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The Journal of National Folklore (JNF) has been indexed by the Art& Humanities Citation Index since 2007. This study examines the Journal of National Folklore and bibliometric features of its articles. The research carried out covers 174 articles between the years 2007-2009. The following research questions have been addressed: 1) Is multiple authorship a prevalent feature of the articles?) 2) What are the institutional affiliations of the authors of the articles? 3) Which types of sources (journal articles, monographs, etc.) get cited most often in the articles? 4) What are the most frequently cited journals in the JNF 5) What is the rate of literature obsolescence in folklore?6) How is the status of JNF between the 18 journals indexed by A&HCI? The publications of JNF have also been indexed in Scopus, CSA Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, EBSCO Publishing, Genamics JournalSeek, IBSS International Bibliography of the Social Science, MLA Modern Language Association of America, TA Türkologischer Anzeiger. JNF is published in four issues (Spring, summer, autumn and winter)) per year. The journal was first published in 1989. The present research covers a total of 174 articles published between the years 2007-2009. To examine publications of the JNF, an online search in the A&HCI database has been performed on January 23, 2010, using the "publication name" field that is available. A total of 206 publications have been identified. Each record provided information about the author names, author addresses, publication titles, publication years, languages, document types, number of references included in the publication, and citations that the publication received as of January 23, 2010. In addition, reference lists of publications have been used th identify the cited sources. Editorials (n = 15), Bibliographca litems (n=10) and book reviews (n=7) have been excluded in this study. An average article was 8 pages long (SD=3, min.=1, maks.=24). Except for three articles, all of the articles published in the MF were in Turkish. The total number of individual authors contributing to the 174 articles was 169. Nebi Özdemir is the most prolific author with five articles. M. Öcal Oğuz, R. Aslıhan Aksoy Sheridan vs Gökhan Tunç were conduced with four articles. The total number of references included in the 174 articles was 2744. In this study, 174 citations that had no publication year information were left out of evaluation. After this elemination the total number of references dropped to 2570. Of all the citations in the 70.5% (n = 1814) were from books. Hence, the study has shown that books are very important sources for scholarly communication in folklore. The authors of JNF made a citation to journal 535 times. The most frequently cited journal was Journal of National Folklore with 81 citations. The JNF has been published in four issues in a year. Foreign researchers have not been interested in publishing articles in the JNF. Except of the three articles, all of the articles in that appeared in the JNF were in Turkish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]