Abstract: The fields of humanities and social sciences are often deprived of inclusion within the international citation indexes such as Scopus and Web of Science (WOS). The reason for this offshift in the indexes are commonly associated with the format of published works, e.g. the most common type of published works in humanities are monographs (though the scientific journals are on the rise), which are not typically included in WOS and Scopus. Even though Scopus is far more inclusive of such types and fields in comparison to WOS, there is still a gap t...
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