Scientometrics
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Volume 86: Issue 3
Interdisciplinarity and the intellectual base of literature studies: citation analysis of highly cited monographs
Author:
Björn Hammarfelt Department of ALM (Archives, Libraries & Museums), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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Pages:
705–725
Online Publication Date:
09 Nov 2010
Publication Date:
01 Mar 2011
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0314-5
Keywords:
Citation analysis; Humanities; Interdisciplinarity; Intellectual structure; Literature studies
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Abstract

This article studies interdisciplinarity and the intellectual base of 34 literature journals using citation data from Web of Science. Data from two time periods, 1978–1987 and 1998–2007 were compared to reveal changes in the interdisciplinary citing of monographs. The study extends the analysis to non-source publications; using the classification of monographs to show changes in the intellectual base. There is support for increased interdisciplinary citing of sources, especially to the social sciences, and changes in the intellectual base reflect this. The results are explained using theories on the intellectual and social organization of scientific fields and the use of bibliometric methods on the humanities is discussed. The article demonstrates how citation analysis can provide insights into the communication patterns and intellectual structure of scholarly fields in the arts and humanities.

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