Bibliometrics for Arts & Humanities

[Pikas, Christina K.]

This is most definitely not in my area of expertise, but I would think
that books are more important to this crowd than peer reviewed articles
so you'd have to look at citations to books.  Amazon and I think Google
books do this -- but I don't know of a tool to extract and analyze that
info.



Christina K. Pikas, MLS 
R.E. Gibson Library & Information Center
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory 
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-----Original Message-----
From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics
[mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] On Behalf Of Chiner Arias,
Alejandro
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 6:51 AM
To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu
Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Bibliometrics for Arts & Humanities


Having failed to find a bibliometric tool for Arts & Humanities, I am
asking to this list in the hope somebody here will know something
similar to Journal Citation Reports.
 
I am aware of the Arts & Humanities Citation Index as a bibliographic
database, but the JCR only use Science and Social Sciences data from the
respective Thompson ISI bibliographic databases.

My second question is about ranking of cited academics.  Again the ISI
Higly Cited database applies only to Science and some of the Social
Sciences.  Is there something similar for the Humanities?
http://isihighlycited.com/

Many thanks for any leads.  I am aware of the software below thanks to
that posting.  

Alec
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-----Original Message-----
From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics
[mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] On Behalf Of Howard White
Sent: 12 September 2007 21:26
To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu
Subject: [SIGMETRICS] New Version of Publish or Perish

Dear Members,

Anne-Wil Harzing of University of Melbourne has asked me to announce on
this list that Version 2.3 of her Publish or Perish software has been
released.  As many of you know, PoP is an interface to Google Scholar
that radically simplifies the gathering of citation data from the Web.
For author analysis it provides:



*	Total number of papers
*	Total number of citations
*	Average number of citations per paper
*	Average number of citations per author
*	Average number of papers per author
*	Average number of citations per year
*	Hirsch's h-index and related parameters
*	Egghe's g-index
*	The contemporary h-index
*	The age-weighted citation rate
*	Two variations of individual h-indices
*	An analysis of the number of authors per paper.

It also has modules for analyzing contributors to a journal and 
contributors to a subject literature as defined by the user.  

Several papers discussing its features are downloadable as well.
For details, go to:
 
http://www.harzing.com/resources.htm#/pop.htm

Howard D. White