Arts & Humanities Citation Index (via Web of Science)
Latest screenshot: 2023-01-18
Access to search interface:
paywalled
Last major interface update:
2021-07-08
Owner of search system:
Clarivate
Location of system headquarters:
London, UK
Year of launch:
N/A
Type:
Aggregators' database
URL:
N/A
X-Handle:
Description of database (by system owner)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index contains over 1,800 journals across 28 arts & humanities disciplines. More than 4.9 million records and 33.4 million cited references date back from 1975 to present.
Description of search system (by system owner)
The Web of Science™ is the world’s most trusted publisher-independent global citation database. Guided by the legacy of Dr Eugene Garfield, inventor of the world’s first citation index, the Web of Science is the most powerful research engine, delivering your library with best-in-class publication and citation data for confident discovery, access and assessment. Our multidisciplinary platform connects regional, specialty, data and patent indexes to the Web of Science Core Collection™.
Total coverage:
5.30M
Year-over-year growth (2020-2021):
-9.71%
Subject coverage:
Arts and Humanities (73.69 %); Social Sciences (23.55 %); Medicine (0.63 %)
Retrospective coverage:
1974–2022
Record types:
33
Open Access records:
191.77K / 3.62%
Search functionality and interface
Systematic keyword searching:
extensive
Backward citation searching:
extensive
Forward citation searching:
extensive
Query builder:
Search history:
Match preview:
Sorting options:
19
Query
Latency with short query:
0.8 seconds
Latency with long query:
0.8 seconds
Controlled vocabulary:
Field codes:
35
Full text search:
Search string length (narrow):
9000 terms max.
Search string length (wide):
50 terms max.
Language support: Chinese:
Language support: Cyrillic:
Truncation:
Wildcards:
Keyword position irrelevant:
Longer strings, fewer hits:
Automatic query expansion (stemming):
Verbatim queries:
Reproducible queries (time):
Reproducible queries (locations):
Operators
Search operators:
5
Boolean 'OR':
Boolean 'AND':
Boolean 'NOT':
Proximity operator:
Boolean works exact:
Nested search (parentheses):
Citation search / filtering
Record type filters:
33
Results filters:
23
Suggested related records:
Supported by bibliometric tools:
Bibliometrix; CiteSpace; VOSviewer
Backward citation information:
Backward citation score:
98.31%
Forward citation information:
Forward citation score:
40.02%
Retrieval
Number of accessible records:
10000
Bulk select records:
Bulk export records:
5000
Export formats:
10
API:
upon request
Bulk select records' backward citations:
Bulk export backward citations:
1000
Bulk select records' forward citations:
Bulk export forward citations:
1000
