A case study in authorship attribution: The Mondrigo1

In this paper, we present authorship attribution methods applied to ¡El Mondrigo! (1968), a controversial text supposedly created by order of the Mexican Government to defame a student strike. Up to now, although the authorship of the book has been attributed to several journalists and writers, it could not be demonstrated and remains an open problem. The work aims at establishing which one of the most commonly attributed writers is the real author. To do that, we implement methods based on stylometric features using textual distance, supervised, and unsupervised learning. The distance-based methods implemented in this work are Kilgarriff and Delta of Burrows, an SVM algorithm is used as the supervised method, and the k-means algorithm as the unsupervised algorithm. The applied methods were consistent by pointing out a single author as the most likely one.

Webology: An Analysis of Citation Pattern

Efforts were made to analyze 5807 citations of Webology published during 2004 to 2019. The citations were classified on the basis of type of material which clearly indicates that periodicals and web resources were the most popular type of resources used by the authors for writing research papers. The study found that out of 5807 citations 2580 citations were authored by the single author and single authorship pattern was found as the most popular authorship pattern among the authors. The study founds the two oldest citations were from the books which were published before 1900. The findings of the study show the notable change in the use of type of resources being used for writing the research papers. The results of the study shoes that use the of periodicals and web resources for writing research papers was increased from 1951 and onward. The study also presented the list of the twenty five highly cited journals, ten highly cited authors, fifteen highly cited web links and five highly cited books.

Athenaeus and Hellenistic Epigram

I explore the distribution of Athenaeus’ citations of Hellenistic epigrams, in what sort of texts he found them, and whether he knew Meleager’s Garland. Listing poems cited, I note as absent Asclepiades, Dioscorides, Leonidas, and Meleager. I suggest Athenaeus knew either single-author books or a collection of all or many of some poets’ epigrams. Reviewing hypotheses about such a collection (probably of Poseidippus, Asclepiades and Hedylus), I propose that Athenaeus spotted Hedylus on encountering the three-author collection, then turned to single-author editions of two of these poets, Poseidippus and Hedylus, citing poems either that Meleager chanced not to select or that he knew not to be in his Garland.

Trees in the landscape: orchard trees in a 17th-century French dictionary

The 17th century was a time of change in both agriculture and architecture as both nobility and newly rich bourgeois sought to embellish country residences with gardens and orchards. Not only were new plants arriving from overseas, but gardening was being revolutionised by the likes of Le Nôtre, de la Quintinie and the lesser known Fatio. This was reflected in the Dictionnaire universel de Antoine Furetière, the first genuinely encyclopaedic dictionary. This paper starts by introducing the LandLex initiative, pan-European synchronic and diachronic collaborative analyses of simple words concerning the landscape in historical dictionaries. We then look at a selected number of orchard trees and their fruit in two editions of the Dictionnaire universel: the first edition of 1690 and that revised by Basnage de Beauval in 1701. To an extent, Furetière applied a model for classifying trees and fruit that can be extracted by analysis. Some entries went into excessive detail as those of pear, a highly fashionable fruit at the time. One major difference between the two is Basnage’s move from a single author approach to the use of field experts in certain areas, amongst which botany. Much was simply carried over, but when Dr Régis, Basnage’s expert in medicine and natural history, deemed an entry of scientific interest it was given a rewrite with new background texts being cited, thereby widening our vision of developing 17th-century science.

Change and consistency in Acta Radiologica over 100 years

Acta Radiologica celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2021. In this article, the foundation of the journal and its editors are described. During 100 years, the manuscript structure changed from single-author verbose monographs to multi-author collaborations on statistically analyzed research subjects. The authorship changed from purely Nordic authors to a truly international cadre of authors, and the size of the journal increased considerably, in issues per year, printed pages, and published articles per year. The Foundation of Acta Radiologica has been able to give out two prizes, the Xenia Forsselliana and the Acta Radiologica International Scientific Prize for the best manuscripts each year. The increasing submissions of manuscripts is an indication that Acta Radiologica will continue to publish important scientific results for many years to come.

Editorial

Being an academic researcher implies making several decisions in the course of one’s career. For instance, what topic to investigate, which methodology to use, where to study and test the hypotheses, whether to cover as many topics as possible or concentrate on a specific line of research, where to submit and publish the finished articles, etc. Yet another important decision is to decide whether to work as a single author or as part of a team, which is the focus of this editorial.

In Defence of New Testament Satanologies: A Response to Farrar and Williams

Satan is a key figure in many New Testament books. The authors of these books build on hugely diverse Second Temple traditions and themes. A recurring trend in New Testament Satanology is to assume or argue for a monolithic image of Satan throughout the New Testament. This trend is seen, most recently, in Farrar and Williams’s (2016) argument for a distinct, coherent Satanology, published in this journal. Such a uniform New Testament Satanology is untenable: there is only evidence of New Testament Satanologies. Within the 27 books of the New Testament, and indeed within works of a single author, various – sometimes almost contradictory – Satanologies are evident. As such, the New Testament authors continue the Second Temple trend of diverse Satan traditions, and any examination of Satan should keep this front and centre.

Evolución de la colaboración científica en la Psicología española entre 1970 y 1989

El objetivo de la presente investigación es analizar la evolución de la colaboración científica en la psicología española a través de trabajos firmados por un autor o autora perteneciente a una institución española de psicología entre 1970 y 1989. Se analizaron un total de 2891 trabajos publicados en 29 revistas de psicología entre los años 1970 y 1989, analizando la colaboración científica a través del estudio de redes mediante el programa UCINET y el software Netdraw. Los resultados indican que a lo largo de los años se produce un aumento del número de trabajos, autores y firmas, así como de la colaboración científica, siendo en el periodo entre 1985 y 1989 cuando los trabajos en coautoría superan al número de trabajos firmados por un solo autor. Se muestra que el número de autores, así como de los grupos de colaboracion aumentan a lo largo de los años estudiados. Se puede concluir que es en la segunda mitad de la década de los años 80 cuando se produce un aumento considerable de la colaboración científica en la psicología española. The objective of this research is to analyse the evolution of scientific collaboration within Spanish psychology through papers signed by an author who belonged to a Spanish institution of psychology between 1970 and 1989. We analysed a total of 2891 papers published in 29 journals of psychology between 1970 and 1989, examining the scientific collaboration through network analysis, using the UCINET program and Netdraw software. The results indicated that there has been an increased number of papers, authors and signatures over the years, as well as an increased scientific collaboration. Between 1985 and 1989, co-authored papers overcame single-author papers. It is shown that the number of authors, as well as of collaboration groups, increased over the years under study. It can be concluded that it was in the second half of the 1980s when scientific collaboration within Spanish psychology increased considerably.

Effects of IL-7 on sepsis: a systematic review

Objective: The aim of this systematic review to evaluate the effects and possible therapeutic relevance of interleukin-7, a novel immunoadjuvant agent, against sepsis. Data Sources: We have searched PubMed, Scopus, LILACS and SciELO for any study which had IL-7 as intervention for sepsis. Study Selection: For each source, a single author was chosen to select all studies based on title and abstract. The remaining two authors then proceeded to read the complete text for relevance assessment. Results: Eleven sources were retrieved, consisting of six studies performed on animals, four on ex vivo human cells, and a single clinical trial. Several parameters were evaluated and reported, such as improved animal survival (3 trials; n= 264); improved cell count, activation, cytokine secretion, proliferation and survival; and higher patient CD4+ and CD8+ lymphocyte count (1 trial; n= 27). Major limitations were the heterogeneity of studies and the complexity of sepsis presentation. Data Extraction: Any data related to IL-7 intervention in septic patients was extracted. Animal and in vitro data was chosen according to outcomes in either overall survival or immune response markers. The data extraction from each study was conducted by a single author and then revised by the other two. Bias was assessed by all three authors together, without any specific methodology. Conclusions: Although IL-7 as a potential therapy option for sepsis still requires further investigation and clinical evaluation, current studies show promising results of how the interleukin could act against the disorder.