The Nature of Three History Journals

Hérubel, Jean‐Pierre V. M.

doi:10.1300/j105v12n03_04

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“…Other studies in history include one by Herubel, who examined three history journals. Herubel reports the number of foreign citations per journal but not percentages [32]. Herubel and Goedeken report only on the period and subject breakdown of the citations they examined [13].…”

Section: Historymentioning

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Citation Analysis for Collection Development: A Comparative Study of Eight Humanities Fields

Knievel

Kellsey

2005

The Library Quarterly

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This study analyzes 9,131 citations from the 2002 volumes of journals in eight humanities fields: art, classics, history, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, and religion. This study found that citation patterns varied widely among humanities disciplines. Due to these differences, it is important for librarians with humanities collection development responsibilities to consider each field separately when making collection development decisions. The authors investigated the language of sources cited in each field. Foreign language citations continue to be dominated by French and German. This study also confirms that, in most humanities disciplines, monographs remain the dominant format of cited sources, although some fields cited monographs less frequently than expected.

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Section: Historymentioning

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Citation Analysis for Collection Development: A Comparative Study of Eight Humanities Fields

Knievel

Kellsey

2005

The Library Quarterly

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Peritz

Bar‐Ilan

2002

Scientometrics

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Mapping and Bibliometric Analysis ofAmerican Historical ReviewCitations and Its Contribution to the Field of History

Akça

2016

J. Info. Know. Mgmt.

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This paper aims to represent the bibliometric characteristics of the American Historical Review (AHR) in an attempt to highlight the journal's contribution to the field of History as one of the leading journals in Journal Citation Reports (JCR). AHR has the highest impact factor among the other journals in its field, and has been bringing together scholars from all over the world since 1895. Although the field of History is known as localized and non-interdisciplinarity, the present study's findings reveal that AHR has different characteristics compared to traditional contributions to the field of History by other journals. In addition, the results show that approximately three quarters of AHR citations, from 67 different categories, are gathered by articles. This indicates that AHR has an increased degree of convergence with other disciplines. These findings may be interpreted as an indication that traditional historical scholarly communication is increasingly changing toward interdisciplinarity. However, it would be problematic to generalize these findings for all history literature, based on a single journal evaluation. This study suggests that AHR has become increasingly diversified and consequently no longer reflects the main characteristics of the field of History. Future studies of more History journals are needed to validate the results and reveal possible changes in the field.

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The Nature of Three History Journals

Cited by 6 publications

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Citation Analysis for Collection Development: A Comparative Study of Eight Humanities Fields

Citation Analysis for Collection Development: A Comparative Study of Eight Humanities Fields

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Mapping and Bibliometric Analysis ofAmerican Historical ReviewCitations and Its Contribution to the Field of History

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