The authors of this recently-published article investigated methods of evaluating scholarly books, using the field of journalism as a case study.
Neville, T.N. & Henry, D. B. (2014). Evaluating scholarly book publishers: A case study in the field of journalism. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 40, 379-387. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2014.05.005.
For example:
Rank | Publisher | # Titles | # Catalog inclusion (CI) | Catalog inclusion rate (CIR) | Relative catalog inclusion rate (RCIR) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | University of California Press | 1 | 93 | 93 | 1.81 |
2 | Indiana University Press | 1 | 84 | 84 | 1.64 |
3 | University of Chicago Press | 4 | 323 | 80.8 | 1.57 |
4 | New York University Press | 1 | 79 | 79 | 1.54 |
5 | Verso Books | 1 | 78 | 78 | 1.52 |
6 | University of North Carolina Press | 2 | 155 | 77.5 | 1.51 |
7 | Louisiana State University Press | 3 | 228 | 76 | 1.48 |
7 | University of Missouri Press | 2 | 152 | 76 | 1.48 |
9 | University of Illinois Press | 7 | 526 | 75.1 | 1.46 |
9 | Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Incorporated | 1 | 75 | 75 | 1.46 |
11 | Princeton University Press | 1 | 73 | 73 | 1.42 |
12 | Counterpoint Press | 1 | 72 | 72 | 1.40 |
12 | Rutgers University Press | 1 | 72 | 72 | 1.40 |
12 | Stanford University Press | 1 | 72 | 72 | 1.40 |
15 | University of Minnesota Press | 1 | 69 | 69 | 1.34 |
16 | I B Tauris & Company Limited | 4 | 274 | 68.5 | 1.33 |
17 | University of Texas Press | 1 | 68 | 68 | 1.32 |
18 | Praeger Publishers | 1 | 66 | 66 | 1.29 |
19 | Ithaca Press | 2 | 130 | 65 | 1.27 |
19 | LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC | 1 | 65 | 65 | 1.27 |
19 | McGill-Queen's University Press | 1 | 65 | 65 | 1.27 |
22 | Intellect Limited | 5 | 311 | 62.2 | 1.21 |
22 | Michigan State University Press | 1 | 62 | 62 | 1.21 |
22 | Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Incorporated | 1 | 62 | 62 | 1.21 |
25 | Taylor & Francis Group | 1 | 60 | 60 | 1.17 |
Method as described in Torres-Salinas and Moed (2009).