The death of the scholarly monograph in the humanities? Citation patterns in literary scholarship

A significant effect of the crisis in academic publishing is the decline in publication and purchase of the scholarly mono-graph in the humanities. As library collections of monographs in the humanities continue to shrink, humanities scholars are clearly confronting difficult challenges in performing and publishing their research. Analysis of viable solutions to the publishing crisis in general, and in the humanities in particular, requires concrete information about the current state of academic publishing. The purpose of this study is to provide some insight, through citation analysis, into current patterns of scholarly publishing in the field of nineteenth-century British and American literary studies. Emerging and shifting publication formats, currency in secondary mate-rials, and existing core groups of authors, works, journals, and publishers were evaluated