Abstract

Since the cliometric revolution, the future of economic history has been discussed in relation to its supposedly increasing integration with economics and other disciplines. Any well-grounded argument in this regard would require a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the scientific production of economic historians in recent decades. This article provides a systematic method for collecting and analyzing the scientific production—in the form of indexed articles—of a broad and representative sample of authors who identify themselves as economic historians. From this sample, we have built EconHist, a relational database that contains the bibliometric information provided by Scopus, and the biographical information from authors’ curricula vitae between 1980 and 2019. Finally, we show the opportunities and difficulties related to the design and development of such a database.

摘要

自测温革命以来，人们一直在讨论经济史的未来，即经济史与经济学和其他学科的日益融合。在这方面任何有充分根据的论点都需要对近几十年来经济史学家的科学产出进行定量和定性分析。本文提供了一种系统的方法，用于收集和分析自称为经济史学家的广泛且具有代表性的作者样本的科学成果（以索引文章的形式）。从这个样本中，我们构建了 EconHist，这是一个关系数据库，其中包含 Scopus 提供的文献计量信息，以及 1980 年至 2019 年间作者简历中的传记信息。最后，