外文学术电子图书学科影响力比较研究与思考

Comparative Research and Reflection on Discipline Influence of Foreign Scholarly Electronic Books

[目的/意义]比较分析不同学科的外文学术电子图书影响力差异,丰富电子图书评价方法,为完善电子图书分类分学科的科学评价体系提供有益参考。[方法/过程]采用Bookmetrix,以经管类、教育类的学术电子图书为研究对象,对其传统引文指标与Altmetrics指标(Mendeley读者数、关注量、下载量)、书评量的相关性与一致性定量分析,比较两学科外文电子图书各指标之间的差异并进行非参数检验。[结果/结论]研究发现:被引量、读者数、下载量等具有较高的指标覆盖率;经K-S Z独立双样本检验,经管类和教育类电子图书的被引量、下载量存在显著差异,关注量、读者数、书评量无显著差异(p=0.05);指标相关性具有学科差异性,被引量与Mendeley读者数的相关性,经管类图书高于教育类图书;被引量测度的是学术电子图书的学术影响力,使用数据(下载量等)与补充计量学数据较多反映图书的社会影响力。评价中文学术电子图书应将多源异构数据处理转化,构建多指标综合评价体系,将定性与定量方法相融合,使评价更全面、科学。

[Purpose/significance]Comparative analysis of the influence of foreign academic electronic books in different disciplines is to enrich evaluation methods of electronic books and provide beneficial preferences for improving the scientific evaluation system of electronic books classification by disciplines.[Method/process]Bookmetrix was used to study academic electronic books in the fields of economics and management and education.The correlation and consistency between their traditional citation metrics and Altmetrics metrics(Mendeley readership,number of followers,number of downloads)and book reviews were quantitatively analyzed to compare the differences between the metrics of foreign electronic books in the two disciplines,and nonparametric tests were performed.[Result/conclusion]This paper finds that:The number of citations,readers,downloads with higher index coverage rate;By Kolmogorov-Smirnov Z independent two-sample test,economics and management and education of electronic books are significantly different from the number of downloads and citations.However,the number of online mentions,readers,reviews of the two has not significant differences(p=0.05);Correction between indicators present discipline differences:The correlation between the citations and the number of Mendeley readers of economics and management books is higher than that of education books.Citations show academic influence of academic e-books,and usage data(the number of downloads,etc.)and Altmetrics data reflect more societal impact of books.For the evaluation of Chinese academic e-books,multi-source heterogeneous data processing should be transformed,a multi-indicator evaluation system should be constructed,and qualitative and quantitative methods should be combined to make the evaluation more comprehensive and scientific.