21st Century Anthropology Scholarship: A Citation Analysis. Issue 3 (3rd July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Seaman, Priscilla; Kaczor, Sue A.
• Is Part Of: Behavioral & social sciences librarian. Volume 36:Issue 3(2017)
• Page Start: 122
• Page End: 135
• Publication Date: 2017-07-03
• Subjects: Anthropology journals -- anthropology literature -- bibliometrics -- books -- citation analysis -- collection development; Social science libraries -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; 026.30005
• DOI: 10.1080/01639269.2017.1771036
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0163-9269

Abstract

Abstract: A 2017 citation study looked at four scholarly anthropology journals in order to evaluate current research trends. This study examined the following journals: Current Anthropology, the American Anthropologist, the American Ethnologist, and the Journal of Anthropological Research . The results showed an average of 89.9 citations per article, which is a large increase over previous studies. The breakdown by the largest two categories showed 48.1% citations to total books, compared to 41.2% for scholarly journals. All other source types of citations comprised only 10.7% of total citations. These results were compared to a 2005 study by William Robinson and Paul Posten of the same four journals from 1999.