What publications are featured on Fragments of Cultural Change?

The site lists a "Selected publications" section with three journal articles, each tied to Folgert Karsdorp's work on cultural change, diversity, and historical collections. The entries include venue and year, with DOIs for two of them, plus a link to a fuller publication list.

The three featured publications

What each one covers

• Correcting collection bias in comparative studies of diversity — addresses a methodological problem: historical and comparative collections are unevenly assembled, which can distort diversity comparisons. Useful if you work with biased or incomplete cultural datasets.
• Saved in Translation? Estimating latent diversity shared by historic cultures — uses medieval French and Dutch literature as a case to estimate diversity that may be shared across cultures but not directly visible in surviving sources.
• Forgotten Books: The Application of Unseen Species Models to the Survival of Culture — applies unseen species models (borrowed from ecology) to estimate how much cultural material has been lost and how much survives.

How to use the page

1. Open the "Selected publications" section on the homepage.
2. Read the title, venue, and year for each entry to judge relevance.
3. Follow the [doi] link where present to reach the article record.
4. Use the "All publications" link for the complete list beyond these three.

Common snags

• Not every entry has a DOI link — the 2026 collection-bias paper shows no [doi] in the listed evidence, so you may need to search the venue directly.
• The page shows only a selection, not the full output; "All publications" is the place to go for anything not listed here.
• Years shown (2026, 2022) reflect the site's own listing, so treat them as the site's stated publication dates.