Do prestigious Spanish scholarly book publishers have more teaching impact?
Abstract
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the educational value of prestigious and productive Spanish scholarly publishers based on mentions of their books in online scholarly syllabi. Design/methodology/approach Syllabus mentions of 15,117 books from 27 publishers were searched for, manually checked and compared with Microsoft Academic (MA) citations. Findings Most books published by Ariel, Síntesis, Tecnos and Cátedra have been mentioned in at least one online syllabus, indicating that their books have consistently high educational value. In contrast, few books published by the most productive publishers were mentioned in online syllabi. Prestigious publishers have both the highest educational impact based on syllabus mentions and the highest research impact based on MA citations. Research limitations/implications The results might be different for other publishers. The online syllabus mentions found may be a small fraction of the syllabus mentions of the sampled books. Practical implications Authors of Spanish-language social sciences and humanities books should consider general prestige when selecting a publisher if they want educational uptake for their work. Originality/value This is the first study assessing book publishers based on syllabus mentions.Citation
Amalia Mas-Bleda, Mike Thelwall, (2018) "Do prestigious Spanish scholarly book publishers have more teaching impact?", Aslib Journal of Information Management, Vol. 70 Issue: 6, pp.673-690, https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-04-2018-0094Publisher
Emerald Publishing LimitedJournal
Aslib Journal of Information ManagementAdditional Links
https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/AJIM-04-2018-0094Type
Journal articleLanguage
enISSN
2050-3806ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1108/AJIM-04-2018-0094
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