Al U, Sahiner M, Tonta Y "Arts and humanities literature: Bibliometric characteristics of contributions by Turkish authors" JASIST 57(8):1011-1022, June 2006.

[Eugene Garfield]

E-mail Addresses:
Umut Al         : umutal at hacettepe.edu.tr
Mustafa Sahiner : msahiner at hacettepe.edu.tr
Yasar Tonta     : tonta at hacettepe.edu.tr

Title: Arts and humanities literature: Bibliometric characteristics of
contributions by Turkish authors

Author(s): Al U, Sahiner M, Tonta Y

Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY 57 (8): 1011-1022 JUN 2006

Document Type: Article
Language: English
Cited References: 53      Times Cited: 0

Abstract:
Scholarly communication in arts and humanities differs from that in the
sciences. Arts and humanities scholars rely primarily on monographs as a
medium of publication whereas scientists consider articles that appear in
scholarly journals as the single most important publication outlet. The
number of journal citation studies in arts and humanities is therefore
limited. In this article, we investigate the bibliometric characteristics
of 507 arts and humanities journal articles written by authors affiliated
with Turkish institutions and indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation
Index (A&HCI) between the years 1975-2003. Journal articles constituted
more than 60% of all publications. One third of all contributions were
published during the last 4 years (1999-2003) and appeared in 16 different
journals. An overwhelming majority of contributions (91%) were written in
English, and 83% of them had single authorship. Researchers based at
Turkish universities produced 90% of all publications. Two thirds of
references in publications were to monographs. The median age of all
references was 12 years. Eighty percent of publications authored by Turkish
arts and humanities scholars were not cited at all while the remaining 20%
(or 99 publications) were cited 304 times (an average of three citations
per publication). Self-citation ratio was 31%. Two thirds of the cited
publications were cited for the first time within 2 years of their
publications.


Addresses: Al U (reprint author), Hacettepe Univ, Dept Informat Management,
Ankara, TR-06532 Turkey
Hacettepe Univ, Dept Informat Management, Ankara, TR-06532 Turkey
Hacettepe Univ, Dept English Language & Literature, Ankara, TR-06532 Turkey
Hacettepe Univ, Dept Informat Management, Ankara, TR-06532 Turkey

E-mail Addresses: umutal at hacettepe.edu.tr, msahiner at hacettepe.edu.tr,
tonta at hacettepe.edu.tr

Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA
Subject Category: COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION
SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE
IDS Number: 049GW
ISSN: 1532-2882

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