{"id":1002,"date":"2021-11-08T17:32:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T16:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2021-11-08T17:32:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T16:32:29","slug":"where-do-we-publish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/2021\/11\/where-do-we-publish\/","title":{"rendered":"Where do we publish?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a division, we publish a lot in many different outlets. Klara M\u00fcller<\/a>, Linus Sal\u00f6<\/a> and Sverker S\u00f6rlin<\/a> have compiled the following discussion of our publication pattern in our last Biennial report, which you can find here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Trends in Publishing<\/strong><\/p>\n

The following section is dedicated to an analysis of the Division\u2019s publication patterns and is based on information collected from Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet, DiVA. The information in DiVA is uploaded by the researchers themselves. \u201cScientific publications\u201d, as defined here, are publications registered in DiVA as \u201crefereed\u201d or \u201cother academic\u201d. The category does not include the content-type \u201cother (popular science, discussion, etc.)\u201d. For this year\u2019s report, we have also excluded the subcategories \u201coral presentation only\u201d, \u201coral presentation with published abstract\u201d, and posters.<\/p>\n

Thus defined, the output of scientific publications in 2019 and 2020 combined is 212. The two dominant publication types are article in journal (102) and chapter in book (61). Together, these two publication types amount to 77 % of all scientific publications. The remaining publication types consist of book reviews (14) and books (9) along with doctoral theses (4), reports (7) and edited collections (8).<\/p>\n

Why should we analyze publication data?<\/em>
\nScholars from a wide range of subjects have criticized the usage of metrics to evaluate research, and this critique has been particularly forceful from scholars active in humanities disciplines. We hope that by compiling publication data from DiVA, we can identify patterns that would not be possible to determine otherwise. This analysis acknowledges certain aspects of the Division\u2019s publication output mediated through visualizations, numbers and charts. We can use the data to identify trends, strengths and weaknesses in publication patterns. But it is, of course, only possible to reflect certain aspects of what the members of the Division have been working on the last couple of years. It also brings up important questions about what we should measure, what this type of analysis of this type of data can tell us, and what research output we should focus on. How much can the Division publish, while maintaining high-quality publications? What is high-quality research, and what can we do to produce that? This analysis will not answer these broad questions, but might instead provoke new insights on what we can use metrics for.<\/p>\n

Overall trends 2010 \u2013 2020<\/em>
\nOverall, the Division\u2019s publications have seen a stable increase during the last decade. The most prominent category is refereed journal articles, while the output of the other categories (refereed book chapters, books, dissertations, other academic publication types) have been fairly stable. To put this in context, the Division\u2019s research output has grown in a period when such output has in a general decreased in Sweden. According to the latest UK\u00c4 report (February 2021), total publications dropped by 17 %, and in Humanities and Art the decrease has been no less than 23 %. The total number of peer-reviewed articles in the latter category was 1164 in Sweden during 2020.<\/p>\n

The 2017 \u2013 2018 Division report identified a salient rise in peer-reviewed publications and publications published in English. These trends are persisting. In 2010, the largest content type was \u201cother\u201d, followed by \u201cother academic\u201d and \u201crefereed\u201d. A decade later, in 2020, the proportions were reversed, with refereed publications being the most numerous and the proportionally largest content type.<\/p>\n

Publishing languages<\/em>
\nBecause Swedish is by far the most common language used in output categorized as \u201cother\u201d, the relative share of Swedish-language publications in the Division has dropped from 55 % in 2010 to 39 % in 2020 when all content types are considered. It follows that this tendency is even stronger when only scientific publications are examined. In 2010, a third of the scientific publications were published in Swedish; in 2020, we are down to a fifth. That said, the trend does not point to a continuous decrease in Swedish-language scientific publications.<\/p>\n

Refereed journals 2019 \u2013 2020
\nThe larger the word, the more frequent it is in the titles of the refereed journals that members of the Division have been publishing in over the last two years. This gives a hint of the areas of interest of members of the Division.<\/p>\n

During the past two years, members of the Division have been publishing in the following outlets:<\/p>\n

Peer-reviewed journals
\n\u2022 Ab Imperio: Theory and History of Nationalities and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Realm
\n\u2022 Ambio: A Journal of Environment and Society
\n\u2022 Annals of the American Association of Geographers
\n\u2022 Body & Society
\n\u2022 Cahiers du Monde Russe
\n\u2022 Cogent Arts and Humanities
\n\u2022 Current Anthropology
\n\u2022 Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
\n\u2022 Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities
\n\u2022 Ecology & Society
\n\u2022 Ecology and Evolution
\n\u2022 Energy Policy
\n\u2022 Energy Research & Social Science
\n\u2022 Environment and History
\n\u2022 Environmental History
\n\u2022 Environmental humanities
\n\u2022 Environmental Justice
\n\u2022 Environmental Science and Policy
\n\u2022 \u0116tnograficheskoe Obozrenie
\n\u2022 Fennia: International Journal of Geography
\n\u2022 Fish and Fisheries
\n\u2022 Frontiers in Energy Research
\n\u2022 Geographical Journal
\n\u2022 Global Environment
\n\u2022 Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism
\n\u2022 H-Environment Roundtable Reviews
\n\u2022 Historiallinen Aikakauskirja [Historical Journal]
\n\u2022 History and Anthropology
\n\u2022 Humanities
\n\u2022 Industry & Higher Education
\n\u2022 International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
\n\u2022 Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
\n\u2022 J ournal of Environmental Policy & Planning
\n\u2022 Journal of Historical Geography
\n\u2022 Journal of Northern Studies
\n\u2022 Journal of Transport History
\n\u2022 Land Use Policy
\n\u2022 Landscape and Urban Planning
\n\u2022 Landscape Research
\n\u2022 Language in Society
\n\u2022 Leonardo Music Journal
\n\u2022 Media Theory
\n\u2022 Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy
\n\u2022 Mobilities Journal
\n\u2022 Multilingua: Journal of Cross-cultural and Interlanguage Communication
\n\u2022 Nature
\n\u2022 Nature Climate Change
\n\u2022 Niin & N\u00e4in: filosofinen aikakauslehti
\n\u2022 NTM: International Journal of History and Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology and Medicine
\n\u2022 Polar Geography
\n\u2022 Polar Record
\n\u2022 Popular Communication
\n\u2022 Progress in Planning
\n\u2022 Public History Weekly
\n\u2022 Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities
\n\u2022 Scandinavian Economic History Review
\n\u2022 Scandinavian Journal of History
\n\u2022 Scientia Canadiensis: Canadian Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
\n\u2022 Sibirskie Istoricheskie Issledovaniia
\n\u2022 Sport in Society: Cultures, Media, Politics, Commerce
\n\u2022 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
\n\u2022 Sustainability
\n\u2022 Sustainability Science
\n\u2022 Technology and Culture
\n\u2022 Technology in Society
\n\u2022 Tertiary Education and Management
\n\u2022 The Extractive Industries and Society
\n\u2022 Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis
\n\u2022 Trace: Journal of Writing, Media, Ecology
\n\u2022 Turkish Studies
\n\u2022 Urban Geography
\n\u2022 WIREs [Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews] Water
\nBooks with the following publishing houses:
\n\u2022 KK-stiftelsen (Stockholm)
\n\u2022 Routledge (3)
\n\u2022 Natur & Kultur (Stockholm)
\n\u2022 Baggrund.com (Copenhagen)
\n\u2022 Ellerstr\u00f6ms f\u00f6rlag (Lund, SE)
\n\u2022 Campus Verlag (Frankfurt)
\n\u2022 Bokf\u00f6rlaget Atlas (Stockholm)
\n\u2022 MIT Press (Cambridge, MA)
\nChapters in books with the following publishing houses:
\n\u2022 Aalto ARTS Books (Helsinki) (2)
\n\u2022 Arche Press (Gothenburg)
\n\u2022 Arkiv f\u00f6rlag & tidskrift (Lund) (3)
\n\u2022 Art and Theory Publishing (Stockholm)
\n\u2022 Bentham eBooks
\n\u2022 De Gruyter (Berlin)
\n\u2022 Deutsches Museum Verlag (Munich)
\n\u2022 Dialogos F\u00f6rlag (Stockholm) (2)
\n\u2022 F\u00f6reningen f\u00f6r folkbildningsforskning (Stockholm)
\n\u2022 Gnasso Editore (Aversa, IT)
\n\u2022 John Wiley & Sons
\n\u2022 Jovis Verlag GmbH (Berlin)
\n\u2022 Kungl. Ingenj\u00f6rsvetenskap-sakademien (Stockholm) (3)
\n\u2022 MIT Press (3)
\n\u2022 Natur & Kultur (Stockholm)
\n\u2022 Nordiska museets f\u00f6rlag (Stockholm) (3)
\n\u2022 Open Book Publishers (Cambridge, UK) (5)
\n\u2022 Open Humanities Press (London)
\n\u2022 Palgrave Macmillan (4)
\n\u2022 PM edizioni (Varazze, IT)
\n\u2022 Polaris (Stockholm)
\n\u2022 Regeringskansliet (Stockholm)
\n\u2022 Routledge (22)
\n\u2022 Sage Publications (Los Angeles & London)
\n\u2022 SISU Idrottsb\u00f6cker (Stockholm)
\n\u2022 Springer Nature (2)
\n\u2022 Tartu University Press (Tartu, FI)
\n\u2022 Taylor & Francis (7)
\n\u2022 The University of Alabama Press<\/p>\n

Topics<\/em>
\nKeywords corroborate the impression from journal titles that environment is a cross cutting theme in much of the Division\u2019s research. The strong social concern is also visible (words such as political, justice, human, labour), along with an interest in urban issues, infrastructures, and energy in various forms. Science and technology also loom large as do gender\/feminist, heritage, climate, and the Anthropocene. A significant category is \u201cearth objects\u201d such as sea, earth, air, water. As for geographical spread many regions appear, from the Philippines to the Baltic, but Sweden and Polar\/Arctic are the most frequent ones, reflecting major research efforts in these areas. Our two special hubs are reflected in a strong presence of \u201cEnvironmental Humanities\u201d, and \u201cPosthumanities\u201d.<\/p>\n

Collaboration<\/em>
\nCollaboration in academic publishing is a strong trend. On page 35 we have listed the Division\u2019s unique collaboration partners during 2019 and 2020, through co-authorships registered in DiVA. It is possible to identify certain clusters \u2013 outside of Sweden, universities in the US and the UK are frequent collaboration partners in our publishing. There are also many collaboration partners in the north \u2013 Norway, Iceland, Russia, Canada and Finland.<\/p>\n

The rise of our co-authorships reflects, above all, continued internationalization, both of research collaboration and research content. This is in line with a general trend in humanities research in Sweden for more than a decade. According to a report from the research council VR (The Research Barometer 2019, p. 62), the share of Arts and Humanities publications co-authored internationally grew from 18 to 30 % from 2007 to 2017. As the figure illustrates the Division has moved in the same direction, only somewhat earlier and in a more pronounced way. In 2020 such publications made up around 50 % of our total publications (taking into account that a small handfulof the co-authorships are within Sweden). Part of the explanation is probably the relatively high proportion of non-Swedes among our researchers, but our collaboration networks are also important.<\/p>\n

Publishing for other audiences<\/em>
\nThe following category of publications is not included in the analysis of scientific publications, since it is based on what is defined as \u201cother (popular science, discussion, etc.)\u201d in DiVA. This review was made to get a better understanding of how the Division\u2019s publishing engages with audiences outside academia. In 2019 and 2020, members of the Division\u2019s most frequent \u201cnon-scientific\u201d publications, were in the newspapers Dagens Nyheter (16) and Svenska Dagbladet (9). The web-based magazine Curie, issued by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsr\u00e5det), has also been a dominant outlet for non-scientific publications.
\nAs the word cloud indicates, with newspapers as the dominant outlet, \u201carticle in journal\u201d is the most common outlet in the category \u201cother\u201d, with 54 posts. But it is not the only one. There are also \u201cchapter in book\u201d (6) and, again, \u201cother\u201d (16). In this category, we find a mixture of blog posts and other online discussion outlets.
\nThe category \u201cother\u201d has been fairly stable the last decade, except for a dip in 2013 and a rise in 2020. The stability indicates that members of the Division have not published less in non-peer-reviewed outlets, for example, newspapers, due to the rise in refereed articles and book chapters. We can also identify a notable rise in publications in the category \u201cother\u201d during 2020. A possible explanation of this rise in publications during 2020 might be the Covid-19 pandemic and the need for researchers to engage in public debates, which members of the Division have done with at least 10 texts reflecting on the crisis.<\/p>\n

In the category \u201cother\u201d, Swedish is the dominant language with 61 publications, followed by English with 10 publications. This can be compared to the Division\u2019s scientific publications, where English has been the dominant language of use since 2006.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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