Characteristics of the Monographic Literature of British and American Literary Studies

Abstract

shows an mcreasmg recent m-, ~~~~ terest in the patterns of citation and reference for the humanities literature. Though most of these studies follow the lead of earlier work in the sciences and social sciences, there were isolated studies of humanities citation patterns in the literature as early as 1959 and 1960. Librarians have sought to understand which sources are most used by researchers so as to be able to supply those items in times of budgetary crisis when cuts in acquisitions have been inevitable; scholars over the past fifteen years have adopted or adapted such techniques from the sciences and social sciences as citation studies to gain a clearer, less subjective view of what materials function as core collections for the various disciplines.These studies, while using the methodology developed in the sciences and social sciences, have found significant differences between the use of the journal literature in the sciences and social sciences and that of the humanities. The collection and evaluation of data determining which books, journal articles, manuscripts, and dissertations have been cited by scholars in their work and the currency of these materials have been used for both theoretical and more controversially practical ends. As well as providing a means to augment the researcher's knowledge of the , shape of a discipline's literature, administrators have used this data in promotion and tenure decisions, and librarians have used it in the development of collection development guidelines.Citation studies can be performed by a single individual in a relatively short time

A citation analysis of Catalan literary studies (1974–2003): Towards a bibliometrics of humanities studies in minority languages

“…It remains to be seen whether the co-citation analysis of the works cited can provide similar information to the thematic analyses of journals based on an ad hoc human classification that have been carried out by several authors. 1 9 9 9 1 9 9 4 1 9 8 9 1 9 8 4 1 9 7 9 1 9 7 4 1 9 6 9 1 9 6 4 1 9 5 9 1 9 5 4 1 9 4 9 1 9 4 4 1 9 3 9 1 9 3 4 1 9 2 9 1 9 2 4 1 9 1 9 1 9 1 4 1 9 0 9 1 9 0 4 1 8 9 9 [Cullars, 1988] Non-English literatures studied by English-speakers 81.0 10.9 [Cullars, 1985] UK and US literature in English 65.7 13.3 [Stern, 1983] Literature: writers 82.7 15.1 [Cullars, 1990] Spanish literature 75.5 15.9 [Stern, 1983] Literature: literary movements 78.8 16.5 [Thompson, 2002] 19th-century British and American literature in English 66.9 18.0 [Heinzkill, 1980] British literature in English 75.0 19.9 [Cullars, 1989] German literature 70.5 22.5 [Cullars, 1990] Italian literature 71.5 22.6 [Budd, 1986] US literature in English 64.0 23.0 [Cullars, 1989] French literature 70.1 27.6 [Gleaves, 1961] North American literature in English ? 34.7 Table 9.…”

“…This situation is due to the traditional importance of writing monographs [WATSON-BOONE, 1994;LINDHOLM-ROMANTSCHUK, WARNER, 1996] and the use of vernacular languages other than English that are not well represented in the A&HCI [NEDERHOF ET AL., 1989;CULLARS 1990; URBANO . The specific bibliometric studies of literature carried out so far have covered mainly languages with a large number of speakers: British and/or American literature in English [GLEAVES, 1961;HEINZKILL, 1980;STERN, 1983;CULLARS, 1985;BUDD, 1986;THOMPSON, 2002]; German literature [CULLARS, 1989]; French literature [CULLARS, 1989]; Spanish literature [CULLARS, 1990] and Italian literature [CULLARS, 1990]. However, to the authors' knowledge no studies have dealt with literatures corresponding to languages with fewer potential users that have to compete in their geographic area with more widespread languages.…”

Use of Circulation Statistics and Interlibrary Loan Data in Collection Management

“…17 In addition, literature and history remain fields that rely very heavily on the research monograph, which may contribute to the large size of the collections. [18][19][20] In contrast, though UCB has a very strong chemistry program, the collection is more dominated by serials and electronic resources than monographs. UCB has an anthropology program.…”

A Citation Study of the Characteristics of the Linguistics Literature

“…10 Within the humanities, the subject category in which linguistics has most o en been placed, a large number of citation analyses have focused on the field of literary scholarship. [11][12][13][14][15][16] In addition to literary studies, John M. Cullars has examined the citation characteristics of monographs in the fine arts and philosophy. [17][18][19] In Maurice B.…”