Abstract
A scientometric analysis of social science research is tried by using the machine-readable files of the IBSS 1981-1985, which is one of the comprehensive international bibliographies in social sciences including cultural anthropology, economics, political science and sociology. Data used are 40,313 monograph records in the IBSSfile. First, we try to compare the number of scholarly monographs published by each country. As a result, it is shown that a large portion of monographs was published by only a small portion of countries. Second, we examine the correlation among the number of published mono- graphs, GDP and socio-demographic factors such as population and the number of people attaining the education level provided at university. A regression model that incorporates GDP as explanatory variable explains well the variation of the number of monographs by countries (R^2=0.769).
