The Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), also known as Arts and Humanities Search, is a

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, with abstracting and indexing for more than 1,700 arts and humanities

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s, and coverage of disciplines that includes social and natural science journals. Part of this database is derived from ''

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''. Subjects covered are the arts, humanities, language (including linguistics), poetry, music, classical works, history, oriental studies, philosophy, archaeology, architecture, religion, television, theater, and radio. Coverage includes articles, letters, editorials, meeting abstracts, errata, poems, short stories, plays, music scores, excerpts from books, chronologies, bibliographies and filmographies, as well as citations to reviews of books, films, music, and theatrical performances. This database can be accessed online through

Web of Science The Web of Science (WoS; previously known as Web of Knowledge) is a paid-access platform that provides (typically via the internet) access to multiple databases that provide reference and citation data from academic journals, conference proceedi ...

. It provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information and cited references. It also covers individually selected, relevant items from approximately 1,200 titles, mostly arts and humanities journals but with an unspecified number of titles from other disciplines. As of 2011, the Arts and Humanities Search could be accessed via Dialog, DataStar, and

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, with weekly updates and backfiles to 1980. Description of Arts & Humanities Search. Description of Web of Science coverage. See the page entitled "Tech Specs" Scholar Rainer Enrique Hamel has criticized AHCI for its poor reflection of scientific production in languages other than English. Also, while analyzing solely content in Spanish of 2006, Hamel found that there were more Spanish-language publications from authors based in the United States in the index than from any other Spanish-language country.

History

The index was originally developed by the

Institute for Scientific Information The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) was an academic publishing service, founded by Eugene Garfield in Philadelphia in 1956. ISI offered scientometric and bibliographic database services. Its specialty was citation indexing and analysis, ...

, which was later acquired by Thomson Scientific. It is now published by

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' IP & Science division.

References

External links

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