Bibliometrics for Arts & Humanities

[Chiner Arias, Alejandro]

Thank you very much for all the helpful replies being sent.  I wonder
why no-one so far has mentioned Scopus.com.

I had a quick play with Scopus yesterday and it retrieved 93,934 "Arts &
Humanities" references, each with their "Cited by" count. When I
included the "multidisciplinary" references the number of articles
retrieved was 394,058..!

Scopus now has a Citation Tracker similar to the Citation Reports
facility on ISI Web of Knowledge.  WoK is of course the search interface
for the Arts & Humanities Citation Index by Thompson ISI.

It is hard to compare the usefulness of the two products as bibliometric
tools.  Scopus has a relatively limited coverage of Arts & Humanities,
but there is always going to be a limit to the coverage of any tool.

May I request from the list some opinions on how these two products
compare, Scopus and WoK when trying to stretch them for bibliometrics?

Alec
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Alejandro Chiner, Service Innovation Officer, 
University of Warwick Library Research & Innovation Unit, 
Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom. Tel: +(44/0) 24 765
23251, Fax: +(44/0) 24 765 24211, 
a.chiner-arias at warwick.ac.uk http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/riu 
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-----Original Message-----
From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics on behalf of Chiner
Arias, Alejandro
Sent: Tue 9/18/2007 5:51 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
___________________________________
Alejandro Chiner, Service Innovation Officer,
University of Warwick Library Research & Innovation Unit,
Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom. Tel: +(44/0) 24 765
23251, Fax: +(44/0) 24 765 24211,
a.chiner-arias at warwick.ac.uk http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/riu
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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