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Simon TannerKing’s College London
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Investigating the REF 2014 as another means of understanding academic
books:Focus on Modern Languages,
English and History
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Project team: Samantha Rayner, Nick Canty & Rebecca Lyons (UCL), Simon Tanner & Marilyn Deegan (KCL) Michael Jubb as key consultant Project Board Chair: Kathryn Sutherland, Oxford
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Investigating the REF2014
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REF 2014 submissions provides a rich data set as a means of learning more about the academic books created and deemed worthy of submission in the last REF cycle (2009-2014).
Focus = Main Panel D for Arts and Humanities. Within this Panel the data can be investigated by Unit of Assessment Subject Area and by Research Output Type.
Likely outcomes:Allow an identification of who are the publishers of the book submissionsOther possibilities:- author gender, book format/length etc, books per submitting institution, open access booksResults may stimulate discourseCaveats abound...
REF 2014: Proportion of Output Type by Subject Area Panel
Initial draft data – subject to change © Simon Tanner, 2015
REF 2014: Comparing Modern Languages, English & History
Modern Languages & Linguistics
English Language & Literature
History
Initial draft data – subject to change © Simon Tanner, 2015
REF 2014: Comparing Subjects with Varied Output Types
Communication, Cultural & Media Studies, Library & Information Management
Music, Drama, Dance & Performing Arts
Art & Design: History, Practice and Theory Initial draft data – subject to change © Simon Tanner, 2015
REF 2014: Looking at Unit of Assessment 30: History
1657 Books in the following output types Authored Books (1320), Edited Books (290) and Scholarly Editions (47)
295 unique Publishers found
Top 10 most used Publishers = 930 books or 56%
258 Publishers (87%) had 5 or fewerbooks submitted
171 Publishers (57%) had one book submitted – mostly non-UK
761 books submitted (46%) were from a University Press. Outside the top 5 these were
mostly non-UK publishers.
Initial draft data – subject to change © Simon Tanner, 2015
Publishers with >10 books submitted
213 Oxford University Press162 Cambridge University Press143 Palgrave Macmillan98 Manchester University Press74 Ashgate70 Routledge52 Boydell & Brewer51 Yale University Press40 Brill Academic Publishers27 Continuum International Publishing27 Edinburgh University Press21 I B Tauris21 Pickering & Chatto20 Harvard University Press19 Bloomsbury Publishing16 Penguin14 Allen Lane14 British Academy/Oxford University Press14 Liverpool University Press14 University of Wales Press12 University of Chicago Press11 Reaktion Books
REF 2014: Looking at Unit of Assessment 29:English Language and Literature
2220 Books in the following output types Authored Books (1684), Edited Books (397) and Scholarly Editions (139)
385 unique Publishers found
Initial draft data – subject to change © Simon Tanner, 2015
29: English Language & literature: A: Authored Books Publishers
The shape of the data is a Long Tail
REF 2014: Looking at Unit of Assessment 29:English Language and Literature
A: Authored Books = 313 Publishers There are 23 Publishers with
more than 10 books submitted
Top 10 most used Publishers = 835 books or ~49%
267 Publishers had 5 or fewerbooks submitted
178 Publishers had one book submitted
59 Publishers are a University Press.
Initial draft data – subject to change © Simon Tanner, 2015
158 Palgrave Macmillan130 Oxford University Press124 Cambridge University Press81 Edinburgh University Press76 Routledge64 Ashgate60 Bloomsbury Publishing56 Continuum47 Manchester University Press39 Faber & Faber26 Liverpool University Press25 Jonathan Cape25 Picador24 Salt Publishing23 Carcanet Press21 Penguin Books18 Peter Lang18 Seren18 University of Wales Press16 Wiley Blackwell13 Shearsman Books12 Bloodaxe Books11 Pickering & Chatto
REF 2014: Looking at Unit of Assessment 29:English Language and Literature
B: Edited Books = 97 Publishers There are 8 Publishers with
10 or more books submitted
Top 10 most used Publishers = 234 books or ~59%
81 Publishers listed had 5 or fewerbooks submitted
53 Publishers had one book submitted
22 Publishers are a University Press.
Initial draft data – subject to change © Simon Tanner, 2015
49 Palgrave Macmillan43 Cambridge University Press39 Oxford University Press23 Manchester University Press21 Ashgate19 Pickering & Chatto14 Routledge10 Continuum
REF 2014: Looking at Unit of Assessment 29:English Language and Literature
R: Scholarly Editions = 51 Publishers There are 3 Publishers with
more than 10 books submitted
Top 10 most used Publishers = 83 books or ~63%
48 Publishers had 5 or fewerbooks submitted
33 Publishers had one book submitted
11 Publisher are a University Press.
Initial draft data – subject to change © Simon Tanner, 2015
25 Oxford University Press22 Pickering & Chatto15 Cambridge University Press4 Brepols4 Broadview Press3 Four Courts Press3 Modern Humanities Research Association3 Penguin Books
REF 2014: Looking at Unit of Assessment 28:Modern Languages and Linguistics
1055 Books in the following output types Authored Books (760), Edited Books (237) and Scholarly Editions (56)
332 unique Publishers found
Initial draft data – subject to change © Simon Tanner, 2015
28: Modern Languages and Linguistics : A: Authored Books Publishers
REF 2014: Looking at Unit of Assessment 28: Modern Languages and Linguistics
A: Authored Books = 249 Publishers There are 13 Publishers with
more than 10 books submitted
Top 10 most used Publishers = 311 books or ~41%
227 Publishers had 5 or fewerbooks submitted (~91%)
165 Publishers had one book submitted (~66%)
44 Publishers are a University Press(or similar)
Initial draft data – subject to change © Simon Tanner, 2015
53 Palgrave Macmillan50 Oxford University Press40 Peter Lang37 Legenda29 Cambridge University Press27 University of Wales Press
22Manchester University Press
21 Routledge17 Edinburgh University Press15 Continuum15 Liverpool University Press14 Tamesis Books13 Ashgate9 Bloomsbury Publishing9 Rodopi8 Camden House
8Modern Humanities Research Association
7 Reaktion Books6 De Gruyter6 I. B. Tauris6 Polity Press6 Shaun Tyas
REF 2014: Looking at Unit of Assessment 28:Modern Languages and Linguistics
B: Edited Books = 109 Publishers There are 4 Publishers with
10 or more books submitted
Top 10 most used Publishers = 93 books or ~39%
74 Publishers had one book submitted
16 Publishers are a University Press.
Initial draft data – subject to change © Simon Tanner, 2015
14 Routledge11 Berghahn11 Edinburgh University Press11 Peter Lang9 Camden House8 Cambridge University Press8 Tamesis Books
7Manchester University Press
7 Oxford University Press7 Palgrave Macmillan
REF 2014: Looking at Unit of Assessment 28:Modern Languages and Linguistics
R: Scholarly Editions = 33 Publishers There is 1 Publisher with 10 books submitted
Top 10 most used Publishers = 34 books or ~61%
25 Publishers had one book submitted
5 Publisher are a University Press.
Initial draft data – subject to change © Simon Tanner, 2015
10Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies
5 Gallimard5 University of Wales Press4 Droz2 CMCS Publications2 D S Brewer
2Modern Humanities Research Association
2 Peter Lang
REF 2014: Looking at Unit of Assessment 28:Modern Languages and Linguistics
Double Weighting 199 books proposed for double weighting out of the 1055
submitted
Languages Used Data contradictory?
Only 32 books registered as “non-English”
Welsh and Gaelic was not generally submitted as “non-English”
Other bibliographic data suggests that approximately: 81% submitted with English
as primary language 6% French 5% German 2% Welsh and Gaelic 2% Spanish Initial draft data – subject to change © Simon
Tanner, 2015
English ; Catalan English ; French English ; French ; German ; Greek, Modern
(1453-) ; Hebrew English ; French ; Greek, Modern (1453-) ;
Irish English ; French ; Italian ; Spanish English ; French ; Spanish English ; French, Old (842-ca.1400) English ; Gaelic English ; Gaelic ; Irish English ; German English ; German ; French English ; Greek, Ancient (to 1453) English ; Irish English ; Italian English ; Latin English ; Latin ; Welsh English ; Mon-Khmer languages ; Burmese ;
Chinese English ; Portuguese ; Spanish English ; Provenal, Old (to 1500) English ; Romance languages English ; Romany English ; Russian English ; Semitic languages English ; Spanish English ; Welsh
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