Language Science Press BlogWe started our annual retrospectives in 2015 (2016 here). This is the third installment, for 2017.
In 2017, we published 26 books:
99 works were proposed to Language Science Press in 2017, for a total of 324. The curve is now slightly superlinear.
Book proposals over time. The linear fit is based on the interval between 2014-03-01 and 2017-12-31.
The following figure gives a breakdown of the distribution of these works and their states of completion.
OAPEN has recently sent us the access statistics for the last year. OAPEN is a repository for open access books. All our books are listed there, in addition to our OMP platform.
It is interesting to see in how far one or the other platform is used, and how the differences could be explained. The raw data are given below.
| The future of dialects | 16137 |
| Grammatical theory | 7081 |
| New directions in corpus-based translation studies | 3798 |
| Einführung in die grammatische Beschreibung des Deutschen | 2981 |
| The Alor-Pantar languages: History and typology | 2546 |
| Natural causes of language | 2332 |
| The empirical base of linguistics | 2197 |
| Roots of language | 2066 |
| Advances in the study of Siouan languages and linguistics | 1795 |
| Einführung in die grammatische Beschreibung des Deutschen² | 1717 |
| Linguistic variation, identity construction and cognition | 1431 |
| Thoughts on grammaticalization | 1397 |
| Adjective attribution | 1291 |
| The evolution of grounded spatial language | 1216 |
| A grammar of Yakkha | 1192 |
| Eyetracking and Applied Linguistics | 1125 |
| A grammar of Palula | 1057 |
| The Talking Heads experiment | 941 |
| Syntax und Valenz | 933 |
| The evolution of case grammar | 889 |
| Die Sprachwissenschaft | 836 |
| A grammar of Pite Saami | 763 |
| Language strategies for the domain of colour | 729 |
| How mobile robots can self-organise a vocabulary | 712 |
| A grammar of Mauwake | 651 |
| Prosodic detail in Neapolitan Italian | 605 |
| Grammaticalization in the North | 568 |
| A typology of marked-S languages | 501 |
2015 has been the first complete year for Language Science Press since the beginning of operations in early 2014. There is now enough data to run some analyses.
Up and until 2015-12-31, 139 works have been proposed to
Language Science Press. the following figure gives a breakdown of the
distribution of these works and their states of completion.
Works with Language Science Press. The colour code is as follows: Black=expression of interest, light red=desk rejection; orange=waiting for submission; grey=under review red=rejected after review; light green=forthcoming; dark green=published.
Since we setup the new servers at CeDiS, we track our usage stats. In this blogpost, I will give some technical details, discuss some conceptual issues and finish with some mathematical remarks.
We run Apache as a web server. The logs are analyzed and aggregated with awstats. Awstats also takes care of separating “real users/readers” from “machine readers” (bots). Including the bots would artificially inflate our reader numbers, so it is good to exclude them.
Cumulative downloads for all published books until 07/2105
In the past, we tracked access with a spreadsheet, but we now use an automated routine which parses the awstats output, aggregates access data per book and produces graphics for each book and then again for all books combined (using python, beautiful soup and matplotlib). Continue reading
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We have done an analysis of our log files. The following statistics show how often complete books were downloaded in the months of August and September. October will follow later. Crawlers were excluded. Breakdown by books Joshua Wilbur’s “A grammar … Continue reading