East-African Social Sciences and Humanities Journals Active in 2008-2009

Research Data of „East-African Social Sciences and Humanities Publishing: A Handmade Bibliometrics Approach“, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, València (Spain), September 14-16, 2016. Corrected second version: due to an error, the journal “Chemchemi” was not included in “1 final list merged” and “7 ceased-established”. However, this does not change the conclusions drawn in the paper. Abstract of the paper: For Eastern Africa, very little information about the SSH knowledge production can be found from a European perspective. Adequate indicators like information-rich bibliographic databases that cover East-Africa-based journals and book publishers are lacking. This research in progress explores their indexing situation in detail, their development, which is closely connected to political history, their (non-)usage, and affiliations as well as career-stages of their authors. Furthermore, it also pays attention to East-Africa-based SSH researchers who use other publication venues. Any bibliometric analysis in this field needs to rely on manual data collection, otherwise it would be heavily biased. This study lays out the foundation for citation analyses, qualitative research on the publications' content and the self-description of East-African scholars against the background of an academic environment that is often described as “international”.

《东非社会科学与人文出版：手工文献计量学（bibliometrics）方法》研究数据集，收录于《第21届国际科学技术指标会议论文集》，西班牙巴伦西亚，2016年9月14日至16日。修订第二版：因前期操作失误，期刊《Chemchemi》未被纳入「最终合并列表1」与「停刊/创刊期刊7」范畴，但该疏漏未影响本文得出的研究结论。本文摘要：从欧洲视角出发，目前关于东非地区社会科学与人文（Social Sciences and Humanities, SSH）知识生产的相关资料极为匮乏，且缺乏覆盖东非本土期刊与图书出版商的高质量信息型文献计量数据库等适配性研究指标。本在研项目详细考察了东非SSH出版物的索引收录现状、与政治历史紧密关联的发展脉络、使用（及未使用）情况，以及作者所属机构与职业阶段；同时也关注了依托其他出版渠道发表成果的东非本土SSH研究者。该领域的任何文献计量分析都必须依赖人工数据采集，否则将产生严重的研究偏倚。本研究为引文分析、出版物内容质性研究，以及在常被冠以「国际化」标签的学术环境背景下，针对东非学者的自我表述研究奠定了基础。