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It concludes that, while SSCI is a valuable tool in assessing the presence and impact of Polish sociology in an international context, a deeper view of the discipline and its development may be obtained through the analysis of a locally oriented index.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1177\/016555159802400103","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2004,12,17]],"date-time":"2004-12-17T20:36:35Z","timestamp":1103315795000},"page":"19-32","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Polish Sociology Citation Index as an example of usage of national citation                 indexes in scientometric analysis of social sciences"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"Berenika M.","family":"Webster","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Newcastle upon Tyne, UK,"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[1998,2,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"atypb1","unstructured":"[1] See\n                      Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa\n                      31 (1995) (entire issue) for the                 published proceedings of a conference on assessment of an individual scholar,                 research institute and discipline [in Polish]."},{"key":"atypb2","unstructured":"[2] The most popular citation indexes are those produced by the Institute of                 Scientific Information:\n                      Science Citation Index\n                      ,\n                      Social Sciences                     Citation Index\n                      and\n                      Arts and Humanities Citation Index\n                      ."},{"key":"atypb3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/BF02016909"},{"key":"atypb4","unstructured":"[4] Creating local citation indices has become increasingly popular for                 locally oriented disciplines in non-English speaking countries. See, for example,                 [5, 6, 7]."},{"issue":"1","key":"atypb5","first-page":"67","volume":"41","author":"F.C. Peres","year":"1996","journal-title":"Quarterly Bulletin of the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists"},{"issue":"3","key":"atypb6","first-page":"121","volume":"29","author":"E. Kostolansky","year":"1991","journal-title":"Kniznice a Vedecke Informacie"},{"key":"atypb7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/BF02093626"},{"issue":"2","key":"atypb8","first-page":"61","volume":"1","author":"M.B. Line","year":"1981","journal-title":"Social Science Information Studies"},{"issue":"1","key":"atypb9","first-page":"19","volume":"2","author":"R.N. Broadus","year":"1967","journal-title":"The American Sociologist"},{"key":"atypb10","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1108\/EUM0000000007200"},{"key":"atypb11","unstructured":"[11] A list of papers was created by searching the institutional affiliation                 field of their authors IN=POLAND) in the\n                      Source Index\n                      and selecting                 articles dealing with various aspects of sociology."},{"key":"atypb12","unstructured":"[12] A post-doctoral degree awarded after publication of a monograph. The\n                      habilitation\n                      degree establishes a scholar as a                 \u2018seasoned\u2019 researcher and puts the individual on a tenure track.                 In Polish universities, a scholar, to keep his or her academic post, is required to                 obtain\n                      habilitation\n                      within five years of achieving the PhD."},{"key":"atypb13","unstructured":"[13] According to the subject classification published annually in\n                      Journal Citation Reports\n                      ."},{"key":"atypb14","unstructured":"[14] The names of several sociologists who currently are prolific but are                 still at the beginning of their research career (e.g. they have recently received                 their PhD degrees) were checked against\n                      SSCI\n                      . None of them was cited in\n                      Citation Index\n                      ."},{"key":"atypb15","unstructured":"[15] Self-citations were excluded from the count."},{"key":"atypb16","unstructured":"[16]\n                      Polish Sociological Bulletin\n                      (an English-language publication                 of the Polish Sociological Association) was the only Polish sociological journal                 ever indexed in\n                      SSCI\n                      (for a few years in the early 1980s)."},{"key":"atypb17","unstructured":"[17] Fraction numbers result from assigning fractions of                 individual\u2019s output to a given institution. If an author has worked in two                 or more institutions during their career and was cited ten or more times between                 1981 and 1995, he or she is \u2018split\u2019 between regions and                 institutions according to the length of employment and the citations to their works                 are divided respectively between these regions or institutions."},{"key":"atypb18","unstructured":"[18] See research by Barbara Stefaniak on international cooperation in                 science. A lecture delivered on 2 December 1996 at the Nicholas Copernicus                 University in Torun."},{"key":"atypb19","unstructured":"[19] For the purpose of comparison, the USA, Germany, Italy, Spain, Hungary,                 Czechoslovakia and Greece were chosen. As the USA is the leading country in                 sociological output and the best represented in\n                      SSCI\n                      , it forms a standard                 against which other countries can be measured. The remainder of the countries                 selected are European countries with high economic indicators (Germany and Italy),                 with economic indicators similar to Poland (Spain, Hungary, Czech Republic) or                 economically less developed countries (Slovak Republic and Greece). American authors                 were cited 214,265 times, German 3,371, Italian 1,009, Spanish 300, Hungarian 212                 and Greek 53 times. Poland, with 249 citations, was placed 30th of 94 countries listed."},{"key":"atypb20","unstructured":"Analysis of the NSI On Disc showed a different number of citations received                 by Polish sociologists to that counted by the author of this paper. The                 author\u2019s research identified 2,954 citations to works by Polish authors,                 while NSI listed only 249 citations. The difference may have arisen from a different                 definition of what constitutes \u2018sociology\u2019 or \u2018a                 Polish sociologist\u2019. In this research, the criteria for selection was the                 authors\u2019 institutional affiliation, and all references to their works made                 between 1981 and 1995 (excluding self-citations) were counted. Criteria for                 classification used by the authors of NSI are unknown to the author of this paper."},{"key":"atypb21","unstructured":"[20]\n                      PSCI\n                      includes the names of about 1,600 source authors. From                 that group, a sample of 285 names was selected for the analysis and comparison with\n                      SSCI\n                      ."},{"key":"atypb22","volume-title":"Library Management East-West Relations: Proceedings of the Seminar held in Torun on 6-12 November 1994","author":"I.R.M. 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