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A Guide to the Arts & Humanities Citation Index

What is the Arts & Humanities Citation Index?

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What is the Arts & Humanities Citation Index?

The ISI^® Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI^®) provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information and  cited references found in over 1,120 of the world’s leading arts & humanities journals. They also cover individually selected, relevant items from approximately 7,000 of the world’s leading science and social sciences journals.

Starting with an older article on a topic of interest, users can identify more recent works that cite that original work in their bibliographies or footnotes.  The rationale behind this concept is that articles citing an older article will be on a similar topic.  It also assists the researcher to identify interconnections among several disciplines, locate updated research, and find retractions and corrections. This type of searching often locates relevant articles that cannot be retrieved through traditional subject-author searching.

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