Maps on the basis of the Arts & Humanities Citation Index: The journals Leonardo and Art Journal versus "digital humanities" as a topic

The possibilities of using the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) for journal mapping have not been sufficiently recognized because of the absence of a Journal Citations Report (JCR) for this database. A quasi‐JCR for the A&HCI (2008) was constructed from the data contained in the...

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Published in:	Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2010-04, Vol.61 (4), p.787-801
Main Authors:	Leydesdorff, Loet, Salah, Alkim Almila Akdag
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Bibliometrics Bibliometrics. Scientometrics Bibliometrics. Scientometrics. Evaluation Citation analysis Citation indexes Communities of Practice Comparative analysis Digital humanities Exact sciences and technology Information and communication sciences Information science Information science. Documentation Library and information science. General aspects Mapping Periodicals Scholarly publishing Sciences and techniques of general use Social sciences Studies Topics
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Summary:	The possibilities of using the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) for journal mapping have not been sufficiently recognized because of the absence of a Journal Citations Report (JCR) for this database. A quasi‐JCR for the A&HCI (2008) was constructed from the data contained in the Web of Science and is used for the evaluation of two journals as examples: Leonardo and Art Journal. The maps on the basis of the aggregated journal–journal citations within this domain can be compared with maps including references to journals in the Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index. Art journals are cited by (social) science journals more than by other art journals, but these journals draw upon one another in terms of their own references. This cultural impact in terms of being cited is not found when documents with a topic such as “digital humanities” are analyzed. This community of practice functions more as an intellectual organizer than a journal.
ISSN:	1532-2882 2330-1635 1532-2890