The Core Literature of the Historians of Venice

Giovanni Colavizza
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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, history of arts) or periods of time (middle ages, early modern, 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.
威尼斯历史学家的核心文献
在过去的几十年里,人文学科以越来越快的速度积累了越来越多的文献。这将如何影响他们的传统组织进入其中的学科和研究领域?这篇文章考虑历史,通过检查引用网络在最近的专著对威尼斯的历史。由此产生的网络几乎是相连的,根据特定的学科领域(历史,建筑史,艺术史)或时间段(中世纪,早期近代史,现代史)可以识别专著集群,并绘制了该领域近期趋势的地图。最值得注意的是,一组被高度引用的作品成为威尼斯历史学家的核心文献。这些核心文献包括原始资料、参考文献和学术专著的混合,对于保持该领域的联系非常重要:专著通常引用少数核心作品和各种不太被引用的作品的组合。核心的第一手资料和参考著作永远不会过时,而核心的学术专著却以非常缓慢的速度被新的著作所取代。随着时间的推移,新出版物对核心文献的依赖正在缓慢上升,因为该领域变得越来越多样化。
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