Book editors in the social sciences and humanities: an analysis of publication and collaboration patterns of established researchers in Flanders- Additional information

Book editors in the social sciences and humanities play an important role in their fields but little is known about their typical publication and collaboration patterns. To partially fill this gap, we compare Flemish editors and other researchers, in terms of career stage, productivity, publication types, publications with domestic and international collaboration as well as the number of (international or all) unique co-authors, co-editors and associated book chapter authors. The results show that editors are most established researchers, especially in the social sciences, produce more book chapters and monographs than do other researchers and are more productive. Nevertheless, editors collaborate less than do other researchers, both in terms of publications and in number of co-authors. Including book chapter authors in the editors' collaboration networks makes those networks substantially larger, demonstrating that editors do not mainly call upon authors from their existing collaboration network when choosing book chapter authors in the edited books. Finally, editors seem to co-author with their book chapter authors slightly more often after the publication of the edited book than before.

The article “Book editors in the social sciences and humanities: an analysis of publication and collaboration patterns of established researchers in Flanders” is published in Learned Publishing in 2015. Due to the limited space in and the readership of the journal, the authors of the article decided to make additional material available through this document, published on Figshare. This document contains information on individual disciplines. In order to keep the analysis of the individual disciplines robust, only disciplines with at least 30 established editors are discussed in detail: History; Law; Linguistics; Literature; Philosophy (including History of Ideas); Theology (including Religious Studies) (see table 5) - all Humanities disciplines. In addition, this document compares the different groups under study using three statistical measures: Cramer’s V, The Mann-Whitney U test and the Wilcoxon signed-rank test.