“…This is caused by the inclusion of bibliographies. For example, "The One Hundred Tenth Critical Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences," published as a special issue of ISIS (Neu, 1985), contained 6,269 references. In our opinion, this huge effect of bibliographies can be considered as a potential source of distortion in the citation patterns in the arts and humanities (although this effect may also occur in the SCI and SSCI).…”