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Zitatdatenbanken bilden die Datengrundlagen für zahlreiche szientometrische Untersuchungen, Evaluationen wissenschaftlicher Leistungen und Uni-Rankings. In der Literatur finden sich kaum Hinweise auf endogene Fehler (Original richtig, Datenbankeintrag falsch) in den kostenpflichtigen Datenbanken. Banale Fehler (z. B. Falschschreibung der Namen von Autorinnen oder Autoren) in Datenbanken hätten nur geringe Relevanz. Die Fehlersuche zu Pierre Bourdieu als „cited author" im SSCI (Vergleich Original – SSCI-Record) ergab mehr als 85 Mutationen. Die Fallstudien zeigen eine hohe Anzahl endogener Datenbankfehler. In den Rechtswissenschaften übliche Referenzen in Fußnoten laufen große Gefahr, in Phantomreferenzen verwandelt zu werden (Fallstudie Harvard Law Review: 99 Prozent Fehler). Dem Anspruch des SSCI, die „relevanten" globalen Sozialwissenschaften abzubilden – für alle im SSCI erfassten Disziplinen –, stehen offenbar Mängel in Datenerfassung und -verarbeitung im Wege. Citation indexes provide the data for many scientometric studies', evaluations of scientific advancements and university rankings. In the literature, there are hardly any indications of endogenous errors (i.e. original references are correct, data base entry contains errors or is faulty) in the licensed databases. Trivial mistakes (e.g. misspelling of author names) in databases are counted of little relevance. Debugging Pierre Bourdieu as a cited author in the SSCI revealed more than 85 mutations. The case studies show a high number of endogenous database errors. Footnotes, common in jurisprudence, run the risk of being turned into phantom references as was the case for an article in Harvard Law Review case study: 99 % of error rate. The claim of SSCI to map the "relevant" global social sciences – for all disciplines covered in the SSCI – appears to be hampered by deficiencies in data collection and processing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the OSCOSS research project on "Opening Scholarly Communication in the Social Sciences" is to build a coherent collaboration environment that facilitates scholarly communication workflows of social scientists in the roles of authors, reviewers, editors and readers. This paper presents the implementation of the core of this environment: the integration of the Fidus Writer academic word processor with the Open Journal Systems (OJS) submission and review management system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research infrastructures will be of high importance in the humanities and social sciences, as it is already the case in the natural sciences. Using the example of CLARIN, the technical implementation of an infrastructure project and the interaction with the user community will be demonstrated. For a specific use case we show how this infrastructure supports scientific work. Distributed data and tools are used to find, process, and analyse resources and to visualize the results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the OSCOSS research project on "Opening Scholarly Communication in the Social Sciences" is to build a coherent collaboration environment that facilitates scholarly communication workflows of social scientists in the roles of authors, reviewers, editors and readers. This paper presents the implementation of the core of this environment: the integration of the Fidus Writer academic word processor with the Open Journal Systems (OJS) submission and review management system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

US-style televised debates have been introduced to German campaigns in 2002 when Gerhard Schröder and Edmund Stoiber agreed to hold two debates. Since then, debates have become an integral part of campaigns. We argue that these events are highly valued by the participating politicians, the broadcasting media, viewing voters, but also empirical social researchers. We also show how these 'miniature campaigns' can be analyzed using the 2013 debate as an example. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]