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Exploring international collaboration and language dynamics in Digital Humanities: insights from co-authorship networks in canonical journals

Gao, Jin; Nyhan, Julianne; Duke-Williams, Oliver; Mahony, Simon; (2023) Exploring international collaboration and language dynamics in Digital Humanities: insights from co-authorship networks in canonical journals. Journal of Documentation , 79 (7) pp. 240-260. 10.1108/jd-06-2023-0113. Green open access

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Abstract

Purpose: This paper presents a follow-on study that quantifies geolingual markers and their apparent connection with authorship collaboration patterns in canonical Digital Humanities (DH) journals. In particular, it seeks to detect patterns in authors' countries of work and languages in co-authorship networks. // Design/methodology/approach: Through an in-depth co-authorship network analysis, this study analysed bibliometric data from three canonical DH journals over a range of 52 years (1966–2017). The results are presented as visualised networks with centrality calculations. // Findings: The results suggest that while DH scholars may not collaborate as frequently as those in other disciplines, when they do so their collaborations tend to be more international than in many Science and Engineering, and Social Sciences disciplines. DH authors in some countries (e.g. Spain, Finland, Australia, Canada, and the UK) have the highest international co-author rates, while others have high national co-author rates but low international rates (e.g. Japan, the USA, and France). // Originality/value: This study is the first DH co-authorship network study that explores the apparent connection between language and collaboration patterns in DH. It contributes to ongoing debates about diversity, representation, and multilingualism in DH and academic publishing more widely.

Type: Article
Title: Exploring international collaboration and language dynamics in Digital Humanities: insights from co-authorship networks in canonical journals
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1108/jd-06-2023-0113
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1108/jd-06-2023-0113
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © Jin Gao, Julianne Nyhan, Oliver Duke-Williams and Simon Mahony. Published by Emerald Publishing Limited. This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode.
Keywords: Digital Humanities, Network analysis, Co-authorship, Geolingual effects
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/10179489
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