In science and technology much interest has been shown in the evaluation of research performance by citation analysis;however, even the basic use of bibliographic secondary sources is not being well utilized in the arts & humanities in Japan. ISI first published the Arts & Humanities Citation Index in 1978.The coverage is very broad and includes architecture, fine arts, music, film, theater as well as literature, and A & HCI has been popular in English-speaking countries. The items from Japan account for only 0.3% of the total volume but even that amount can be helpful for citation analysis. Major authors, major corporate sources and hot papers are all ready for searching with rank listings. For example, Yasunari Kawabata and Akira Kurosawa have 2 and 12 papers respectively, but the number of citations to their works are 71 and 307 respectively. Furthermore, A & HCI is now available in the Web of Science via the Internet or local mounting.
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