A Study on Performance and Characteristics of International Art Papers in 1998-2013 - Based on SSCI and AHCI

摘要

This paper studies the basic performance and characteristics of the papers on arts with the methodology of bibliometrics, taking the art papers from SSCI and A&HCI of Web of Science in 1998-2013 as samples. The study shows that, from the perspective of metrics, art papers in SSCI and A&HCI are stable in terms of publication volume, with a trend of decreasing slightly, from 1998 to 2003; the papers are diversified in types, with a lower percentage of articles and higher percentage of reviews; the papers of art and other disciplines are integrated to a certain extent, yet not highly integrated; relatively speaking, art papers published in China is less influential compared with those in America, England and France, but from the viewpoint of time period they are also increasing their impact in recent 10 years.