RT Article
T1 Arts and Humanities Citation Index for Research Evaluation in the Field of Religion: Unusual Findings and Suggestions
JF Journal of religion and health
VO 65
IS 1
SP 433
OP 450
A1 Zhang, Ruifeng
A1 Liu, Weishu
A2 Liu, Weishu
LA English
YR 2026
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1963130065
AB The Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) is widely used for research evaluation, including in the field of Religion. However, apart from merely indexing research output published in journals, it is still unclear what other flaws exist when using this authoritative database to evaluate religion-related studies. Through a comprehensive analysis of the A&HCI data from a full 50-year period and the most recent 10-year period, we uncover a series of unusual findings in the field of Religion, including stagnation in the number of indexed records, absence of the author's address information, anomalies of the main contributing countries/regions, and over-concentration of preferred journals. We discuss the challenges posed by these unusual findings to the evaluation of religion-related studies using the A&HCI database. This study concludes with suggestions to the relevant stakeholders to address these issues.
K1 Arts & Humanities Citation Index
K1 bibliometric analysis
K1 Religion
K1 Religious Studies
K1 Research evaluation
K1 Web of Science Core Collection
DO 10.1007/s10943-025-02546-6