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Philosophy of history after 1945 : a bibliometric study

Berber Bevernage (UGent) , Gisele Iecker de Almeida, Broos Delanote (UGent) , Anton Froeyman (UGent) , Patty Huijbers (UGent) and Kenan Van De Mieroop (UGent)
(2019) HISTORY AND THEORY. 58(3). p.406-436
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Much has been said about what philosophy of history should be. This bibliometric assessment of research in the philosophy of history examines what scholars in this field have actually produced. The study covers a dataset-a subsection of the bibliography of the International Network for Theory of History-of 13,953 books, articles, book chapters, dissertations, and other scholarly publications, encompassing materials written in seven different languages published between 1945 and 2014. This material was classified according to a multilayered system of taxonomy consisting of keywords representative of themes discussed in the field. Separate quantitative analyses were made to elucidate characteristics about the publication outputs in the field in the different language groups. Changes in paradigm, often referred to as "turns" or "trends," have been mapped in this study, according to a quantitative analysis of the most recurrent keywords within a five-year interval, which give an indication of the most debated themes in each period. *Religion/theology/secularization* is the most frequent keyword during the period 1945 to 1969, followed by *Marxism/historical-materialism*(1) from 1970 to 1984, in what can be considered a second period of the field. Although many of the key publications of the linguistic turn were written within this second period, our dataset shows that it is not until the third period (1985-2014) that their writing goes on to influence other authors in the field.
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Philosophy, History, bibliometrics, philosophy of history, periodization, paradigms, quantitative analysis, history of philosophy of history, trends in philosophy of history, HISTORIOGRAPHY

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MLA
Bevernage, Berber, et al. “Philosophy of History after 1945 : A Bibliometric Study.” HISTORY AND THEORY, vol. 58, no. 3, 2019, pp. 406–36, doi:10.1111/hith.12124.
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Bevernage, B., Iecker de Almeida, G., Delanote, B., Froeyman, A., Huijbers, P., & Van De Mieroop, K. (2019). Philosophy of history after 1945 : a bibliometric study. HISTORY AND THEORY, 58(3), 406–436. https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12124
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Bevernage, Berber, Gisele Iecker de Almeida, Broos Delanote, Anton Froeyman, Patty Huijbers, and Kenan Van De Mieroop. 2019. “Philosophy of History after 1945 : A Bibliometric Study.” HISTORY AND THEORY 58 (3): 406–36. https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12124.
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Bevernage, Berber, Gisele Iecker de Almeida, Broos Delanote, Anton Froeyman, Patty Huijbers, and Kenan Van De Mieroop. 2019. “Philosophy of History after 1945 : A Bibliometric Study.” HISTORY AND THEORY 58 (3): 406–436. doi:10.1111/hith.12124.
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Bevernage B, Iecker de Almeida G, Delanote B, Froeyman A, Huijbers P, Van De Mieroop K. Philosophy of history after 1945 : a bibliometric study. HISTORY AND THEORY. 2019;58(3):406–36.
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B. Bevernage, G. Iecker de Almeida, B. Delanote, A. Froeyman, P. Huijbers, and K. Van De Mieroop, “Philosophy of history after 1945 : a bibliometric study,” HISTORY AND THEORY, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 406–436, 2019.
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