Towards a better understanding of publishing studies based on course syllabi reading lists

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1 Towards a better understanding of publishing studies based on course syllabi reading lists Franjo Pehar Department of Information Sciences, University of Zadar Josipa Selthofer Department of Information Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Osijek

2 Outline 1 Introduction and literature review 2 Methods 3 Results 4 Discussion / Conclusion

3 1 INTRODUCTION

4 Context: The Year After BTB1 BTB1 23/5/2014 Methodological approaches to modern publishing: current constrains and future prospects (Velagić & Pehar) PTC2 8/12/2015 Roots [and outcomes] of publishing studies: a bibliometric approach (Velagić & Pehar) 9/12/2014 What comes :irst? Publishing business or publishing studies? (Selthofer)

5 Aim and approach 1. Theoretical classiaications of literature 2. In search for empirical evidence Investigate the current social and cognitive organisation of publishing studies based on archived footprints : Core researchers (social identity) Shared knowledge (cognitive proaile) Distinct set of problems, vocabulary and literature (research area, cohesive discourse; set of related documents)

6 Bibliometric approach Deainition The application of mathematical and statistical techniques to analyze the patterns that appear in publications and documents (Groos and Pritchard, 1969) Rationale The collective action of contributors from the discipline/ specialty ultimately determines its identity and direction Advantage Quantiaiable and objective Unveil research topics currently undetected by expert evaluations Examine the exchange of knowledge and scientiaic communication

7 Altmetric approach PTC2 (9/12/2014) What comes :irst? Publishing business or publishing studies? (Selthofer) In search for additional empirical evidence extended to non- traditional documents (bibliometrics > altmetrics) New types of web impact analysis Beyond academic documents found in citation indexes New web sources helpful for impact assesment such as online course reading lists, presentations and blogs

8 Research questions Methods and data collection 1. Is it possible and does it make sense to apply bibliometric techniques to non- traditional documents like course reading lists? 2. What are the main problems with accessing course reading lists? Course reading lists 1. What are the main characterics of cited documents? 2. What are the language characteristics of cited documents? 3. What are the authorship characteristics and who are the most inaluential authors in the aield of publishing studies?

9 3 METHODS

10 Data and methods [1]: data collection REFERENCE ANALYSIS Initial set of 38 BA/MA publishing study programs covered by PTC2 paper Found 20 programs with online available course descriptions Extracted 1704 references found in reading lists of 176 courses R 1704 C 176

11 Data and methods [2]: collection, preparation, coding and cleansing (tool chain) For example: Thompson, John B., Merchants of culture: the publishing business in the twenty- 7irst century, Cambridge: Polity. 1. AnyStyle - spliting citation references into segments (author, title etc.) and exporting BibTeX records > 2. OpenReaine name disambiguation 3. JabRef reference manager used for storing, structring, cleaning and exporting data sto standards bibliographic formats necessary for further analysis (BibTeX, RIS, etc.) 4. BibExcel bibliometric tool

12 3 RESULTS

13 Descriptive statistics: courses & reading lists PS courses 20 study programes 3 BA, 17 MA/MS 176 courses BA 18% - - MA/MS 82% 18 institutions 10 countries Reading lists 1704 references 1712 authors > 1050 unique 1.6 authors per cited document 65% of documents cited only once

14 Institution/Country No. Courses No. Ref. ANGELIA RUSKIN/GBR 1 29 CITY UNIVERSITY LONDON/GBR J. GUTENBERG- UNIVERSITÄT/DEU LANGARA COLLEGE/CAN 9 23 OXFORD BROOKS/GBR PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY/USA 6 67 SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY/CAN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON/GBR UNIVERSITE DE CERGY- PONTIOSE/FRA UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON/USA 4 29 UNIVERSITY OF LEIDEN/NLD 9 22 UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA/SVN 8 30 UNIVERSITY J.J.STROSSMAYER/HRV 8 77 UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13/FRA 1 44 UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND/AUS 5 10 UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING/GBR UNIVERSITY OF VILNIUS/LTU UNIVERSITY OF ZADAR/HRV 6 61 Total

15 Course titles: keywords & concepts

16 No. of references per course An average course list > 9.7 references

17 Publication years of cited references

18 Type of cited references

19 Language of cited references Language No. references % EN ,1% DE ,1% LT 117 6,9% FR 116 6,8% HR 70 4,1% SL 7 0,4% RU 5 0,3% SR 3 0,2% ES 2 0,1% Total ,0%

20 Non- English speaking countries i.e. references EN- EN 100,0% DE- DE 95,0% FR- FR 82,4% LT- LT 73,4% HR- HR 51,1% SL- SL 24,1% NL- NL 0%

21 Most- cited monographs 14 merchants of culture the publishing business in the twenty airst century / Thompson, John B 13 inside book publishing / Clark, Giles - Phillips, Angus 10 publishing for proait successful bottom line management for book publishers / Woll, Thomas 10 how to market books / Baverstock, Alison 9 books in the digital age the transformation of academic and higher education publishing in britain and the united states / Thompson, John B. 8 book business publishing past present and future / Epstein, Jason 7 the case for books past present and future / Darnton, Robert 7 selling rights / Owen, Lynette 6 book commissioning and acquisition / Davies, Gillian 6 the publishing business from p books to e books / Smith, Kelvin 5 marketing literature the making of contemporary writing in britain / Squires, Claire 5 the aield of cultural production essays on art and literature / Bourdieu, Pierre 5 publishing principles practice / Guthrie, Richard 5 the book history reader / Finkelstein, David; McCleery, Alistair

22 5 a history of british publishing / Feather, John 5 the elements of typographic style / Bringhurst, Robert 4 the columbia guide to digital publishing / Kasdorf, William 4 the magazine from cover to cover / Johnson, Sammye; Prijatel, Patricia 4 communicating knowledge publishing in the 21st century / Feather, John 4 a companion to digital humanities / Schreibmann, S.; Siemens, R.; Unsworth, J 4 an introduction to book history / Finkelstein, David; McCleery, Alistair 4 the business of books how international conglomerates took over publishing and changed the way we read / Schiffrin, André 4 the business of digital publishing an introduction to the digital book and journal industries / Hall, Frania 4 the professionals guide to publishing a practical introduction to working in the publishing industry / Davies, Gillian; Balkwill, Richard 4 keine kulturtheorie ohne geldtheorie grundlegung einer theorie des buchverlags / Jäger, Georg 4 the content machine towards a theory of publishing from the printing press to the digital network / Bhaskar, Michael 4 handbuch lesen / Franzmann, Bodo; Hasemann, Klaus; Löfaler, Dietrich; Schön, Erich 4 book makers british publishing in the twentieth century / Stevenson, Iain 4 a companion to the history of the book / Eliot, Simon; Rose, Jonathan

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24 Most- cited periodicals Times cited No. citations % publishing research quarterly 16 7,2% knygotyra 9 4,1% journal of information science 5 2,3% logos 5 2,3% journal of electronic publishing 4 1,8%

25 Most- cited authors Times cited No. Authors % ,1% ,1% ,1% ,1% ,5% ,3% 9 1 0,1% 8 7 0,7% 7 5 0,5% ,0% ,3% ,3% ,4% ,6% ,0% Total ,0%

26 ... Times cited Author Times Cited Author 24 Thompson JB 10 Chartier R 17 Baverstock A 10 Davies G 14 Phillips A 9 Schiffrin A 13 Clark G 8 Kovač M 11 Feather J 8 Breyer- Mayländer T 11 Darnton R 8 Lorimer R 11 Mccleery A 8 Epstein J 11 Squires C 8 Bourdieu P 11 Finkelstein D 8 Cope B 10 Woll T 8 Owen L

27 4 DISCUSSION / CONCLUSION

28 Thank you! Hvala!