Sixty years of citation analysis studies in the humanities (1951–2010)

Wiley - Tập 64 Số 8 - Trang 1751-1755 - 2013
Jordi Ardanuy1
1Departament de Biblioteconomia i Documentació Universitat de Barcelona, Edifici UB‐Sants C/Melcior de Palau, 140 08014 Barcelona Catalonia Spain

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This article provides an overview of studies that have used citation analysis in the field of humanities in the period 1951 to 2010. The work is based on an exhaustive search in databases—particularly those in library and information science—and on citation chaining from papers on citation analysis. The results confirm that use of this technique in the humanities is limited, and although there was some growth in the 1970s and 1980s, it has stagnated in the past 2 decades. Most of the work has been done by research staff, but almost one third involves library staff, and 15% has been done by students. The study also showed that less than one fourth of the works used a citation database such as the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and that 21% of the works were in publications other than library and information science journals. The United States has the greatest output, and English is by far the most frequently used language, and 13.9% of the studies are in other languages.

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