Identifying the Intellectual Contours of a Historical Specialty: Geographical, Temporal, and Subject Emphases of the Journal of the History of Ideas

The Journal of the History of Ideas was analyzed using the descriptors and subject headings for the articles as indexed in Historical Abstracts. A bibliometric approach was used to investigate the evolution and intellectual core of the history of ideas as they revealed disciplinary orientations char...

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Published in:The Serials librarian 2008, Vol.55 (1-2), p.276-295
Main Authors: Hérubel, Jean-Pierre V. M., Goedeken, Edward A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bibliographic literature
Bibliometrics
Bibliometrics. Scientometrics
Bibliometrics. Scientometrics. Evaluation
Exact sciences and technology
History
ideas
Information and communication sciences
Information science. Documentation
intellectual history
Intellectuals
interdisciplinary
Library and information science. General aspects
multidisciplinary
Periodicals
Sciences and techniques of general use
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Summary:The Journal of the History of Ideas was analyzed using the descriptors and subject headings for the articles as indexed in Historical Abstracts. A bibliometric approach was used to investigate the evolution and intellectual core of the history of ideas as they revealed disciplinary orientations characteristic of a specialized, yet highly interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, historical subfield. Unlike other areas of historical research, intellectual history is both extremely fluid and dynamic, often incorporating aspects of other fields and melding them into new syntheses and disciplinary configurations.
ISSN:0361-526X
1541-1095
DOI:10.1080/03615260801971087