The Citation Landscape of Scholarly Literature in LGBT Studies: A Snapshot for Subject Librarians

Abstract

LGBT Studies as an area of scholarship emerged from the gay rights activist movement of the 1960s and 1970s, the field's literature appears to be firmly rooted in the mainstream academic literature rather than in popular publications or community and activist periodicals. However, the field has a very high rate of cross-disciplinary citation and cites particularly heavily from medical journals and books. In addition to illuminating the citation characteristics of LGBT Studies, this paper presents lists of highly cited books and journals that should prove useful for subject librarians supporting LGBT Studies programs.he field of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Studies is relatively new, having entered higher education only in the early 1970s with a small number of course offerings at the University of California at Berkeley, the City College of San Francisco (CCSF), the University of Nebraska, and a few other colleges and universities. The first degree programs were created in the late 1980s at the City University of New York and CCSF.1 Even today, LGBT Studies courses are not ubiquitous on college and university campuses, but the field is entering the academic mainstream, with undergraduate course offerings at many colleges and universities, certificate programs at dozens, degree programs at a few, and an endowed professorship at Harvard University.2 A few programs also have been developed in the United Kingdom and central Europe.3 Furthermore, strong graduate certificate programs at institutions such as Yale University, Indiana University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Michigan have begun producing new scholars whose "home field" is LGBT Studies.4 This is a contrast to previous decades, when crl-285

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