Reliance on International Data (Publication Activity, Citation Indexes) in Humanities as a Scientific Problem

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Nikolay A. Bogomolov

Doctor of Philology, Head of the Chair of Literary and Art Criticism and Journalism, Professor of the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: nab50@mail.ru

Section: Materials, Documents, Publications

The article deals with specificity of applying scientometrics to the humanities. After studying various databases and turning to a number of cases the author comes to a conclusion that there is strong need to rethink the core principles for recording publishing activities and citation rates in the field (history, philosophy, philology, journalism etc.).

Keywords: the humanities, arts and humanities, citation indexes