Re: Request for journal/article/field statistics from Ulrichs and ISI

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 21:04:48 +0100

    [Further corroborative data from Carol Tenopir that Ulrich's
     covers 24K peer-reviewed journals, of which 18K are
     self-described as "scholarly/academic." Still a mystery what
     fields the other 6,000 peer-reviewed journals are in! -- SH]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 14:56:34 -0400
From: ctenopir <ctenopir AT utk.edu>
To: harnad AT coglit.soton.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Request for journal/article/field statistics from Ulrichs and ISI

Stevan, You are right that the exact number of journals depends on the
search strategy, version of Ulrich's used (and even Ulrich's indexing
policies). To avoid the problem of spurious accuracy is why I now always
do as you do and round the number off. I check this every 6 months or so
(last time for part of the strategies was a few weeks ago). Attached are
the Feb. 2003 and Oct. 2003 counts from ulrichsweb with the stategies
given (there are many ways to slice this cake.) Carol

Carol Tenopir, Professor
School of Information Sciences and
Interim Director, Center for Information Studies
University of Tennessee
1345 Circle Park Drive, 451 Communications Bldg.
Knoxville, TN 37996-0341
(865) 974-7911 FAX (865) 974-4967
web.utk.edu/~tenopir/


Searches of ulrichsweb.com, Feb 12, 2003 Aug 21, 2003
Carol Tenopir

Requested searches

1. Limited to academic/scholarly periodicals 43677

2. Limited to active academic/scholarly periodicals 39565 41,232

3. Limited to academic/scholarly refereed periodicals 18675

4. Limited to active academic/scholarly refereed periodicals 17649

5. Limited to academic/scholarly online periodicals 15199

6. Limited to active academic/scholarly online periodicals 14647 15,481

7. Limited to refereed periodicals 25367 26,557

8. Refereed andnot academic/scholarly 6692

Other searches of potential interest

1. Limited to active periodicals (of all types) 175,639

2. Limited to active refereed periodicals (of all types) 23231

3. Limited to active online periodicals (of all types) 33393

4. Limited to active online refereed periodicals (all types) 12575

5. Limited to active online refereed academic/scholarly periodicals 10968

6. Keyword search scien* OR techn* OR medic*
Limited to active online refereed academic/scholarly periodicals 8977

7. Keyword search scien* OR techn* OR medic* 13009
Limited to active refereed academic/scholarly periodicals

8. Keyword search scien* OR techn* OR medic* OR soci*
Limited to active refereed academic/scholarly periodicals 14240

9. Subject search scien* OR techn* OR medic*
Limited to active refereed academic/scholarly periodicals 3840


10. Subject search scien* OR techn* OR medic*
Limited to active refereed academic/scholarly periodicals 5699

11. Subject search scien* OR techn* OR medic* OR soci*
Limited to active refereed academic/scholarly periodicals 6145

12. Subject search scien* OR techn* OR medic* OR soci*
Limited to active refereed online academic/scholarly periodicals 5076
 12 but active online academic/scholarly 11825

Definitions from the Ulrich's online glossary:

Active: A publication status that indicates that a title is currently
being published.

Refereed: Otherwise known as peer-review. Refers to the system of
critical evaluation of manuscripts/articles by professional colleagues
or peers. The content of refereed publications is sanctioned, vetted, or
otherwise approved by a peer-review or editorial board. The peer-review
and evaluation system is utilized to protect, maintain, and raise the
quality of scholarly material published in serials. Publications subject
to the referee process are assumed, then, to contain higher quality
content than those that aren't.
Received on Thu Sep 04 2003 - 21:04:48 BST