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The Market Power of Global Scientific Publishing Companies in the Age of
Globalization. An Analysis Based on the OCLC Worldcat
Arno Tausch
Abstract:
This article evaluates tendencies and trends of the global academic publishing industry, vital
for any reasonable long-term publication strategy planning in research. Such analyses are
made possible today by the OCLC Worldcat. Our multivariate attempt, combining Worldcat
global library circulation figures of publisher companies with results from earlier publisher
ranking studies, is based on factor analysis of 32 variables, and our promax factor analytical
model establishes that there are eight factors of global publisher impact, explaining almost
86% of total variance:
1. overall global standing of the company
2. company as a factor on the market
3. company impact on the global political and economic debate
4. successfully distributing best-sellers
5. impact on the scholarly community
6. successfully distributing production to more than 50 global Worldcat libraries
7. output during the last 5 years
8. outstanding academic quality
Of the 51 companies with complete data under investigation here, the following companies
are classified in the upper half: Oxford University Press; Springer; Cambridge University
Press; Routledge; World Bank; Princeton University Press; Elsevier; CRC Press; University
of Chicago Press; University of California Press; Palgrave Macmillan; MIT Press; Yale
University Press; University of North Carolina Press; De Gruyter; Wiley-Blackwell; Kluwer
Academic Publishers; University of Pennsylvania Press; Johns Hopkins University Press;
Brill; Nova Science Publishers; University of Illinois Press; Duke University Press;
University of Washington Press; and Edward Elgar. Scientists, wanting to get global
audiences, are well advised to publish with those companies; and journal editors, wanting to
get a global distribution for their journals, are equally well advised to cooperate with them.
Keywords: Role of Economics; Role of Economists; History of Thought: Individuals;
Entertainment; Media (Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Broadcasting, Publishing)
JEL-codes: A11; B 31; L82
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Introduction
The global library network OCLC Worldcat was founded in 1967 at the Ohio College Library
Center as a federation of just only 54 Ohio colleges while today it already brings together
16,548 libraries in 124 countries. Thus, it is by far the largest library network in the world and
it offers unique opportunities for academic “marketing research” in all disciplines, including
globalization studies. Its full version, OCLC First Search, is an indispensable tool for
academic research, analysis and academic strategy planning. But even open access versions of
the Worldcat already contain vital informations for the producers and consumers of global
social science, including globalization studies, alike.
OCLC Worlcat – a necessary compass in the world of globalized social science
Our article attempts to provide some basic ideas about the globalized publishing industry, the
tool to transport globally academic findings, and it does so with the help of OCLC tools, like
OCLC First Search, but also the open access portals OCLC Classify, OCLC advanced search,
and TE PUNA (the New Zealand Library catalogue) on OCLC, which already offers freely
enormous opportunities for the global research community
(https://tepuna.on.Worldcat.org/discovery).
The basic idea of the project, which was founded by Frederick Kilgour (1914 - 2006), was to
unite the knowledge of humanity available in libraries. Today, the catalog ranges from the
University of Alaska in Fairbanks, Alaska to the Universidad de Concepción in Southern
Chile, and from Tromsö University in Northern Norway to the University of Cape Town,
South Africa, and is now expanding into the Asia-Pacific region as well into the Middle East,
and Worldcat now integrates major libraries in the BRIICS countries. It will be difficult to
find a university library from one of the top 100 universities in the world, classified under the
Shanghai University Ranking
1
System or the SCIMAGO SIR University and Research
Institute ranking,
2
based on SCOPUS indexed publications
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that is not a member of the OCLC
Woldcat. Virtually all major libraries in Western Europe are also members of the OCLC
Worldcat today, for example 428 in Germany, 1212 in France and 261 in Italy.
Can any reputable academic research library now afford to remain outside this vast global
network? With 389 million entries in 491 languages, with over 40 million daily accesses
worldwide? Reasons for membership are manifold: to make the knowledge of teachers and
students stored at local libraries globally more visible, provide scientists and students with an
important navigation aid in the international science market et cetera.
1
http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2017.html
2
http://www.scimagoir.com/
3
https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus
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The OCLC Worldcat – designing scientific publication strategy and assessing global
scientific impact on your smartphone or at a mouseclick
Even on a smartphone, and even the open access the New Zealand TE PUNA on Worldcat
offers enormous research opportunities, for example the ranking of all the 1988 global
journals by global library presence corresponding to the keyword “globalization” (see Image
1).
Image 1: Ranking the global library presence of globalization-related scientific journals
with the open-access Worldcat version available from the New Zealand catalogue TE
PUNA on a smartphone
In image 2, we show the global library outreach of the journal best corresponding to the
profile of the present journal, the “Journal of Globalization Studies”. Pure and simple, the list
of global libraries cataloguing this competing journal (the “Journal of Globalization and
“TE PUNA on Worldcat”
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Development” published by Berkeley Electronic Press),
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shows the current maximum market
for any competing globalization studies journal, and this market consists of only 454 libraries
around the world.
Image 2: The library impact of the globalization studies journal with the highest global
library impact
The publishers and the editors of the present journal now can compare their own global
distribution figures with those of the Berkeley “Journal of Globalization and Development”,
and target the directors of the libraries, already subscribed to “Journal of Globalization and
Development” and not yet subscribed to the “Journal of Globalization Studies” with
subscription offers.
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The journal is indexed in SCOPUS, see:
https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=19900191475&tip=sid&clean=0
Here, the system tells you the
global library presence of a
given scientific product
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Image 3: the address lists of libraries subscribed to a competing journal in the field of
globalization studies on a smartphone
Further questions that can be answered with the OCLC Worldcat First Search are, for
example: how efficiently does your country’s or your city’s or your University’s science
reach a geographically extremely disperse audience? OCLC Classify even answers the
understandable query by any scientific author whether his or publications are available at
Harvard and Yale, Oxford and Cambridge, at the Nehru University in Delhi, at the Ben
Gurion University in Bersheba, Israel, and in Sao Paulo? And in Morocco and Jordan, in
Ghana, in Ulan Bator and in Beijing? In Sydney and in Singapore? Malaysia or Botswana?
And all this is made visible today with a single mouse click on your computer or with the
touch of your thumb on your smartphone! Here, show to our readers the readership of
Piketty’s classic (2014) in the geographical region of Central and East Asia:
Enter here an English
country name
Surface mail address
of the library
Click here to get the
next 6 results
The last page of the list
contains the libraries most
distant from the country
where you started your
search
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Image 4: Searching for global library presence with the Open Access Version OCLC
Classify: the presence of Piketty’s classic (Piketty, 2014) in Central Asia
Why you should phone your chief librarian today, telling him/her that your library must
become immediately a member of the OCLC Worldcat system
So, what are the general benefits of OCLC Worldcat?
• Access to data on library holdings and services with 2 billion holdings
• Library-centered research that draws members' attention to important topics and trends,
including access to reports from OCLC Research
In the following I present what are OCLC Worldcat's main application areas for scientific
strategy development in a global world market for science products today:
1) Determination of the global library impact of individual scientists, but also institutes,
universities, the provision of objective criteria for the assessment of the effect of book or
journal publications
2) Book Publication Impact Monitoring, also for impact studies of books, studies and journals
written at your research center on a global level and in individual regions of the world, even
over time
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3) Quick selection of the most suitable publishers for future academic book publications
which have the highest global readership for specific topics over the last few years and which
have made the works of researchers available to a maximum of libraries worldwide.
4) Academic publishers based in your country would be able to search specifically for global
libraries that already represent a true comparable market for products produced at your
company in comparison to existing market leaders.
5) Which libraries worldwide are buying products from, say, Austrian, Australian, Brazilian,
Chinese, Russian et cetera publishers? How does it compare to the distribution figures for
competing publishers with a similar profile from, say, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, etc.,
discipline for discipline?
The harsh realities of global academic publishing
Worldcat is not only your publisher’s marketing department’s dream, and a powerful tool of
scientific impact research, suitable for Vice-Deans, Vice-Presidents of Universities etc. OCLC
Worldcat tells us also a lot about the harsh realities of the globalization of science today.
We can estimate from the OCLC data that of the more than 300 million books held in global
libraries, more than 120 million books were published in English, 43 million in German, and
around 31 million in French. Especially German as a scientific language is tremendously on
the retreat over the last decades. Of the 20.8 million books published in the last 5 years, 45%
were published in English, and in the field of political science, for example, this share was
even 55%. The concentration of the publication process on a global scale is enormous. In the
field of political science alone, 13 leading publishers with an output of more than 400 political
science books during the last 5 years published none the less than 38% of the 1.7 million
English language political science titles during the last 5 years.
Table 1 summarizes this global concentration process and the global maximum library
outreach of these companies:
Table 1: The global main publishers of political science during the last 5 years
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Publisher
OCLC WC
number of
political
science
books
published
in the last 5
years
political
science
book (last 5
years) with
the highest
global
library
circulation
rate
political
science
book (last 5
years) with
the 50th
highest
global
library
circulation
rate
continuity
of
performanc
e - top 50
political
science
books (last
5 years)
share of
political
science
titles per
total titles,
last 5 years
1
Routledge
14552
681
224
32,89
5,25
2
Palgrave Macmillan
10949
1310
166
12,67
9,08
3
Springer
10083
692
305
44,08
1,97
4
Oxford University Press
6759
873
397
45,48
5,16
5
Cambridge University Press
5236
807
230
28,50
5,20
6
Princeton University Press
1405
1321
622
47,09
6,29
7
Brill
838
846
85
10,05
1,89
8
Edward Elgar
813
236
54
22,88
4,22
9
University of Pennsylvania Press
672
1297
427
32,92
8,74
10
De Gruyter
582
1283
42
3,27
0,77
11
University of Chicago Press
484
624
141
22,60
3,95
12
Yale University Press
408
832
186
22,36
3,09
13
Nova Science Publishers
402
695
458
65,90
2,43
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Calculated with https://tepuna.on.Worldcat.org/discovery - books only
We also have to emphasize that authors publishing only in Russian, German or in other
languages other than English find it much harder to reach global markets than authors, who
presented their works in English in the first place. A good work published with a leading
Russian or German language book company will often reach only 40, 50, or 100 global
libraries as a maximum. But even high-quality English language books might find it
sometimes hard to find an appropriate library outreach of more than 50 libraries, especially if
the price of a book is high or if your publisher’s marketing facilities are not so well
developed. A global social scientific star, sociologist Prof. Ronald T. Inglehart, reached with
an American University Press publisher (Abramson and Inglehart, 2009) 1235 global
libraries, while with a renown Canadian publisher (Inglehart, 2002) only global 175 libraries.
It would be sheer nonsense to believe that book number 1 by colleague Inglehart is 7 times
“better” or “more important” than book number 2, because it achieved 7 times more library
holdings.
If even a flagship foreign language publication like the Russian language “Mirovaia
ekonomika i mezhdunarodnye otnosheniia”, which was studied in the days of the Cold War
by hundreds of Western security and defense experts, only makes it to 125 global libraries,
then it’s not scientific quality or political importance, which matter, but that the journal is a
foreign language product on the Anglo-American dominated market, pure and simple. Seen in
such away, a library outreach of 100 libraries for a scientific publication published in a
country like Russia is not a defeat but a victory. Still, the publishers of “Mirovaia
ekonomika” can compare the holdings of their journal with the maximum circulation of any
Russian language journal in the world today, the “Obshchestvo: Politika, ekonomika, pravo =
Society: politics, economics, law.” published in Krasnodar by the LLC Publishing House
'HORS', [according to OCLC First Search at 676 global libraries]. These 676 global libraries
can safely be assumed to constitute the maximum library outreach of any social science
publication published in the language of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin.
As we show in the following, there are severe international market constraints even for
English language academic publications, printed at any of the University Presses of the world
today:
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Image 5: Searching for the University Press publication with the highest global outreach
on OCLC First Search
Only 1.93% of the global University Press publications of the last 5 years reached more than
500 global libraries, and the record holder was not unsurprisingly the work by Piketty (2014).
Piketty’s global audience is a good indication of the maximum market of an English language
book or journal on globalization.
Libcitation – a new scientific tool to assess academic marketing success, based on OCLC
Worldcat data
Usual attempts in the field of bibliometry are centered on the concept of citation patterns,
while the globalization of book production has seldom been studied in its totality. And yet, it
is evident that in the fields of social sciences and the humanities, where book production is
still considered to be a major channel of scientific output, such attempts must and should be
made.
The present article attempts then to apply so-called Libcitation measurement techniques,
recently developed in the context of the Excellence in Research for Australia program.
Libcitation, a term first coined in a published article by Howard D. White et al., is a measure
designed to estimate the global or also regional presence of authors, universities, research
institutes or an entire scientific community on different markets:
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[The] […] measure introduced here is called the Libcitation. […] It is made on books. For a
particular book (i.e., edition of a title), it increases by 1 every time a different library reports
acquiring that book in a national or an international union catalog. Readers are invited to
think of union catalogs in a new way: as “librarians’ citation indexes.” The idea is that, when
librarians commit scarce resources to acquiring and cataloging a book, they are in their own
fashion citing it, just as scholars do when they refer to it in new works of their own; both are
engaged in bibliographic speech acts. As these “librarians’ citations” accrue differentially to
different books in union catalogs, we gain data for a new indicator. The number of libraries
holding a book at a given time constitutes its Libcitation count.
Counting the presence of author’s or even publishing companies’ outputs in Union catalogues
is a straightforward methodology to ascertain something like the “real market weight”. White
et al. point to the fact that:
“Whereas traditional citation counts reflect judgments by authors’ peers on publications
useful to them, Libcitation counts reflect judgments by librarians on the usefulness of
publications for their various audiences of readers. The Libcitation measure thus resembles a
citation impact measure in discriminating values of publications on a defined ground. It
rewards authors whose books (or other publications) are seen by librarians as having
relatively wide appeal. A book’s absolute appeal can be determined simply by counting how
many libraries hold it, but it can also be gauged in relation to other books in its subject
class.”
Since there is a very close working relationship between scholarly and teaching activities and
the respective libraries at Universities around the world, we can only emphasize the point
made by White et al.
“We anticipate the cry, “But librarians aren’t like citers; they don’t know anything!” It is
true that librarians rarely make new knowledge claims and are seldom considered the peers
of the scientists and scholars who do. Nevertheless, what they acquire and record in union
catalogs involves the wide cultural literacy that is at the heart of librarianship. On the service
front, Libcitations reflect librarians’ knowledge of audiences—their approximate sizes, the
topics that interest them, their degrees of expertise, and their localized concerns (e.g., what is
important to Australians as opposed to non-Australians). On the book front, Libcitations
reflect what librarians know about the prestige of publishers, the opinions of reviewers, and
the reputations of authors. The latter may be colored by, for example, authors’academic
affiliations, previous sales, prizes, awards, distinguished appointments, mass media coverage,
Web presence, and citedness. All of these are signals of what readers are likely to want, and
librarians must be attuned to them. A book’s Libcitation count is thus its holdings count in a
union catalog seen in a different light. Holdings counts are an unobtrusive measure that
cannot be altered by researchers changing their behavior. They cannot easily be “gamed,”
assuming current standards of record keeping. They may change over time, but data on them
already have accumulated for many years in several union catalogs, and millions of them are
by now quite stable.”
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Even if we could theoretically assume that “non-scientific, non-market pressure” by scientists
could influence the book ordering policies of a few departments or libraries, a strong position
of a given scientist or journal or publication in the library holdings of tens of thousands of
libraries around the globe cannot be the product of coincidence or collusive pressure alone.
Librarians, first of all, listen to the ordering wishes from the respective faculties and academic
departments at their institutions, secondly, they, for themselves, also evaluate the current
literature reviews and even international press articles to round up their opinions on the
developments of a given discipline and their implications for catalogue development.
Zuccala et al. (2015) already established that there is a close correlation between Scopus-
Indexed publications and global library presence in Worldcat. Our chosen indicators take into
account the all-too-well-known fact that the global audiences in the social sciences are hardly
known. Usual attempts at citation-based rankings try to measure the standing of scientists
with other members of the science community, and hardly with the global public at large.
At the same time, this way of measurement is much more market-decision based than
analyses based on citation patterns, which tell us hardly anything about the geographical
aspects of the world distribution of knowledge. A librarian or a library community, in
addition, has to spend scarce resources on each purchased book, and their decision to buy an
academic title, often at the price of 70$, 80$, or more, is a real decision to devote scarce
resources.
Since publishers, with justification, regard global and geographically broken-down sales
figures as a well-guarded secret, available only to the publisher(s) and their author(s), and
since the usual alternative - available bestseller rankings from Internet bookstores - are but a
very unreliable indicator of the development of the global publishing market, and change
frequently over time, we are practically left to work only with this relatively new
methodology. We round up our methodology by the yearly download figures of the respective
articles on the analyzed companies contained in Wikipedia.
Rankings of book publishers
In the past, there were several attempts to rank book publishers by qualitative methods. The
Dutch Research Consortium SENSE
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used five categories. This ranking was based on the
subjective opinion of the scientists working for this important consortium in the field of
environmental studies in the Netherlands:
I refereed book publications:
A: Refereed book publications published by the world top of publishers
B: Refereed book publications published by the world’s semi-top of publishers
C: Refereed book publications published by other publishers
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http://www.sense.nl/organisation/documentation
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II non-refereed book publications
D: published for an academic public (professional publications)
E: mainly published for a non-academic (general) public
Their ranking reached the following conclusion about the global top players in the field of
global academic publishing:
A-publishers (a few top-notch international publishers)
Cambridge University Press
Columbia University Press
Harvard University Press
John’s Hopkins University Press
MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts
Oxford University Press
Princeton University Press
Stanford University Press
University of Chicago Press
Yale University Press
An influential study by the Universidad de Granada
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was based on the Clarivate Analytics
„Book Citation Index“
8
and ranked Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, Cambridge
University Press, Elsevier, Nova Science Publishers, Edward Elgar, Information Age
Publishing, Princeton University Press and University of California Press as the global
leading academic publishers.
The University of Groningen in the Netherlands, one of the world’s 100 top Universities, now
runs a system by which researchers and students from around the world can find complete
informations on the book and journal publishing companies, chosen by the staff of one of the
world’s leading Universities for their scientific publications.
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This complete documentation
system, currently listing more than 233.000 scientific publications, informs us for example
that in view of the list reproduced in Table 1 of this essay, there were 657 Groningen
publications with Routledge, 170 publications with Palgrave, but 2120 publications with
Springer and 48 publications with Nova Science Publishers, the last of the mentioned 13
companies in our Table 1. 5903 publications by the Groningen University researchers took
place in the context of any University Press around the world; and one essay, van der Vliet
(2008), was published with Uchitel, the publishing company of the present journal.
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Torres-Salinas, D., Robinson-García, N., Campanario, J.M. & Delgado López-Cózar, E. (2013). Coverage,
specialization and impact of scientific publishers in the Book Citation Index. Online Information Review, 38(1)
und
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267869924_Bibliometric_Indicators_for_Publishers_Data_processing_
indicators_and_interpretation. See also http://wokinfo.com/products_tools/multidisciplinary/bookcitationindex/
8
http://wokinfo.com/mbl/publishers/
9
https://www.rug.nl/research/portal/publications/search.html
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Methods for the empirical analysis of publisher market power
Now, this essay builds on a bibliometric analysis of 57 major book publishing companies, for
which there are complete available data for both the above-mentioned SENSE Index and the
book-citation related study by Torres-Salinas et al., 2012, 2013, and 2014a, 2014b, referred to
here as the “Granada studies” in bibliometrics (Tausch, 2017).
With the data, now available from OCLC, the author calculated or collected the following
variables in addition to the comprehensive Tausch, 2017 study:
• % of titles with an OCLC Worldcat circulation between 50 and 500 global libraries
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• % of titles with an OCLC Worldcat circulation of less than 50 global libraries
11
• % of titles with an OCLC Worldcat circulation of more than 500 global libraries
12
• book (last 5 years) with the 50th highest OCLC Worldcat circulation rate
13
• book (last 5 years) with the highest OCLC Worldcat circulation rate
14
• continuity of performance – 50th best circulated book compared to the top circulated
book (last 5 years)
15
• OCLC WC number of book titles published in the last 5 years (TE PUNA on
Worldcat)
16
• Recent titles with more than 50 OCLC Worldcat circulation
17
• Recent titles with more than 500 OCLC Worldcat circulation
18
• total number of recent titles (not just books; OCLC First Search)
19
• Wikipedia monthly downloads of articles featuring the company over last year
(English sites only)
20
In view of the importance of the social media and the Internet for company reputation today,
we also included data about Wikipedia monthly downloads of articles featuring the company
10
OCLC First Search, by courtesy of OCLC Company
11
OCLC First Search, by courtesy of OCLC Company
12
OCLC First Search, by courtesy of OCLC Company
13
TE PUNA on Worldcat, available at: https://tepuna.on.worldcat.org/advancedsearch?databaseList=
14
TE PUNA on Worldcat, available at: https://tepuna.on.worldcat.org/advancedsearch?databaseList=
15
Calculated from TE PUNA on Worldcat, available at:
https://tepuna.on.worldcat.org/advancedsearch?databaseList=
16
Calculated from TE PUNA on Worldcat, available at:
https://tepuna.on.worldcat.org/advancedsearch?databaseList=
17
OCLC First Search, by courtesy of OCLC Company
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OCLC First Search, by courtesy of OCLC Company
19
OCLC First Search, by courtesy of OCLC Company
20
http://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-
access&agent=user&range=latest-20&pages=Cat|Dog
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over last year. These data also reflect, as the rest of our indicators, the element of the standing
of a company with the general publics and not just the academic community alone.
The Tausch, 2017 variables, again used in the present study were:
Quantity Indicator - number of books and book chapters in the Clarivate Analytics
(formerly Thomson-Reuters) Book Citation Index 21
Citations of books and book chapters in the Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson-
Reuters) Book Citation Index 22
Harvard Library number of titles (books only) 23
number of references about the company in books – Questia 24
Publishing the results of science
average citations - books and book chapters 25
standard deviation citations books and book chapters 26
Sense Quality Indicator for multivariate analysis 27
Harvard HOLLIS ratio of books checked out per total holdings (books only) 28
21
Torres-Salinas, D., Robinson-García, N., Campanario, J.M. & Delgado López-Cózar, E. (2013). Coverage,
specialization and impact of scientific publishers in the Book Citation Index. Online Information Review, 38(1)
und
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267869924_Bibliometric_Indicators_for_Publishers_Data_processing_
indicators_and_interpretation
22
Torres-Salinas, D., Robinson-García, N., Campanario, J.M. & Delgado López-Cózar, E. (2013). Coverage,
specialization and impact of scientific publishers in the Book Citation Index. Online Information Review, 38(1)
und
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267869924_Bibliometric_Indicators_for_Publishers_Data_processing_
indicators_and_interpretation
23
http://hollis.harvard.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?mode=Advanced&ct=AdvancedSearch&dscnt=0
&dstmp=1444746207332&vid=HVD
24
https://www.Questia.com/
25
Torres-Salinas, D., Robinson-García, N., Campanario, J.M. & Delgado López-Cózar, E. (2013). Coverage,
specialization and impact of scientific publishers in the Book Citation Index. Online Information Review, 38(1)
und
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267869924_Bibliometric_Indicators_for_Publishers_Data_processing_
indicators_and_interpretation
26
Torres-Salinas, D., Robinson-García, N., Campanario, J.M. & Delgado López-Cózar, E. (2013). Coverage,
specialization and impact of scientific publishers in the Book Citation Index. Online Information Review, 38(1)
und
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267869924_Bibliometric_Indicators_for_Publishers_Data_processing_
indicators_and_interpretation
27
http://www.sense.nl/organisation/documentation
28
http://hollis.harvard.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?mode=Advanced&ct=AdvancedSearch&dscnt=0
&dstmp=1444746207332&vid=HVD
16
average citations - books in the Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson-Reuters)
book citation index 29
number of references about the company in scholarly journals – Questia 30
Citations, impact and standing in the academic community
Japanese NACSIS top library outreach (books only) 31
Japanese NACSIS 200th library outreach (books only) 32
Swedish LIBRIS top library outreach 33
Swedish LIBRIS 50th library outreach 34
Market penetration in industrialized Western countries
Items in ECLAS catalogue oft he European Union in Brussels 35
Items in World Bank/IMF JOLIS library catalogue Washington (books only) 36
Attention given to the books by the international decision makers
Items in the IndCat (India) Union catalog 37
Market penetration in developing countries
number of references about the company in magazines – Questia 38
number of references about the company in newspapers – Questia 39
Attention given to the books in the international media
It was expected that all quality and quantity criteria correlate very highly with each other. For
that reason, the author chose the factor analytical model of promax factor analysis (see
Tausch, 2015). The factor analytical results were also used to arrive at a combined index of
publisher market power. This index combines the factor scores for each derived factor,
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Torres-Salinas, D., Robinson-García, N., Campanario, J.M. & Delgado López-Cózar, E. (2013). Coverage,
specialization and impact of scientific publishers in the Book Citation Index. Online Information Review, 38(1)
und
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267869924_Bibliometric_Indicators_for_Publishers_Data_processing_
indicators_and_interpretation
30
https://www.Questia.com/
31
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/books/
32
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/books/
33
http://libris.kb.se/form_extended.jsp?f=ext
34
http://libris.kb.se/form_extended.jsp?f=ext
35
http://ec.europa.eu/eclas/F
36
http://external.worldbankimflib.org/uhtbin/webcat/
37
http://indcat.inflibnet.ac.in/
38
https://www.Questia.com/
39
https://www.Questia.com/
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weighted by the Eigenvalues (see, for an extensive debate about these procedures, Tausch,
2015)
Results
Table 2, Table 3, Table 4, and Table 5 are reprinted here for the specialists, and they should
describe the most important aspects of our factor analytical model of publisher market power
in a globalized world of science.
Table 2: the multivariate promax factor model of publisher market power – variance
explained
Variance
explained
Wikipedia monthly downloads, English, last year
0,643
OCLC WC number of books published in the last 5
years
0,971
book (last 5 years) with the highest global library
circulation rate
0,735
book (last 5 years) with the 50th highest global library
circulation rate
0,958
continuity of performance - top 50 books (last 5 years)
0,807
Quantity Indicator - number of books and book
chapters in the Clarivate Analytics (formerly
Thomson-Reuters) Book Citation Index
0,848
Citations of books and book chapters in the Clarivate
Analytics (formerly Thomson-Reuters) Book Cittation
Index
0,940
average citations - books and book chapters
0,765
standard deviation citations books and book chapters
0,904
Sense Quality Indicator for multivariate analysis
0,665
Harvard Library number of titles (books only)
0,852
Harvard HOLLIS ratio of books checked out per total
holdings (books only)
0,839
average citations - books in the Clarivate Analytics
(formerly Thomson-Reuters) book citation index
0,856
Japanese NACSIS top library outreach (books only)
0,843
Japanese NACSIS 200th library outreach (books only)
0,925
Swedish LIBRIS top library outreach
0,707
Swedish LIBRIS 50th library outreach
0,765
number of references about the company in books -
Questia
0,843
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number of references about the company in scholarly
journals - Questia
0,938
number of references about the company in magazines
- Questia
0,946
number of references about the company in
newspapers - Questia
0,932
Items in ECLAS catalogue Brussels
0,899
Items in World Bank/IMF JOLIS library catalogue
Washington (books only)
0,936
Items in the IndCat (India) Union catalog
0,886
total number of recent titles
0,968
Recent titles with more than 50 circulation
0,978
Recent titles with more than 500 circulation
0,727
% of titles with a circulation of more than 500
0,823
% of titles with a circulation between 50 and 500
0,914
% of titles with a circulation of less than 50
0,969
Table 3: the multivariate promax factor model of publisher market power – cumulative
percentage of total variance explained and Eigenvalues
Eigenvalues
% of
variance
explained
Cumulated
percentage of
variance
explained
overall global standing of the
company
10,156
33,855
33,855
company is a factor on the market
3,471
11,569
45,424
company impact on the global
political and economic debate
3,012
10,041
55,465
successfully distributing best-
sellers
2,570
8,567
64,032
impact on the scholarly community
2,193
7,309
71,341
successfully distributing
production to more than 50
libraries
1,689
5,628
76,970
output during the last 5 years
1,587
5,291
82,261
outstanding academic quality
1,105
3,684
85,945
Table 4: Factor loadings
overall
global
standing of
the
company
company is
a factor on
the market
company
impact on
the global
political
and
economic
debate
successfull
y
distributin
g best-
sellers
impact on
the
scholarly
community
successfull
y
distributin
g
production
to more
than 50
libraries
output
during the
last 5 years
outstandin
g academic
quality
Wikipedia monthly
downloads, English, last
year
0,775
0,284
0,118
0,304
0,312
0,062
-0,067
0,044
OCLC WC number of
books published in the
last 5 years
0,514
0,974
0,262
0,274
0,067
0,233
0,017
0,049
book (last 5 years) with
the highest global library
circulation rate
0,509
0,124
0,010
0,808
0,084
0,297
-0,034
-0,008
book (last 5 years) with
the 50th highest global
library circulation rate
0,459
0,226
0,081
0,969
0,201
0,134
-0,003
0,080
continuity of performance
- top 50 books (last 5
years)
0,352
0,243
0,287
0,863
0,223
0,115
0,072
0,136
Quantity Indicator -
number of books and
book chapters in the
Clarivate Analytics
(formerly Thomson-
0,376
0,873
0,189
0,253
0,049
0,456
0,131
0,093
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Reuters) Book Citation
Index
Citations of books and
book chapters in the
Clarivate Analytics
(formerly Thomson-
Reuters) Book Cittation
Index
0,413
0,942
0,223
0,280
0,182
0,422
0,006
0,111
average citations - books
and book chapters
0,232
0,126
0,181
0,093
0,852
0,027
-0,117
0,208
standard deviation
citations books and book
chapters
0,458
0,214
0,502
0,353
0,845
0,221
-0,074
0,235
Sense Quality Indicator
for multivariate analysis
0,705
0,120
0,066
0,504
0,082
0,370
-0,077
0,038
Harvard Library number
of titles (books only)
0,751
0,777
0,282
0,314
0,102
0,241
-0,085
0,010
Harvard HOLLIS ratio of
books checked out per
total holdings (books
only)
0,064
-0,038
-0,029
0,105
0,233
0,194
-0,025
0,865
average citations - books
in the Clarivate Analytics
(formerly Thomson-
Reuters) book citation
index
0,398
0,130
0,230
0,265
0,910
-0,003
-0,115
-0,043
Japanese NACSIS top
library outreach (books
only)
0,816
0,334
0,271
0,494
0,445
0,181
-0,119
0,400
Japanese NACSIS 200th
library outreach (books
only)
0,941
0,536
0,315
0,489
0,381
0,168
-0,090
0,067
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Swedish LIBRIS top
library outreach
0,809
0,390
0,333
0,509
0,239
0,122
0,021
0,179
Swedish LIBRIS 50th
library outreach
0,716
0,462
0,333
0,715
0,151
0,216
0,134
-0,067
number of references
about the company in
books - Questia
0,886
0,196
0,302
0,426
0,284
0,192
-0,034
-0,035
number of references
about the company in
scholarly journals -
Questia
0,759
0,350
0,795
0,313
0,295
0,114
0,020
0,009
number of references
about the company in
magazines - Questia
0,295
0,232
0,953
0,165
0,317
-0,043
0,004
0,003
number of references
about the company in
newspapers - Questia
0,261
0,761
0,752
0,175
0,139
0,080
0,036
0,046
Items in ECLAS
catalogue Brussels
0,298
0,937
0,208
0,175
0,080
0,214
-0,080
0,045
Items in World Bank/IMF
JOLIS library catalogue
Washington (books only)
0,270
0,207
0,948
0,100
0,306
-0,052
0,015
0,009
Items in the IndCat
(India) Union catalog
0,855
0,556
0,379
0,204
0,257
-0,011
-0,008
0,001
total number of recent
titles
-0,073
-0,008
0,034
0,014
-0,137
-0,077
0,982
-0,093
Recent titles with more
than 50 circulation
-0,036
0,031
0,056
0,042
-0,109
0,025
0,986
-0,074
Recent titles with more
than 500 circulation
0,078
0,046
0,643
0,059
-0,141
0,233
0,219
0,484
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% of titles with a
circulation of more than
500
0,154
0,206
0,185
0,106
-0,153
0,571
-0,281
0,778
% of titles with a
circulation between 50
and 500
0,165
0,338
0,032
0,170
0,057
0,932
0,013
0,221
% of titles with a
circulation of less than 50
-0,188
-0,350
-0,088
-0,177
0,003
-0,965
0,082
-0,442
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Table 5: correlations between the factors of publisher market power
Component
overall
global
standing of
the
company
company is
a factor on
the market
company
impact on
the global
political
and
economic
debate
successfull
y
distributin
g best-
sellers
impact on
the
scholarly
community
successfull
y
distributin
g
production
to more
than 50
libraries
output
during the
last 5 years
outstandin
g academic
quality
overall global standing
of the company
1,000
0,417
0,319
0,493
0,304
0,196
-0,055
0,064
company is a factor on
the market
0,417
1,000
0,295
0,223
0,109
0,251
0,004
0,061
company impact on the
global political and
economic debate
0,319
0,295
1,000
0,160
0,209
0,056
0,063
0,128
successfully
distributing best-sellers
0,493
0,223
0,160
1,000
0,194
0,229
0,036
0,075
impact on the scholarly
community
0,304
0,109
0,209
0,194
1,000
-0,046
-0,105
0,043
successfully
distributing production
to more than 50
libraries
0,196
0,251
0,056
0,229
-0,046
1,000
-0,043
0,328
output during the last 5
years
-0,055
0,004
0,063
0,036
-0,105
-0,043
1,000
-0,088
outstanding academic
quality
0,064
0,061
0,128
0,075
0,043
0,328
-0,088
1,000
Table 6 now lists the final outcome of our study. It is based on the factor analytical results
described above. According to our results, any scholar or journal, publishing with Oxford
University Press, Springer, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, World Bank, Princeton
University Press, Elsevier, CRC Press, University of Chicago Press, and University of
California Press is on the “safe side”, and these companies belong to the global top 20% of
the book publishing industry.
Table 6: the final classification of global publishers’ market power according to our
promax factor analytical model (factors weighted according to their Eigenvalues)
Overall
Quality
Indicator
Rank
precentile
performance
Oxford University Press
45,538
1
1,961
Springer
43,102
2
3,922
Cambridge University Press
38,126
3
5,882
Routledge
33,592
4
7,843
World Bank
24,110
5
9,804
Princeton University Press
23,341
6
11,765
Elsevier
20,351
7
13,725
CRC Press
14,633
8
15,686
University of Chicago Press
14,564
9
17,647
University of California Press
10,678
10
19,608
Palgrave Macmillan
10,546
11
21,569
MIT Press
10,527
12
23,529
Yale University Press
9,289
13
25,490
University of North Carolina
Press
5,686
14
27,451
De Gruyter
5,571
15
29,412
Wiley-Blackwell
4,036
16
31,373
Kluwer Academic Publishers
2,081
17
33,333
University of Pennsylvania
Press
1,751
18
35,294
Johns Hopkins University Press
1,416
19
37,255
Brill
1,396
20
39,216
Nova Science Publishers
0,958
21
41,176
University of Illinois Press
-0,753
22
43,137
Duke University Press
-1,034
23
45,098
University of Washington Press
-2,144
24
47,059
Edward Elgar
-5,559
25
49,020
Rodopi
-5,772
26
50,980
25
Edinburgh University Press
-6,666
27
52,941
Island Press
-7,005
28
54,902
World Scientific and
Engineering
-7,197
29
56,863
IEEE
-7,492
30
58,824
John Benjamins
-7,562
31
60,784
CABI
-7,806
32
62,745
University of New Mexico
Press
-8,674
33
64,706
Ios Press
-8,882
34
66,667
Karger
-9,509
35
68,627
L'Harmattan
-11,850
36
70,588
Earthscan Publications Ltd.
-12,054
37
72,549
Catena Verlag
-12,446
38
74,510
Transaction Publishing
-12,674
39
76,471
Channel View Publications
-12,776
40
78,431
(UCB) University of British
Columbia Press
-12,866
41
80,392
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
-13,277
42
82,353
ASM Press
-13,632
43
84,314
IWA Publishing
-13,722
44
86,275
Woodhead Publishing
-14,552
45
88,235
Equinox
-14,931
46
90,196
Wageningen
-14,961
47
92,157
Resources for the Future
-16,757
48
94,118
Ateneo de Manila University
-17,857
49
96,078
Nottingham University Press
-20,384
50
98,039
WIT Press
-20,495
51
100,000
Conclusions
This article evaluated tendencies and trends of the global academic publishing industry, vital
for any reasonable long-term publication strategy planning in research. Such analyses are
made possible today by the OCLC Worldcat. This combined global library catalogue (union
catalogue) OCLC was founded in America in 1967 and today integrates library collections
ranging from northern Norway to Chile, and from California to Europe and Africa on to the
Asia Pacific Region, including an ever-growing number of libraries in the BRIICS countries.
Comparisons based on the wealth of these data can even be accessed via the freely available
versions of the OCLC "Worldcat", such as “OCLC Classify” or the New Zealand Library
Portal “TE PUNA” (“TE PUNA on World Cat”), or by the full subscription-based “OCLC
First Search” version of the OCLC Worldcat.
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Based on OCLC Worldcat data, recent contributions in the expanding discipline of
scientometry and bibliometrics have started to study the global presence of publications in
global libraries, which are the main buyers of our academic publications in the world today.
Such methods are absolutely necessary to design successful academic strategies to distribute
effectively scientific knowledge in the age of globalization around the globe.
We can estimate from the OCLC data that of the more than 300 million books held in global
libraries, more than 120 million books were published in English, 43 million in German, and
around 31 million in French. Especially German as a scientific language is on the retreat over
the last decades. Of the 20.8 million books published in the last 5 years, 45% were published
in English, and in the field of political science, for example, this share was even 55%. The
concentration of the publication process on a global scale is enormous. In the field of political
science alone, 13 leading publishers with an output of more than 400 political science books
during the last 5 years published none the less than 38% of the 1.7 million English language
political science titles during the last 5 years.
Our basic idea was simple, not to say downright vulgar. Is a book or a book series or a
scientific journal important, it must be surely not only cited internationally, but it must also be
physically or electronically present in as many global libraries as possible, because after all:
what counts, is global and geographicaly diverse readership.
Even high-quality English language books might find it sometimes hard to find an appropriate
library outreach of more than 50 global libraries, especially if the price of a book is high or if
your publisher’s marketing facilities are not so well developed. A flagship Russian language
publication like “Mirovaia ekonomika i mezhdunarodnye otnosheniia”, which was studied in
the days of the Cold War by hundreds of Western security and defense experts to find clues as
to what “the Soviet Enemy” is planning next, only makes it to 125 global libraries. As we
show in our article, there are severe international market constraints even for English
language academic publications, printed at any of the University Presses of the world today:
only 1.93% of the global University Press output of the last 5 years reached more than 500
global libraries.
In our essay, we compare book company global impact figures with results from an earlier
bibliometric study, which already used library presence results from union catalogues with
counting procedures, such as in India, Japan, and Sweden (Tausch, 2017). In our essay, we
combined the available OCLC Worldcat data with results of the Tausch (2017) study, which
also used existing rankings of global academic publishing companies published in the
literature, and data from the newly created Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson-Reuters)
"Book Citation Index". Our new multivariate attempt, combining all these data, is based on
factor analysis of 32 variables, and our promax factor analytical model established that there
are eight factors of global publisher impact, explaining almost 86% of total variance:
1. overall global standing of the company
2. company as a factor on the market
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3. company impact on the global political and economic debate
4. successfully distributing best-sellers
5. impact on the scholarly community
6. successfully distributing production to more than 50 global Worldcat libraries
7. output during the last 5 years
8. outstanding academic quality
Of the 51 companies with complete data under investigation here, the following companies
were classified in the upper half: Oxford University Press; Springer; Cambridge University
Press; Routledge; World Bank; Princeton University Press; Elsevier; CRC Press; University
of Chicago Press; University of California Press; Palgrave Macmillan; MIT Press; Yale
University Press; University of North Carolina Press; De Gruyter; Wiley-Blackwell; Kluwer
Academic Publishers; University of Pennsylvania Press; Johns Hopkins University Press;
Brill; Nova Science Publishers; University of Illinois Press; Duke University Press;
University of Washington Press; and Edward Elgar. Scientists, wanting to get global
audiences, are well advised to publish with those companies; and journal editors, wanting to
get a global distribution for their journals, are equally well advised to cooperate with them.
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Appendix Table 1: Original data used in the multivariate model
Publisher
Wikiped
ia
monthl
y
downlo
ads,
English,
last
year
OCLC
WC
number
of
books
publish
ed in
the last
5 years
book
(last 5
years)
with the
highest
global
library
circulat
ion rate
book
(last 5
years)
with the
50th
highest
global
library
circulat
ion rate
continui
ty of
perfor
mance -
top 50
books
(last 5
years)
Quantit
y
Indicat
or -
number
of
books
and
book
chapter
s in the
Clariva
te
Analyti
cs
(former
ly
Thomso
n-
Reuters
) Book
Citation
Index
Citation
s of
books
and
book
chapter
s in the
Clariva
te
Analyti
cs
(former
ly
Thomso
n-
Reuters
) Book
Cittatio
n Index
average
citation
s -
books
and
book
chapter
s
standar
d
deviatio
n
citation
s books
and
book
chapter
s
Sense
Quality
Indicat
or for
multiva
riate
analysis
Harvar
d
Library
number
of titles
(books
only)
Harvar
d
HOLLI
S ratio
of
books
checked
out per
total
holding
s (books
only)
(UCB) University
of British
Columbia Press
333
127
458
2
0,4
981
475
0,5
1,9
2
844
4,4
Anthem Press
1969
1329
690
51,9
183
16
0,1
0,4
1
300
12,0
ASM Press
42
801
948
291
30,7
20
2
0,1
0,5
2
222
5,9
33
Ateneo de Manila
University
83
251
56
14
25,0
201
23
0,1
0,7
2
304
10,9
Brill
576
44343
917
847
92,4
2503
352
0,1
0,9
3
12598
5,7
CABI
449
2693
304
69
22,7
2235
1148
0,5
2
3
204
2,9
Cambridge
University Press
13393
100622
1086
448
41,3
17743
13597
0,8
7
4
31265
8,3
Catena Verlag
569
149
28
2
7,1
2
5
2,5
3,5
2
27
14,8
Channel View
Publications
124
862
652
124
19,0
14
3
0,2
0,8
2
52
9,6
CRC Press
4312
8523
931
922
99,0
3661
4621
1,3
9,6
3
3669
71,0
De Gruyter
541
75258
1453
1310
90,2
3909
1931
0,5
3,5
2
12928
4,5
Duke University
Press
1769
5293
609
306
50,2
23
4
0,2
0,7
3
3522
10,7
Earthscan
Publications Ltd.
580
1109
492
80
16,3
41
6
0,2
0,7
3
1005
5,4
Edinburgh
University Press
957
9
7
0
0,0
2332
373
0,2
1,1
2
2120
11,4
Edward Elgar
1731
19257
505
125
24,8
13298
4019
0,3
1,6
3
3412
5,5
Elsevier
23156
89020
1098
887
80,8
16622
10071
0,6
7,8
3
11750
2,8
Equinox
66
1166
385
82
21,3
48
26
0,5
2
1
408
9,6
IEEE
695
41857
632
288
45,6
41
3
0,1
0,3
3
281
2,8
Ios Press
363
2478
1436
902
62,8
155
36
0,2
1
2
350
2,6
Island Press
385
2177
1439
802
55,7
16
5
0,3
0,6
3
1050
2,8
IWA Publishing
18
1552
1004
340
33,9
602
240
0,4
1,7
2
50
6,0
John Benjamins
804
6963
1307
856
65,5
86
42
0,5
1,5
2
1623
6,4
Johns Hopkins
University Press
2361
4752
1415
1153
81,5
399
155
0,4
1,3
4
5191
4,1
Karger
404
2437
118
62
52,5
460
183
0,4
1,4
3
3006
1,0
Kluwer Academic
Publishers
67
32501
753
541
71,8
48
107
2,2
6,6
1
6276
3,7
L'Harmattan
355
49148
94
53
56,4
13
0
0,0
0
2
31685
0,4
34
MIT Press
3671
12436
1152
949
82,4
4629
3825
0,8
6,3
4
6417
7,3
Nottingham
University Press
82
4
44
0
0,0
240
32
0,1
0,5
2
30
3,3
Nova Science
Publishers
1794
16574
1075
702
65,3
15727
3953
0,3
1,1
2
1087
4,0
Oxford University
Press
20425
130981
1480
853
57,6
34
33
1,0
4,8
4
55790
5,9
Palgrave
Macmillan
4708
120585
1310
646
49,3
45306
13352
0,3
1,6
3
14615
10,9
Praxis Publishing
Ltd.
911
428
37
8,6
43
5
0,1
0,6
1
577
1,0
Princeton
University Press
4255
22344
1589
968
60,9
6207
11254
1,8
16,8
4
9982
6,3
Resources for the
Future
720
39
67
0
0,0
36
33
0,9
1,9
2
478
0,6
Rodopi
721
4042
874
801
91,6
55
11
0,2
0,9
2
3689
3,8
Routledge
1017
277276
726
667
91,9
27511
11585
0,4
3,7
3
35594
8,3
Royal Society of
Chemistry
3761
1271
711
55,9
826
1311
1,6
13,1
3
267
4,1
Springer
5058
512404
1409
997
70,8
59992
49411
0,8
4,7
3
66365
1,5
Studium Press
80
8
1
12,5
677
119
0,2
0,6
1
1697
1,8
Trans Tech
Publications
8240
1294
878
67,9
22
5
0,2
0,7
2
22
9,1
Transaction
Publishing
1221
1823
368
122
33,2
714
124
0,2
0,7
2
3505
6,1
Universidad
Nacional
Autonoma de
Mexico
4647
163
41
25,2
88
3
0,0
0,3
1
5945
3,5
University of
California Press
3642
8523
1392
922
66,2
6153
4089
0,7
4,6
4
11693
3,7
35
University of
Chicago Press
3752
12261
2362
592
25,1
184
44
0,2
0,9
4
12827
5,6
University of
Illinois Press
1789
3769
1451
979
67,5
2480
794
0,3
1,7
2
6414
3,6
University of New
Mexico Press
306
1718
927
566
61,1
12
0
0,0
0
2
2311
2,6
University of
North Carolina
Press
1310
4024
1354
840
62,0
2646
1981
0,8
3,1
3
4069
4,8
University of
Pennsylvania Press
1019
7690
1299
496
38,2
3697
2755
0,8
3
3
5118
4,8
University of
Washington Press
587
2493
963
808
83,9
661
188
0,3
1,9
2
3342
3,5
Wageningen
81
9915
328
37
11,3
389
139
0,4
1
1
437
1,1
Wiley-Blackwell
5872
24614
599
517
86,3
3407
849
0,3
2,4
4
30925
3,4
Wilfrid Laurier
University Press
255
15
6
0
0,0
496
142
0,3
1,2
2
676
1,3
WIT Press
13
2499
720
88
12,2
335
117
0,4
2,1
2
81
0,0
Woodhead
Publishing
665
5736
892
334
37,4
2998
1018
0,3
2
2
294
1,7
World Bank
66
9299
447
418
93,5
2338
2399
1,0
12,7
2
4368
2,9
World Scientific
and Engineering
1726
20405
1447
1397
96,5
34
12
0,4
0,8
3
2690
6,0
Yale University
Press
3565
13184
2157
807
37,4
15
11
0,7
2,8
4
11119
5,3
36
Appendix Table 2: continutation
Publisher
average
citation
s -
books
in the
Clariva
te
Analyti
cs
(former
ly
Thomso
n-
Reuters
) book
citation
index
Japanes
e
NACSI
S top
library
outreac
h
(books
only)
Japanes
e
NACSI
S 200th
library
outreac
h
(books
only)
Swedish
LIBRIS
top
library
outreac
h
Swedish
LIBRIS
50th
library
outreac
h
number
of
referen
ces
about
the
compan
y in
books -
Questia
number
of
referen
ces
about
the
compan
y in
scholarl
y
journal
s -
Questia
number
of
referen
ces
about
the
compan
y in
magazi
nes -
Questia
number
of
referen
ces
about
the
compan
y in
newspa
pers -
Questia
Items in
ECLAS
catalog
ue
Brussel
s
Items in
World
Bank/I
MF
JOLIS
library
catalog
ue
Washin
gton
(books
only)
Items in
the
IndCat
(India)
Union
catalog
(UCB) University
of British
Columbia Press
3,9
121
1
22
17
1206
171
9
1
0
6
43
Anthem Press
0,8
44
1
23
19
108
18
2
6
27
42
130
ASM Press
2,0
87
5
19
6
26
20
0
0
2
2
462
Ateneo de Manila
University
1,0
37
3
19
0
228
12
15
1345
1
7
5
Brill
1,4
215
28
32
23
8356
853
508
3311
118
99
3913
CABI
3,2
58
7
30
20
324
40
60
116
84
74
172
37
Cambridge
University Press
6,8
415
143
49
32
39523
2875
699
198
2046
1944
75374
Catena Verlag
0,0
20
0
29
1
939
52
16
193
1
0
1
Channel View
Publications
3,0
56
0
30
8
21
3
0
0
0
1
6
CRC Press
6,8
456
29
36
11
800
89
32
27
218
84
6707
De Gruyter
2,9
187
76
46
22
7040
221
26
3
395
49
1879
Duke University
Press
0,0
137
32
31
12
12734
948
153
30
34
71
1264
Earthscan
Publications Ltd.
1,3
80
0
24
7
413
17
8
0
7
95
633
Edinburgh
University Press
1,4
99
24
32
21
4852
111
24
16
43
22
1462
Edward Elgar
2,4
120
51
21
11
2863
278
125
771
1284
1448
3844
Elsevier
8,4
369
79
36
30
6151
422
1359
1733
1109
335
24199
Equinox
4,3
115
2
23
14
2109
128
315
2014
1
1
36
IEEE
0,0
204
21
27
21
1553
263
525
232
48
5
2004
Ios Press
1,4
66
5
30
22
245
9
14
0
89
31
148
Island Press
1,0
53
8
23
20
1369
161
103
51
87
101
182
IWA Publishing
2,9
14
0
20
3
3
1
0
0
22
32
12
John Benjamins
3,5
162
34
25
21
1498
47
6
0
91
1
1562
Johns Hopkins
University Press
2,3
152
40
34
21
19506
607
229
73
130
323
2344
Karger
2,4
92
15
33
14
1025
79
34
174
11
3
2171
Kluwer Academic
Publishers
22,0
162
51
34
19
6872
245
416
122
3047
1352
6508
L'Harmattan
0,0
40
11
20
3
1460
70
2
1
1205
103
0
MIT Press
8,7
297
94
36
23
18155
711
330
63
443
653
5500
Nottingham
University Press
0,8
5
0
28
1
20
2
1
1
3
1
2
38
Nova Science
Publishers
0,6
36
5
23
22
206
16
4
1
17
202
132
Oxford University
Press
11,0
399
155
55
33
50233
3523
1710
894
3358
4817
143670
Palgrave
Macmillan
2,5
172
33
32
20
3632
1076
308
157
1146
1163
2513
Praxis Publishing
Ltd.
1,7
27
1
19
7
11
0
0
0
7
3
16
Princeton
University Press
18,5
219
79
31
22
32770
1007
522
147
266
481
13972
Resources for the
Future
7,0
105
11
17
3
1018
61
74
116
23
83
195
Rodopi
2,3
63
13
23
22
2127
310
20
6
50
0
135
Routledge
4,1
252
106
55
31
35862
2431
862
7616
2420
1906
78188
Royal Society of
Chemistry
15,1
144
9
29
20
92
18
83
238
70
6
1477
Springer
4,2
228
117
40
36
11272
1241
1177
13917
30655
1819
64801
Studium Press
0,2
1
0
46
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
15
Trans Tech
Publications
0,3
32
3
19
15
0
0
1
0
0
0
142
Transaction
Publishing
1,0
56
17
34
13
2373
116
51
13
46
111
309
Universidad
Nacional
Autonoma de
Mexico
0,0
17
2
29
2
709
24
115
14
6
40
47
University of
California Press
6,9
155
63
33
23
31182
1066
412
142
93
137
7332
University of
Chicago Press
2,1
264
76
39
22
36180
1255
433
153
149
344
12653
University of
Illinois Press
3,1
149
31
36
21
13980
781
132
42
6
13
905
39
University of New
Mexico Press
0,0
94
5
22
20
3934
149
37
13
0
2
143
University of
North Carolina
Press
7,1
130
27
36
21
14362
930
113
58
3
14
1092
University of
Pennsylvania Press
5,8
112
24
32
18
11268
482
50
18
12
68
848
University of
Washington Press
2,4
89
22
32
21
5524
253
34
19
23
197
738
Wageningen
1,7
15
0
30
8
558
19
52
127
158
71
59
Wiley-Blackwell
1,9
105
20
38
29
761
230
78
11
39
41
144
Wilfrid Laurier
University Press
2,4
35
1
26
20
21
0
0
0
4
4
31
WIT Press
3,1
20
1
5
1
9
11
0
0
15
9
22
Woodhead
Publishing
2,7
24
1
26
7
17
0
3
2
15
3
237
World Bank
8,6
165
32
34
22
10050
4231
7448
12498
691
16600
19902
World Scientific
and Engineering
2,0
1
0
30
20
4
0
5
0
0
0
0
Yale University
Press
0,0
141
54
32
20
31640
1024
673
412
140
145
6471
40
Appendix Table 3: continuation
Publisher
total
number of
recent
titles
Recent
titles with
more than
50
circulation
Recent
titles with
more than
500
circulation
% of titles
with a
circulation
of more
than 500
% of titles
with a
circulation
between 50
and 500
% of titles
with a
circulation
of less than
50
(UCB) University of British Columbia
Press
132
5
0
0,000
3,788
96,212
Anthem Press
2000
282
97
4,850
9,250
85,900
ASM Press
555
79
27
4,865
9,369
85,766
Ateneo de Manila University
242
2
0
0,000
0,826
99,174
Brill
46977
3965
1072
2,282
6,158
91,560
CABI
2857
160
0
0,000
5,600
94,400
Cambridge University Press
111263
10244
38
0,034
9,173
90,793
Catena Verlag
162
0
0
0,000
0,000
100,000
Channel View Publications
812
83
6
0,739
9,483
89,778
CRC Press
64787
6427
5
0,008
9,912
90,080
De Gruyter
80805
3541
660
0,817
3,565
95,618
Duke University Press
6091
1253
6
0,099
20,473
79,429
Earthscan Publications Ltd.
1261
117
0
0,000
9,278
90,722
Edinburgh University Press
8739
1358
284
3,250
12,290
84,460
Edward Elgar
20276
1259
1
0,005
6,204
93,791
Elsevier
171050
7536
164
0,096
4,310
95,594
Equinox
1367
140
1
0,073
10,168
89,759
IEEE
56003
8212
7
0,012
14,651
85,336
Ios Press
3227
306
155
4,803
4,679
90,518
Island Press
2164
265
90
4,159
8,087
87,754
41
IWA Publishing
1757
164
27
1,537
7,797
90,666
John Benjamins
7488
882
404
5,395
6,384
88,221
Johns Hopkins University Press
4726
1009
255
5,396
15,954
78,650
Karger
4486
165
0
0,000
3,678
96,322
Kluwer Academic Publishers
42480
1395
146
0,344
2,940
96,716
L'Harmattan
51237
141
0
0,000
0,275
99,725
MIT Press
13120
1942
421
3,209
11,593
85,198
Nottingham University Press
6
0
0
0,000
0,000
100,000
Nova Science Publishers
16921
2168
998
5,898
6,914
87,188
Oxford University Press
153901
16876
429
0,279
10,687
89,035
Palgrave Macmillan
118716
16767
85
0,072
14,052
85,876
Praxis Publishing Ltd.
1191
44
0
0,000
3,694
96,306
Princeton University Press
23198
3217
863
3,720
10,147
86,132
Resources for the Future
40
1
0
0,000
2,500
97,500
Rodopi
4242
512
174
4,102
7,968
87,930
Routledge
296550
18376
228
0,077
6,120
93,803
Royal Society of Chemistry
9094
435
164
1,803
2,980
95,217
Springer
573931
44928
423
0,074
7,754
92,172
Studium Press
83
0
0
0,000
0,000
100,000
Trans Tech Publications
6774
819
513
7,573
4,517
87,910
Transaction Publishing
2244
285
0
0,000
12,701
87,299
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de
Mexico
5677
38
0
0,000
0,669
99,331
University of California Press
8941
1758
432
4,832
14,831
80,338
University of Chicago Press
13052
2786
89
0,682
20,663
78,655
University of Illinois Press
5422
1340
467
8,613
16,101
75,286
University of New Mexico Press
1548
462
60
3,876
25,969
70,155
University of North Carolina Press
4132
1067
247
5,978
19,845
74,177
University of Pennsylvania Press
7894
1445
66
0,836
17,469
81,695
University of Washington Press
2612
565
146
5,590
16,041
78,369
42
Wageningen
10592
17
0
0,000
0,160
99,840
Wiley-Blackwell
34596
2640
135
0,390
7,241
92,369
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
1111
242
28
2,520
19,262
78,218
WIT Press
1303
12
0
0,000
0,921
99,079
Woodhead Publishing
4339
643
31
0,714
14,105
85,181
World Bank
13304
695
0
0,000
5,224
94,776
World Scientific
22151
1376
634
2,862
3,350
93,788
Yale University Press
13434
2524
300
2,233
16,555
81,212
