Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing, UK, has announced that that nearly 400 of its titles have been accepted for inclusion in the new Thomson Reuters Book Citation Index. It is expected that this initiative will significantly increase the visibility of books and help ensure that their citations are fully recognised.
The Book Citation Index is a product within the Thomson Web of Science. Web of Science includes citation databases such as the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and the Conference Proceedings Citation Index. The Book Citation Index (BKCI) will mean that scholars can now access citation data across all major publication formats.
All included titles will appear in Web of Knowledge as a result of the Book Citation Index launch, helping to reassert the importance of book publishing in academia. Books are indexed at the chapter level, resulting in improved searches and deeper insights into the citing behaviour between books and the wider world of scholarly research.
Emerald publishes over 140 new book titles every year on a range of subjects covering business, management and economics, library and information science, and social sciences. Emerald books are written and edited by a global network of scholarly and professional contributors, all experts in their respective fields of research and practice.
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