When all scientific journal Editors are strongly competing by development sophisticated evaluation systems, it is rather surprising that there is no evaluation system for scientific books, often with more important input to science that single publications in journals. It is surprising even more, if we become aware of the fact that all publications in the journal issue have the same impact factor, independently of their individual value. Do you have any idea for the reason?
Actually such a system has been created. Book chapters are also indexed: look at http://thomsonreuters.com/book-citation-index/
@Andrzej, it is a good question! @Tiia Vissak, I have seen the document BOOK CITATION INDEX IN WEB OF SCIENCE, and for me, this 3-4 pages do not give enough explanation. Link to the document is attached. I am thinking about some nice remarks that @ Maxim noted. We shall stay in touch!
http://thomsonreuters.com/products/ip-science/04_047/bci-fact-sheet.pdf
A side comment to the question: Google Scholar does offer statistics on book citations.
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