Journal article
Network analysis of the social and demographic influences on name choice within the UK (1838-2016)
- Abstract:
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Chosen names reflect changes in societal values, personal tastes and cultural diversity. Vogues in name usage can be easily shown on a case by case basis, by plotting the rise and fall in their popularity over time. However, individual name choices are not made in isolation and trends in naming are better understood as group-level phenomena. Here we use network analysis to examine onomastic (name) datasets in order to explore the influences on name choices within the UK over the last 170 year...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS One Journal website
- Volume:
- 13
- Issue:
- 10
- Pages:
- e0205759
- Publication date:
- 2018-10-31
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-10-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1932-6203
- ISSN:
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1932-6203
- Pmid:
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30379928
- Source identifiers:
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938374
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:938374
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- Local pid:
- pubs:938374
- Deposit date:
- 2018-11-14
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- Copyright holder:
- Bush et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- © 2018 Bush et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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