2009/12/16 by Loet Leydesdorff, Leydesdorff, Loet, Alkım Almila Akdağ Salah +1
Arts and Humanities · Neuroscience · #Aesthetic Perception and Analysis #Art History and Market Analysis #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0912.3098
openalex publication_date 2009/12/16 · openalex created_date 2024/04/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The possibilities of using the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) for journal mapping have not been sufficiently recognized because of the absence of a Journal Citations Report (JCR) for this database. A quasi-JCR for the A&HCI (2008) was constructed from the data contained in the Web-of-Science and is used for the evaluation of two journals as examples: Leonardo and Art Journal. The maps on the basis of the aggregated journal-journal citations within this domain can be compared with maps including references to journals in the Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index. Art journals are cited by (social) science journals more than by other art journals, but these journals draw upon one another in terms of their own references. This cultural impact in terms of being cited is not found when documents with a topic such as "digital humanities" are analyzed. This community of practice functions more as an intellectual organizer than a journal.