Bibliometrics for Arts & Humanities

[Lokman I. Meho]

Alec,

The following article will be published in the November 2007 issue of JASIST.

Meho, L. I., & Yang, K. (in press). "Impact of Data Sources on Citation 
Counts and Rankings of LIS Faculty: Web of Science vs. Scopus and 
Google Scholar." Journal of the American Society for Information 
Science and Technology.

Lokman

Lokman I. Meho, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University
1320 East 10th Street, LI 011
Bloomington, IN 47405-3907
Tel: (812) 856-2323
Fax: (812) 855-6166
E-mail: meho at indiana.edu
http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/meho/


Quoting "Chiner Arias, Alejandro" <A.Chiner-Arias at WARWICK.AC.UK>:

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> 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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> -----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
>
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> 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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> 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
>
> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe):
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> 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
>
>
>