Using the<i>Arts and Humanities Citation Index</i>to Identify a Community of Interdisciplinary Historians

Hérubel, Jean‐Pierre V. M.; Goedeken, Edward A.

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“…These studies aim to identify social or cognitive communities and (interdisciplinary) relationships between such communities. Some do so by mapping the authors who publish in a particular journal (Buchanan & Herubel, ; Herubel & Goedeken, ), while other studies investigate the interdisciplinary space between established scholarly communities (Ahlgren, Pagin, Persson, & Svedberg, ; Kreuzman, ; Weingart, ). Larivière, Gingras, and Archambault () map relations between institutions through coauthorship to explore the humanities with a more macro‐sociological perspective.…”

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Science and its significant other: Representing the humanities in bibliometric scholarship

Franssen

Wouters

2019

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The cognitive and social structures, and publication practices, of the humanities have been studied bibliometrically for the past 50 years. This article explores the conceptual frameworks, methods, and data sources used in bibliometrics to study the nature of the humanities, and its differences and similarities in comparison with other scientific domains. We give a historical overview of bibliometric scholarship between 1965 and 2018 that studies the humanities empirically and distinguishes between two periods in which the configuration of the bibliometric system differs remarkably. The first period, 1965 to the 1980s, is characterized by bibliometric methods embedded in a sociological theoretical framework, the development and use of the Price Index, and small samples of journal publications from which references are used as data sources. The second period, the 1980s to the present day, is characterized by a new intellectual hinterland—that of science policy and research evaluation—in which bibliometric methods become embedded. Here metadata of publications becomes the primary data source with which publication profiles of humanistic scholarly communities are analyzed. We unpack the differences between these two periods and critically discuss the analytical avenues that different approaches offer.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Science and its significant other: Representing the humanities in bibliometric scholarship

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Wouters

2019

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“…Although AHR is a review journal, its trend in citation databases depends on articles, contrary to what the literature argues. Previous bibliometric studies that evaluated the¯eld of History have claimed that reviews are the document type that historians use most (H erubel, 1991;H erubel and Goedeken, 2001;Dalton and Charnigo, 2004;Blaaiji, 2008;Sinn, 2012;Sinn and Soares, 2014). However, AHR showed di®erent characteristics in the¯eld of History.…”

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“…This decreases researchers' visibility in scienti¯c areas. Alston (1952) focused on historians at the University of Chicago and found that historians use monographs twice as often as journals (H erubel and Goedeken, 2001). In addition, collaboration with other disciplines is limited to History and the Social Sciences (H erubel, 1990;Blaaiji, 2008;Buchanan and H erubel, 2011).…”

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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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“…In an early effort, Hérubel and Goedeken (2001) analyzed the French journal Annales using the A&HI (Arts and Humanities citation Index), and assessing its international reach, despite the preponderant French share of authors, as well as its capacity to rely on a broad array of literature from a variety of fields. Leydesdorff and Salah (2010) analyzed instead two journals in the arts, Leonardo and the Arts Journal, using data from the A&HI and considering their positioning among all A&HI journals.…”

Section: Mapping the Humanitiesmentioning

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The Core Literature of the Historians of Venice

Colavizza

2017

Front. Digit. Humanit.

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Over the past decades, the humanities have been accumulating a growing body of literature at an increasing pace. How does this impact their traditional organization into disciplines and fields of research therein? This article considers history, by examining a citation network among recent monographs on the history of Venice. The resulting network is almost connected, clusters of monographs are identifiable according to specific disciplinary areas (history, history of architecture, and history of arts) or periods of time (middle ages, early modern, and modern history), and a map of the recent trends in the field is sketched. Most notably a set of highly cited works emerges as the core literature of the historians of Venice. This core literature comprises a mix of primary sources, works of reference, and scholarly monographs and is important in keeping the field connected: monographs usually cite a combination of few core and a variety of less well-cited works. Core primary sources and works of reference never age, while core scholarly monographs are replaced at a very slow rate by new ones. The reliance of new publications on the core literature is slowly rising over time, as the field gets increasingly more varied.

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Using theArts and Humanities Citation Indexto Identify a Community of Interdisciplinary Historians

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Science and its significant other: Representing the humanities in bibliometric scholarship

Science and its significant other: Representing the humanities in bibliometric scholarship

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

The Core Literature of the Historians of Venice

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