Citation indicators are increasingly used in book-based disciplines to support peer-review in the evaluation of authors and to gauge the prestige of publishers. However, since global citation databases seem to offer weak coverage of books outside the West, it is not clear whether the influence of non-Western books can be assessed with citations. To investigate this, citations were extracted fro...

This article addresses the humanities scholar who fears that are increasingly seen as irrelevant and unnecessary. It offers a defence of which resists tired trope science mechanical dehumanising, instead recognises sciences equal incommensurable value. The interpret human artefacts using skills: looking, listening, speaking, reading, writing. They deal with untidy, non-abstractable state being ...

Many published studies examine the effectiveness of Google Scholar (Scholar) as an index for scholarly articles. This paper analyzes the value of Scholar in finding and labeling online full text of articles using titles from the citations of engineering faculty publications. For the fields of engineering and the engineering colleges in the study, Scholar identified online access for 25% of the ...