Historical Bibliometrics Using Google Scholar: The Case of Roman Law, 1727–2016

Janne Pölönen; Björn Hammarfelt

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Historical Bibliometrics Using Google Scholar: The Case of Roman Law, 1727–2016

Janne Pölönen

Björn Hammarfelt

| 03 jul 2020

Journal of Data and Information Science

Volumen 5 (2020): Edición 3 (August 2020)

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Article Category: Research Paper

Publicado en línea: 03 jul 2020

Páginas: 18 - 32

Recibido: 28 ene 2020

Aceptado: 11 jun 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2020-0024

Palabras clave
Historical bibliometrics, Google Scholar, Roman law

© 2020 Janne Pölönen et al., published by Sciendo

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Average number of publications per year 1725–2016.

Average number of publications per year 1900–2016.

Concentration of publication to authors.

Concentration of citations to publications.

Google Scholar RIS format tags.

Tag	Meaning	Example record
TY	Type of reference (must be the first tag)	TY - CITATION
AU	Author (each author on its own line preceded by the tag)	AU - Sciascia, G
TI	Title	TI - Sinopse de direito romano: com tábuas
PB	Publisher	PB - Oficinas Gráficas de Saraiva
PY	Publication year (YYYY/MM/DD)	PY - 1955///
M1	Number	M1 - Query date: 2017-04-27
M1	Number	M1 - 14 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=4390463247417945507&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en&num=20
N1	Notes	N1 - Cited By (since 1955): 14
LA	Language	LA - Portuguese
ER	End Record	ER -

Number of authors in the GS records for publications 1500–2016.

Language	Authors	Share	Publications per author
English	2,163	17.6 %	1.7
French	6,326	51.4 %	1.6
German	1,241	10.1 %	1.6
Italian	1,185	9.6 %	2.4
Spanish	1,404	11.4 %	1.9
All	12,319	100 %	1.7

GS records for authors 1725–2016.

Period	English	French	German	Italian	Spanish	All
1725–1749	0	1	4	0	0	5
1750–1774	2	5	2	2	0	11
1775–1799	3	11	3	3	2	22
1800–1824	8	21	8	3	4	44
1825–1849	54	220	23	25	32	354
1850–1874	269	1,387	163	147	178	2,144
1875–1899	448	2,236	269	245	314	3,512
1900–1924	124	228	75	65	84	576
1925–1949	142	255	106	93	94	690
1950–1974	242	358	130	148	167	1,045
1975–1999	398	502	187	181	224	1,492
2000–2016	446	961	252	251	283	2,193
No date	27	141	19	22	22	231
Total	2,163	6,326	1,241	1,185	1,404	12,319

GS records for publications with title including words “Roman law” in five languages 1500–2016.

Language	Title words	Number of records	Share
English	roman law	3,783	17.8 %
French	droit romain	9,983	46.9 %
Italian	diritto romano	2,803	13.2 %
Spanish	derecho romano	2,731	12.8 %
German	“römische Recht” “römischen Recht” “römishes Recht” “römischen Rechts”	2,000	9.4 %
All Total		21,300	100 %

Google Scholar publication types.

Record type	English	French	German	Italian	Spanish	All	Average citations per document
Citation^*	45 %	92 %	57 %	72 %	76 %	76 %	7.9
Journal	40 %	3 %	21 %	14 %	7 %	13 %	7.4
Book	11 %	3 %	19 %	12 %	8 %	8 %	28.1
PDF	3 %	1 %	2 %	2 %	6 %	2 %	4.9
HTML	1 %	1 %	1 %	0 %	3 %	1 %	4.5
Other	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	1.0
Total	100 %	100 %	100 %	100 %	100 %	100 %	9.4

Earliest publications in the GS record in each language group.

Language	Authors	Title	Year
French	Brillon, PJ	. . . : contenant par ordre alphabétique les matières bénéficiales, civiles et criminelles, les maximes du droit ecclésiastique, du droit Romain, du droit public, des . . .	1727
German	Telgmann, RF	Rud. Fridr. Telgmanns Einleitung zu der Historie der römischen Rechts-Gelehrsamkeit	1730
English	Cairns, JW; Burrows, A	Slavery and the Roman Law of Evidence in Eighteenth-Century Scotland	1770 (2006)
English	Taylor, J	A Summary of the Roman Law, from the same author's Elements of the Civil Law	1772
Spanish	Posadilla, J A’lvarez; Ibarra, J	. . ., arreglando sus decisiones a’ las leyes y resoluciones ma's modernas que en el dia rigen: obra u’til a todos los que no hayan estudiado el derecho romano . . .	1796
Italian	Ursino, S	Discorso per lo stabilimento ed apertura della cattedra del codice leggi civili col confronto del diritto romano	1833

GS records for publications 1725–2016.

Period	English	French	German	Italian	Spanish	All
1725–1749	0	3	7	0	0	10
1750–1774	4	1	4	0	0	9
1775–1799	3	8	14	0	1	26
1800–1824	3	23	41	0	1	68
1825–1849	8	354	85	5	26	478
1850–1874	32	2,540	116	22	32	2,742
1875–1899	106	5,592	213	148	56	6,115
1900–1924	259	162	218	214	48	901
1925–1949	406	276	168	415	125	1,390
1950–1974	616	414	359	629	301	2,319
1975–1999	928	294	359	613	721	2,915
2000–2016	1,347	300	363	708	1,352	4,070
No date	71	16	53	49	68	257
Total	3,783	9,983	2,000	2,803	2,731	21,300

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Historical Bibliometrics Using Google Scholar: The Case of Roman Law, 1727–2016

Article Category: Research Paper

Publicado en línea: 03 jul 2020

Páginas: 18 - 32

Recibido: 28 ene 2020

Aceptado: 11 jun 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2020-0024

Palabras clave
Historical bibliometrics, Google Scholar, Roman law

© 2020 Janne Pölönen et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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Google Scholar RIS format tags.

Number of authors in the GS records for publications 1500–2016.

GS records for authors 1725–2016.

GS records for publications with title including words “Roman law” in five languages 1500–2016.

Google Scholar publication types.

Earliest publications in the GS record in each language group.

GS records for publications 1725–2016.

Historical Bibliometrics Using Google Scholar: The Case of Roman Law, 1727–2016

Article Category: Research Paper

Publicado en línea: 03 jul 2020

Páginas: 18 - 32

Recibido: 28 ene 2020

Aceptado: 11 jun 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2020-0024

Palabras claveHistorical bibliometrics, Google Scholar, Roman law

© 2020 Janne Pölönen et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Figure 1

Figure 2

Figure 3

Figure 4

Figure 5

Google Scholar RIS format tags.

Number of authors in the GS records for publications 1500–2016.

GS records for authors 1725–2016.

GS records for publications with title including words “Roman law” in five languages 1500–2016.

Google Scholar publication types.

Earliest publications in the GS record in each language group.

GS records for publications 1725–2016.

Palabras clave
Historical bibliometrics, Google Scholar, Roman law