{"id":873,"date":"2020-02-10T22:49:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T03:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.haa.pitt.edu\/digitalcriticalmethods\/?p=873"},"modified":"2020-02-10T22:49:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T03:49:54","slug":"useful-not-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.haa.pitt.edu\/digitalcriticalmethods\/useful-not-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful? Not really"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rice, Louise. &#8220;Urban VIII, the Archangel Michael, and a Forgotten Project for the Apse Altar of St Peter&#8217;s.&#8221; <i>The Burlington Magazine\u00a0<\/i>134, no. 1072 (1992): 428-34. Accessed February 10, 2020. www.jstor.org\/stable\/885200<\/p>\n<p>Step 1)<\/p>\n<p>What is the total number of citations? <strong>6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What can you learn about the number of citations to this article per year since it was published?\u00a0<strong>2 years had 2 citations (2001, 2017), 2 years had 1 citation (1997, 1998)\u2026but I don\u2019t understand where the years are coming from because they don\u2019t correspond to publication dates of the articles that are citing it.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What can you learn about who cites this article?\u00a0 What are their disciplinary identifications? <strong>4 art historians cite the article, 1 Milton scholar (maybe? I wasn\u2019t able to actually find the citation.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Step 2)<\/p>\n<p>What is the total number of publications? <strong>7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is the H-index? <strong>2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What are the average citations per item? <strong>1.86<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Which of these numbers would you prefer to have used in evaluations for hiring and tenure?\u00a0 Why? <strong>If I\u2019m Louise Rice, number of publications. If I\u2019m looking for impact on scholarship, probably H-index. None of these number seem particularly useful for hiring or tenure because they don\u2019t actually provide a real representation of anything in this case.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is this kind of analysis appropriate for all academic fields? Why or why not? <strong>I had a really difficult time even finding any of the articles that I thought were influential in my field in this database (this was the 7th article I tried), so I don\u2019t feel that it is providing me with an accurate representation of the impact of the scholarship on my field. Part of the reason for this is that a lot of art historical scholarship is published in monographs or in edited volumes rather than in the journals that would appear in this database. I imagine this is true for a lot of humanities scholarship.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rice, Louise. &#8220;Urban VIII, the Archangel Michael, and a Forgotten Project for the Apse Altar of St Peter&#8217;s.&#8221; The Burlington Magazine\u00a0134, no. 1072 (1992): 428-34. Accessed February 10, 2020. www.jstor.org\/stable\/885200 Step 1) What is the total number of citations? 6 What can you learn about the number of citations to this article per year since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unit-3a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.haa.pitt.edu\/digitalcriticalmethods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.haa.pitt.edu\/digitalcriticalmethods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.haa.pitt.edu\/digitalcriticalmethods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.haa.pitt.edu\/digitalcriticalmethods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.haa.pitt.edu\/digitalcriticalmethods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.haa.pitt.edu\/digitalcriticalmethods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.haa.pitt.edu\/digitalcriticalmethods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.haa.pitt.edu\/digitalcriticalmethods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.haa.pitt.edu\/digitalcriticalmethods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}