Book series titles Individual books
Edited books in a series format usually come with both a greater number of chapters and an overall higher number of citations than non-series titles (Torres-Salinas, et al., 2014)
total citations
Computer science Earth and
Planetary Sciences
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Agricultural and
199,910 total chapters
18,791 total titles
Book
formats 77%
Titles within a series
Monographs (standalone books)
Biological Sciences Psychology
CONCLUSION
Where book scientometrics is a still relatively new area of study, more research is needed. There is also a great deal more to be known about citations themselves, for instance the intention or function of a citation, whether evidentiary, supportive, or used to refute a piece of research.
As we see more books come online, and the art and science of citation analysis further evolves.
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AUTHOR PERSPECTIVES
In our survey of 4,375 book authors, the majority reported that citations as the most important indicator of a
title’s success. *See the full results of the survey in ‘Today’s library & the future of scholarly communications’
KEY FINDINGS The majority of books take up to 8 years to reach peak citations
Average number of citations per book by discipline
50 50 67 73
23%
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