Scholarly book publishers’ ratings and lists in Finland and Spain

Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to compare the lists of publishers in SPI (Spain) and the lists of VIRTA (Finland), in order to determine some of the potential uses of a merged list, such as complementing each other; and, second, to assess the effects of cross-field variability in the SPI rankings on the potential uses identified in the previous objective. Design/methodology/approach VIRTA and SPI lists were matched and...