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Joint and multi-authored publication patterns in the Digital Humanities

Nyhan, J; Duke-Williams, O; (2014) Joint and multi-authored publication patterns in the Digital Humanities. Literary and Linguistic Computing , 29 (3) 387- 399. 10.1093/llc/fqu018. Green open access

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Abstract

The stereotype of the multi-authored Digital Humanities paper is well known but has not, until now, been empirically investigated. Here we present the results of a statistical analysis of collaborative publishing patterns in Computers and the Humanities (CHum) (1966–2004); Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC) (1986–2011); and, as a control, the Annals of the Association of American Geographers (AAAG) (1966–2013) in order to take a first step towards investigating concepts of ‘collaboration’ in Digital Humanities. We demonstrate that in two core Digital Humanities journals, CHum and LLC, single-authored papers predominate. In AAAG, single-authored papers are also predominant. In regard to multi-authored papers the statistically significant increases are more wide-ranging in AAAG than in either LLC or CHum, with increases in all forms of multi-authorship. The author connectivity scores show that in CHum, LLC, and AAAG, there is a relatively small cohort of authors who co-publish with a wide set of other authors, and a longer tail of authors for whom co-publishing is less common.

Type: Article
Title: Joint and multi-authored publication patterns in the Digital Humanities
Event: Digital Humanities Conference
Location: University of Nebraska
Dates: 2013-07-17 - 2013-07-20
ISBN-13: 978-1-60962-037-0
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqu018
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqu018
Language: English
Additional information: © The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of EADH. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Information Studies
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1401743
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