Bibliometric Indicators for Publishers: Data processing, indicators and interpretation

TL;DR

This paper presents the development and analysis of bibliometric indicators for academic publishers based on books and chapters, aiming to better measure their research impact through data processing and new metrics.

Contribution

It introduces a novel methodology for analyzing publisher impact using bibliometric indicators derived from extensive publication and citation data.

Findings

Processed 482,470 records of publications.

Analyzed 254 publishers across multiple disciplines.

Calculated six new impact indicators for publishers.

Abstract

Here we describe the Bibliometric Indicators for Publishers Project, an initiative undertaken by EC3Metrics SL for the analysis and development of indicators based on books and book chapters. Its goal is to study and analyze the publication and citation patterns of books and book chapters considering academic publishers as the unit of analysis. It aims at developing new methodologies and indicators that can better capture and define the research impact of publishers. It is an on-going project in which data sources and indicators are tested. We consider academic publishers as an analogy of journals, focusing on them as the unit of analysis. In this working paper we present the http://bipublishers.es website where all findings derived from the project are displayed. We describe the data retrieval and normalization process and we show the main results. A total 482,470 records have been retrieved and processed, identifying 342 publishers from which 254 have been analyzed. Then six indicators have been calculated for each publisher for four fields and 38 disciplines and displayed.