Maps on the basis of the Arts & Humanities Citation Index: the journals Leonardo and Art Journal versus "Digital Humanities" as a topic

The possibilities of using the Arts & Humanities Citation
Index (A&HCI) for journal mapping have not been sufficiently
recognized because of the absence of a Journal
Citations Report (JCR) for this database. A quasi-JCR
for the A&HCI (2008) was constructed from the data contained
in theWeb of Science and is used for the evaluation
of two journals as examples: Leonardo and Art Journal.
The maps on the basis of the aggregated journal-journal
citations within this domain can be compared with maps
including references to journals in the Science Citation
Index and Social Science Citation Index. Art journals are
cited by (social) science journals more than by other art
journals, but these journals draw upon one another in
terms of their own references. This cultural impact in
terms of being cited is not found when documents with
a topic such as "digital humanities" are analyzed. This
community of practice functions more as an intellectual
organizer than a journal.