Comparison of Big Data from the two Anpuh Journals or Introduction to Open Science for Historians

Abstract

This paper analyzes the full corpus of Revista História Hoje (2012-2020) and the corpus of Revista Brasileira de História in the same period using the method of diachronic confrontation of written sources by semantic-temporal networks and an algorithm developed by the first two authors. Its main conclusions are the rise of the use of the words “classroom” and “consciousness” in RHHJ and the words “national” and “America” in RBH and the fall of the use of the words “new” and “ancient” in RHHJ and the words “work”, “process” and “government” in RBH. We can also highlight the sudden rise of the words “rights” and “human” in RHHJ and the words “ancient” and “antiquity” in RBH. The paper works as an introduction to open science for historians because it describes in detail the open science protocols used in this historical research, it demonstrates how other researchers could use its data, methods, workflows and protocols to replicate it or to conduct other research than this. It also indicates how all of this enables scientific reproducibility in the human-ities.