Comparative Study on Peer Review and Bibliometric Analysis Used for Monographs Evaluation in the Area of Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Yuan Xilin Shen Chen
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Received date: 2020-10-15

  Online published: 2020-11-17

Abstract

Peer review and bibliometric analysis are two main methods used for evaluation of academic monographs in the field of Humanities and social sciences, but the differences of the evaluation results using two different evaluation methods should be concerned and discussed. Focus on the Chinese History monographs, the author analyzes the citations of prize-winning works of Guo Moruo Prize in Chinese History and compares the citations of the winning books with the other works in the same subject field in the same period to explore the correlation between the two evaluation methods of academic monographs and found that the results of peer review is significantly correlated with the result of bibliometric analysis. And the academic influence of academic monographs selected by peer review is significantly higher than other monographs in the same period.

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Yuan Xilin Shen Chen . Comparative Study on Peer Review and Bibliometric Analysis Used for Monographs Evaluation in the Area of Humanities and Social Sciences[J]. Library & Information, 2020 , 40(05) : 24 -30 . DOI: 10.11968/tsyqb.1003-6938.2020078

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