.: Mathias, the Database of Hungarian social science citations

Abstract

Assessing and rating citations has become one of the most important indicators of scientific achievements. For English-speaking (and -writing) researchers this issue is mainly solved by huge databases that contain citations of electronic versions of articles. Hungarian databases are, however, not available due to the lack of digital journals. Thus it is hard to find citations for those who work in Hungary-specific areas, such as history and social sciences. As there is no common solution for all kinds of disciplines, related work started with smaller projects. One of them, Mathias, the Database of Hungarian social science citations has been organised by the HCSO Library. The database contains citations of Hungarian authors from four journals and is planned to be expanded to more source periodicals. As of September 2013, Mathias contains more than 15 000 citations.