Inscriptions are defined as traces of scientific research production that are embodied in material artifacts and media, which encompass a wide variety of nonverbal forms such as graphs, diagrams, and tables. Inscription serves as a fundamental rhetorical device in research outputs and practices. As many inscriptions are deeply rooted in a scientific research paradigm, they can be used to evaluate the level of scientificity of a scientific field. This is specifically helpful to understand the relationships between research traditions in digital humanities (DH), a highly cross-disciplinary between various humanities and scientific traditions. This paper presents a quantitative, community-focused examination of how inscriptions are used in English-language research articles in DH journals. We randomly selected 252 articles published between 2011 and 2020 from a representative DH journal list, and manually classified the inscriptions and author domains in these publications. We found that inscriptions have been increasingly used during the past decade, and their uses are more intensive in publications led by STEM authors comparing to other domains. This study offers a timely survey of the disciplinary landscape of DH from the perspective of inscriptions and sheds light on how different research approaches collaborate and combat in the field of DH.

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作为跨学科战场的数字人文：对期刊出版物中的铭文的检查

铭文被定义为体现在物质制品和媒体中的科学研究生产的痕迹，包括各种非语言形式，如图形、图表和表格。铭文是研究成果和实践中的基本修辞手段。由于许多铭文深深植根于一种科学研究范式，它们可以用来评估一个科学领域的科学性水平。这对于理解数字人文 (DH) 研究传统之间的关系特别有帮助，数字人文 (DH) 是各种人文学科和科学传统之间高度跨学科的学科。本文对 DH 期刊的英语研究文章中如何使用铭文进行了以社区为中心的定量研究。我们从具有代表性的 DH 期刊列表中随机选择了 2011 年至 2020 年间发表的 252 篇文章，并手动对这些出版物中的铭文和作者领域进行了分类。我们发现，在过去十年中，铭文的使用越来越多，与其他领域相比，它们在 STEM 作者领导的出版物中的使用更加密集。本研究从铭文的角度对 DH 的学科格局进行了及时的调查，并阐明了不同的研究方法如何在 DH 领域进行合作和对抗。