The Search for Landmark Works in English Literary Studies: A Citation Analysis

Nolen, David; Richardson, Hillary

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2016.04.002

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“…Such was the case for the seminal work on the history of technology by McCain [1987] or for a study on Nineteenth-century British and American literary studies [Thompson, 2002]. More recently, Nolen and Richardson [2016] found "a lack of any unifying core" in English literary studies, due to the diversity in the use of sources made by scholars.…”

Section: Books and Core Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

The structural role of the core literature in history

Colavizza

2017

Scientometrics

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The intellectual landscapes of the humanities are mostly uncharted territory. Little is known on the ways published research of humanist scholars defines areas of intellectual activity. An open question relates to the structural role of core literature: highly cited sources, naturally playing a disproportionate role in the definition of intellectual landscapes. We introduce four indicators in order to map the structural role played by core sources into connecting different areas of the intellectual landscape of citing publications (i.e. communities in the bibliographic coupling network). All indicators factor out the influence of degree distributions by internalizing a null configuration model. By considering several datasets focused on history, we show that two distinct structural actions are performed by the core literature: a global one, by connecting otherwise separated communities in the landscape, or a local one, by rising connectivity within communities. In our study, the global action is mainly performed by small sets of scholarly monographs, reference works and primary sources, while the rest of the core, and especially most journal articles, acts mostly locally.

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Section: Books and Core Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

The structural role of the core literature in history

Colavizza

2017

Scientometrics

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“…Yet one of the main features of the humanities is their reliance on monographs, which still are the main publication channel in most humanities disciplines (Thompson, 2002;Knievel and Kellsey, 2005;Larivière et al, 2006;Williams et al, 2009), and specifically in historiography (Jones et al, 1972). As a consequence, the most cited literature in any field within the humanities should essentially include monographs (Hicks, 1999), indeed the conclusion reached by some previous studies (Lindholm-Romantschuk and Warner, 1996;Hammarfelt, 2011Hammarfelt, , 2012, even if others struggled to find a set of core works in specific fields (McCain, 1987;Thompson, 2002;Nolen and Richardson, 2016). The contrasting results provided by previous literature are motivated by a set of considerations, which relate to the citation patterns of the humanities more in general.…”

Section: Monographs and The Core Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

The Core Literature of the Historians of Venice

Colavizza

2017

Front. Digit. Humanit.

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Over the past decades, the humanities have been accumulating a growing body of literature at an increasing pace. How does this impact their traditional organization into disciplines and fields of research therein? This article considers history, by examining a citation network among recent monographs on the history of Venice. The resulting network is almost connected, clusters of monographs are identifiable according to specific disciplinary areas (history, history of architecture, and history of arts) or periods of time (middle ages, early modern, and modern history), and a map of the recent trends in the field is sketched. Most notably a set of highly cited works emerges as the core literature of the historians of Venice. This core literature comprises a mix of primary sources, works of reference, and scholarly monographs and is important in keeping the field connected: monographs usually cite a combination of few core and a variety of less well-cited works. Core primary sources and works of reference never age, while core scholarly monographs are replaced at a very slow rate by new ones. The reliance of new publications on the core literature is slowly rising over time, as the field gets increasingly more varied.

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“…Another research has been conducted by Nolen & Richardson (2016) that investigate citation analysis of landmark works in English literary studies. They examine Jane Austen's Persuasion because it is the most read novel in 2011 to 2013 in English Department where the research is conducted.…”

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“…Firstly, the difference is the data source of the research. Fischer-Starcke (2009), Mahlberg (2010), Nolen & Richardson (2016) are concerned with only one of Jane Austen's novels. On the other hand, the current research uses six novels of Jane Austen.…”

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“…Therefore, the current research has larger size and composition of the corpus. Secondly, the difference is the type of corpus device Fische-Starcke (2009) employs corpus stylistic, Mahlberg (2010) employs WordSmith device, and Nolen & Richardson (2016) use MLA International Bibliography in order to process the data. In the current research, the researchers select AntConc ver.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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[Woman]’s World Portrayed in Literary Works of Jane Austen

Praminatih

Nafiah²

2018

Lingua Cultura

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The researchers conducted research on Jane Austen literary works since she was a prominent female novelist with mostly discussed novels. The aim of this research was investigating how Jane Austen portrayed [woman] in the18th century through literary works. Six major novels were used as data. Hence qualitative method was employed. The novels were converted using AntConc. Then, the researchers identified the 50 highest collocations of [woman] based on three main categories in part of speech namely adjective, noun, and verb. The results reveal that Jane Austen portrays [woman] in the 18th century with positive and negative aspects; internal and external qualities that reflected through adjectives. Jane Austen often uses concrete and abstract nouns related to domestic property collocated with the word [woman]. Furthermore, the verbs that collocate with [woman] in Jane Austen’s literary works are productive verbs. The researchers find that the adjectives, nouns, and verbs that attach to [woman] in Jane Austen novels are related to the domestic sphere and their quality of being strong, logical, and intellectual.

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The Search for Landmark Works in English Literary Studies: A Citation Analysis

Cited by 5 publications

References 14 publications

The structural role of the core literature in history

The structural role of the core literature in history

The Core Literature of the Historians of Venice

[Woman]’s World Portrayed in Literary Works of Jane Austen

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