Arts and Humanities Literature: Bibliometric Characteristics of Contributions by Turkish Authors

Al, Umut and Şahiner, Mustafa and Tonta, Yaşar Arts and Humanities Literature: Bibliometric Characteristics of Contributions by Turkish Authors. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2006, vol. 57, n. 8, pp. 1011-1022. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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Scholarly communication in arts and humanities differs from that in the sciences. Arts and humanities scholars rely primarily on monographs as amedium 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 (anaverage 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.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: arts & humanities literature, bibliometrics, Turkish authors
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
Depositing user: prof. yasar tonta
Date deposited: 09 May 2007
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:07
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/9440

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