Scandinavian social science in international journals
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Abstract
The publication of articles by Scandinavian authors is analysed using the Social Science Citation Index. An online search in SSCI revealed a stagnation of article production from the Scandinavian countries during the late 1970s. This may be due to an increase of applied research, financed by non-traditional research councils. Economics is the discipline that produces the largest number of articles in non-Scandinavian journals. Sociology is much more oriented to a Scandinavian public. There is also a tendency that Scandinavian journals, even when they are in English, are mainly cited by other Nordic periodicals. These data suggest that measures should be taken to stimulate basic research and international diffusion of Scandinavian social science research.