Schrader, J. L. “George Grey Barnard: The Cloisters and The Abbaye.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 37, no. 1 (Summer 1979): 3–52.
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Cited Reference Search
Total number of citations: 3
Borland, Jennifer and Martha Easton. “Integrated Pasts: Glencairn Museum and Hammond Castle.” Gesta 57, no. 1 (Spring 2018): 95–118.
Chong, Alan. “The Gothic Experience: Re-creating History in American Museums.” Journal of the History of Collections 27, no. 3 (2015): 481–491.
Maxwell, Robert. “Accounting for Taste: American Collectors and Twelfth-Century French Sculpture.” Journal of the History of Collections 27, no. 3 (2015): 389–400.
What can you learn about the number of citations to this article per year since it was published?
The number of citations to this article seems restricted to citations in articles, rather than including citations to this article in books, essays in edited volumes, and other formats, such as exhibition catalogues. For example, the article I selected for this exercise is cited in Elizabeth Bradford Smith, “George Grey Barnard: Artist/Collector/Dealer/Curator,” Medieval Art in America: Patterns of Collecting 1800–1940 (University Park: Palmer Museum of Art, 1996): 133–142, which is an essay in an exhibition catalogue from 1996, seventeen years after the Schrader article was published, but the Smith essay did not appear as having a citation to the Schrader article in my cited reference search. The restriction of publication formats considered would seem to limit the usefulness of such a search for my field of study, which is the history of art and architecture.
The cited reference index provided three search results, each to the same article by Schrader, with slightly different information for the cited author, issue, and page of the article, and each of the three results led to a different citing article. Two of the citing articles were published in 2015 in the same special issue of the Journal of the History of Collections, and the third citing article was published in 2018. That Schrader’s article from 1979 is cited in these three recent articles indicates that Schrader’s work is still of interest to scholars writing on similar material, or at least that Schrader’s work is referred to in discussions of the state of the literature.
What can you learn about who cites this article? What are their disciplinary identifications?
The four authors who cite Schrader’s article are art historians, medievalists, and museum professionals with interests in medievalism, the history of collections, and antiquarianism.
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Basic Search
I had difficulty with the basic search. The author of the journal article I selected, J. L. Schrader, did not appear in the Basic Search results of any variation of “J. L. Schrader” that I tried. I did, however, find three articles by J. L. Schrader using the Author Search, though the articles were included in the algorithmically generated author record of Jordyn Lee Schrader, who is apparently affiliated with the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Delaware. The information below is gathered from the results of my Author Search.
Total number of publications: 3
Schrader, J. L. “A Medieval Bestiary.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin New Series 44, no. 1, A Medieval Bestiary (Summer 1986): 1, 12–55.
Schrader, J. L. “George Grey Barnard: The Cloisters and The Abbaye.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 37, no. 1 (Summer 1979): 3–52.
Schrader, J. L. “Antique and Early Christian Sources for the Riha and Stuma Patens.” Gesta 18, no. 1, Papers Related to Objects in the Exhibition “Age of Spirituality,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art (November 1977–February 1978) (1979): 147–156.
What is the H-index?
N/A: an H-index was not provided for the J. L. Schrader for whom I was searching.
What are the average citations per item?
0.33
Which of these numbers would you prefer to have used in evaluations for hiring and tenure? Why?
For the reasons discussed previously regarding the limited usefulness of these searches for my field of study, I think that using these numbers in evaluations for hiring and tenure would be misleading, at least in the case of the article I chose for this exercise. J. L. Schrader was a curator at The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s branch museum of medieval art, and would have written or contributed to various exhibition catalogues and essays on the museum’s permanent collection, none of which were included in the search results, which seems to be due to the restriction of searchable publications to articles.
Is this kind of analysis appropriate for all academic fields? Why or why not?
The restriction of the Web of Science’s searchable publications to articles is a considerable shortcoming, in my view, that would prevent me from searching with confidence. In addition, in the Cited Reference Search, users are not able to click on the name of the cited author to view their authored articles, which I assume is in part why we were asked to perform a search for the author of our chosen article using the Web of Science’s Basic Search. For example, JSTOR has a feature that allows users to easily view all of the search results authored by and related to a given author by clicking on the author’s name, which generated six results for J. L. Schrader. Given my criticisms of the Web of Science for my field based on my searches, I don’t see myself returning to the Web of Science as a research tool.