Arts and humanities literature: Bibliometric characteristics of contributions by Turkish authors

Abstract

Scholarly communication in arts and humanities differs from that in the sciences. Arts and humanities scholars rely primarily on monographs as a medium 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 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 (an average of three citations per publication). Self-citation ratio was 31%. Two-thirds of the cited publications got cited for the first time within two years of their publications.

A citation analysis of Catalan literary studies (1974–2003): Towards a bibliometrics of humanities studies in minority languages

“…These are the aspects widely gathered and analysed in bibliometric studies of humanities [THOMPSON, 2002;AL, SAHINER, TONTA, 2006;NEDERHOF, 2006], which allows comparisons to be made.…”

“…These values are similar to, but even lower than, those found by previous authors dealing with the humanities (Argentine authors in the A&HCI 5.9%, Turkish authors 17%, history 7%). [MOLTENI, ZULUETA, 2002;LOWE 2003;AL, SAHINER, TONTA 2006]. It seems fairly obvious that Catalan literature follows the habitual parameters in these disciplines insomuch that authors work individually with specific aspects of research rather than collaborating with others.…”

Bibliometric analysis of art exhibit reviews in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index

“…Single author was the typical style for the art exhibit reviews. The single authorship was also prevalent in arts and humanities journal articles written by authors affiliated with Turkish institutions and indexed in A&HCI (Al et al 2006). However, 'techno.seduction' an exhibition of multimedia installation work by forty artists' source was published by seven authors.…”

“…These studies predominantly cover resources indexed in SCIE and SSCI databases. Although not in the main, A&HCI has also been used for bibliometric studies, such as on the international presence of studies on Catalan literature (Ardanuy et al 2010), arts and humanities literatures in a country such as Turki (Al et al 2006), and Spain (DortaGonzález and Ramírez-Sánchez 2014). The mapping on the basis of aggregated citations for journals in A&HCI (Leydesdorff et al 2011) and citation analysis studies in the humanities (Ardanu 2013) are also reported.…”

Development of a methodology for scientometric analysis. application to study worldwide research on hardware architecture and cybernetics

“…To quantify the participation of different authors, many research works calculate the number of authors [e.g. (Abramo et al, 2009;Abrizah et al, 2012;Al et al, 2006;Glanzel, 2002;Hirsch, 2010;Zhou et al, 2007), etc.]. Also frequent number of research centers (Bordons & Barrigon, 1992;Montoya et al, 2014;Rojas-Sola & Jorda-Albinana, 2009a;Rojas-Sola & San-Antonio-Gomez, 2010b;Rosas et al, 2011;Voracek & Loibl, 2009) and / or number of countries participating in each article (Chen et al, 2007;Katz & Hicks, 1997;Keiser & Utzinger, 2005;Uzun, 2004).…”