21st Century Anthropology Scholarship: A Citation Analysis

Authors

Priscilla Seaman, University at Albany, State University of New YorkFollow
Sue A. Kaczor, University at Albany, State University of New YorkFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2020

DOI

10.1080/01639269.2017.1771036

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.

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Publisher Acknowledgement

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian on June 2, 2020, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01639269.2017.1771036

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Recommended Citation

Seaman, Priscilla and Kaczor, Sue A., "21st Century Anthropology Scholarship: A Citation Analysis" (2020). University Libraries Faculty Scholarship. 142.
https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/ulib_fac_scholar/142