Linda,
Every so often the School of Architecture and the Departments of Art 
History and the Visual & Dramatic Arts will ask me for a basic citation 
report for a faculty members tenure file. With the report I include a 
statement describing the limitations of the Arts & Humanities Citation 
Index. The Science Citation Index may be (or may not be) satisfactory 
for the science citations, but it is definitely not true of the AHCI. 
However, the AHCI is the only service which offers citation analysis for 
art history. I have not found a lot of duplication between the AHCI and 
the SSCI. To be on the safe side I search both, especially for faculty 
whose work is interdisciplinary. As far as addressing the overlap issue, 
have you compared the list of journals in the art history versus those 
in the social sciences that are covered by the citation indexes? Those 
lists are available on the database website - just awful to find. 
Recently JSTOR added a search option of "citation locator" but as far as 
I can tell, the search results display the primary author, not secondary 
works that cite the faculty author for whom I am trying to find 
citations of his/her works. I now include any citations I am able to 
find using Google and Google Scholar, but this is painstaking because 
the results are often incorrect and acknowledgments occurring in the 
secondary author's works have to be excluded.

Statement submitted with a citation report :
Please be advised of the limitations of Arts & Humanities Citation 
Index, the only service which offers citation analysis for the 
discipline of art history.

The AHCI indexes only 74 art and art history journals as of March 2011. 
This is in sharp contrast to the three major indexes/abstracts for art 
history: Art Abstracts, 1982-present (653 serial publications including 
selected journals for architecture, landscape architecture, archaeology, 
film, and photography; selected museum bulletins); Bibliography of the 
History of Art, 1975-2007 (1,200 journals, and detailed coverage of 
monographs, essay collections, conference proceedings and exhibition 
catalogs ); International Bibliography of Art 2008- present (500 core 
journals, plus detailed coverage of monographs, essay collections, 
conference proceedings and exhibition catalogs).

Jet Prendeville, Art/Architecture Librarian
Fondren Library, Rice University
Houston, TX
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On 9/27/2012 12:18 PM, Tietjen, Linda wrote:
>
> Our library considers, on a yearly basis, a subscription to /Arts & 
> Humanities Citation Index/, as we DO subscribe to /Science Citation 
> Index/ and /Social Sciences Citation Index/ and some of their 
> accompanying backfiles. Every time subscription to /A & H Citation 
> Index/ comes up for a vote by our electronic resources committee, 
> however, someone on the committee says that “almost all the material 
> in /A & H Citation Index/ is covered in the /Social Sciences Citation 
> Index/.” And it seems like there is a lot of overlap…
>
> We are a library serving three institutions of higher education: a 
> community college and two universities, including the University of 
> Colorado Denver, each of which has a robust art, art history, and 
> graphics design program. In addition, the University of Colorado 
> Denver’s College of Architecture and Planning offers degrees from the 
> bachelors through the doctorate level.
>
> Does anyone have any information or opinions about why a library 
> supporting various art programs should seriously consider subscribing 
> to all THREE parts of the “Web of Knowledge,” and not just rely on the 
> /Social Sciences Citation Index/ to “cover” the Arts and Humanities, 
> particularly the Arts? BTW, I am not able to attend the yearly voting 
> meetings to pitch /A & H Citation Index/ in person, though I can and 
> do submit written justifications along with my yearly request. I just 
> haven’t been able to overcome that “overlap” objection.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts on the matter.
>
> Linda
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> Ellen Chapman
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> Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] citation tracking databases for humanities
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> Arts & Humanities Citation Index is the granddaddy.
>
> http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/science_products/a-z/arts_humanities_citation_index 
> <http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/science_products/a-z/arts_humanities_citation_index/>
>
> (Companions: Science Citation Index; Social Sciences Citation Index).
>
> Ellen Chapman
>
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Jessica Evans Brady wrote:
>
> > One of the faculty in our art history department is interested
>
> > tracking citations of her work. Aside from Web of Science and Google
>
> > Scholar, is anyone aware of other databases (especially any stronger
>
> > in humanities
>
> > coverage) which offer this functionality?
>
> >
>
> > Thanks!
>
> > Jessica
>
> >
>
> > Jessica Evans Brady
>
> > Visual & Performing Arts Librarian
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> > Strozier Library
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