[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 ---------- List-Post: goal@eprints.org List-Post: goal@eprints.org 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.