Single Author Research Articles

Michelle O’Callaghan. Crafting Poetry Anthologies in Renaissance England: Early Modern Cultures of Recreation.

Scholarship on English Renaissance poetics has tended to centre on formal literary-critical treatises and rhetorical handbooks from the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean period. Yet, as Michelle O’Callaghan’s meticulous, compelling study argues, an alternative but equally vibrant site for debates about what constitutes poetic making is found in the poetry anthologies that emerge in the latter sixteenth century as a recognizable and distinct kind of printed book. In their contents and paratexts, printed lyric anthologies theorize and materialize competing kinds of lyric making, understood here as a manual craft, a learnt and evolving skill not restricted to the creative labour of single authors but instead performed by a host of other agents—compilers, editors, and printers—who develop their craft ‘through pragmatic modes of imitation’ (p. 12) and whose creative design in organizing poetic parts into composite wholes manifests a techne analogous to the poet’s inventions (pp. 43–4). The lyric craft of these anthologies is ‘recreative’ (p. 3) in the dual sense of a pleasurable, reinvigorating pastime (the reader’s recreation) and an artisanal process of making again in new contexts beyond the confines of the physical anthology, in households, commonplace books, songbooks, and the ballad trade (the poem’s re-creation). English poetry anthologies of this period are invitingly multimodal, ‘embodied through re-creative performance’ (p. 19) that cuts across class and gendered readerships: lyrics are embodied on the page but re-embodied as soundscapes in new, often more evanescent settings—to be imitated and parodied, vocalized as speech, sung to a tune, or performed in plays (Vaux’s ‘I lothe that I did love’ is famously reanimated on stage by Hamlet’s gravedigger). So, this monograph is a study both of practices of crafting and habits of reading: singing, browsing, and commonplacing are all manifestations of a ‘recreational poetics’ (p. 228).

Latviešu dzejas kopkrājumi lietuviešu valodā

Three major ways how Latvian poetry reaches Lithuanian readers exist: 1) translations in periodical and serial publications, almanacs, 2) translated books of single Latvian authors, 3) translations making up collections of various kinds and profiles. The aim of the present research, which may be called research conducted in a traditional comparative manner, is to reveal the chronology of the third way as well as its main characteristics. The article covers seven major and several minor sources; poetry collections, such as “A Muse Approaches from the Daugava” (Lith. “Mūza ateina nuo Dauguvos”, 1963), “The Bells” (Lith. “Varpai”, 1968), “We Arrived in This World” (Lith. “Mes atėjome į šį pasaulį”, 1983), “Spring Will Come as Usual” (Lith. “Pavasaris bus kaip visuomet”, 2012) and “A Ball Lightning into the Soul” (Lith. “Rutulinis žaibas į sielą” (2019), are considered to be the most significant ones. The work of the compilers and translators of the collections is assessed, also introducing the most active, best representatives in the field: Kostas Korsakas (1909–1986), Arvydas Valionis (b. 1945), Erika Drungytė (b. 1971). One of the main conclusions of the article: collections of Latvian poetry published in the Lithuanian language most extensively reflect creative pieces by poets who lived and live in Latvia in the second half of the 20th–21st centuries; Latvian diaspora is less represented, and poetry of the 19th–first half of the 20th centuries is represented even less, except for poems by Jānis Rainis (real name Jānis Pliekšāns, 1865–1929).

Journal of Information Science: A gender-based bibliometric study (2015–2020)

Scientific publication is one of the main channels for disseminating research results and one of the most important means of determining the presence of women in scientific research. This article aims to conduct a bibliometric analysis in the Library and Information Science (LIS) field, from a gender perspective, by analysing Journal of Information Science (2015–2020). To reach this goal, the research has been developed in several stages (data collection, gender authors’ identification, validation of authorities, contact by email and analysis of results) to identify 326 contributions and 697 authors finally. Analysis patterns showed outcomes on gender (single and multiple authors), scientific collaboration, authorship time-course, authorship productivity as well as institutional and geographic affiliation. Some conclusions show that male and female authors are not equally represented in the journal, with a great difference in the case of collective authorship. Overall, there is a clear trend of single and multiple male authorship.

The Condition of Music: Anglophone Influences in the Poetry of Shao Xunmei

The Condition of Music: Anglophone Influences in the Poetry of Shao Xunmei

Neurological Disorders in Literary Fiction: A Single Author Case Series.

Across literary fiction, allusions to medical ailments are common. However, in the bibliography of Stephen King, neurological disorders appear to be present disproportionately. The objective of this study is to describe the epidemiology of neurologic disorders depicted in the writings of Stephen King. This study presents data from Stephen King's 60 published novels. The frequency, prevalence, lethality, and mortality of each neurological diagnosis found in the characters that appear in the novels are reported. Forty-eight novels portrayed at least one character with a neurological diagnosis, and in total, 150 characters exhibited a neurological condition. The overall prevalence was 111.2 per 1,000 characters. Their median age was 20 years (range 76), and 61.7% were males. Headache was the most common symptom (35.3%), followed by stroke symptoms in 28.7%. Prevalence was 24.5, 17.8 for headache and epilepsy, respectively. Lethality was 28.7%. The overall mortality rate was 31.9. The epidemiology described in Stephen King's novels parallels that of the real world. The depiction of neurological disorders found in his novels showcases the elevated contribution of neurological disorders to the global burden of the disease, an important message for the readers of his fiction and interest to all neurologists.

Foreword to Zisl's God, The God of Unmet Desire

Foreword to Zisl's God, The God of Unmet Desire S. Brent Rodríguez-Plate, Editor Toward the end of these pages, Zisl discloses the functions of tefillah, saying such prayer teaches us to "mourn our brokenness and beg for the divine." Provocatively, Zisl compares prayer to eroticism, as both are practices of yearning and desiring, spurred by awareness of our own incompleteness. These are not activities that stay within designated times and places. Rather, their practice infiltrates all our lives and opens the way for "creative possibilities." I might add to this a third parallel, already implicit throughout Zisl's text, and that is the work of writing. Writing remembers what was, and reveals what might be. Writing gives accounts that bring forth justice. Writing strives for redemption. It weeps and it laughs. Its imperfections abound, and yet within the words we catch fleeting encounters with others that intimate wholeness, holiness. Zisl's text that follows here is tefillah, and we the readers participate (erotically and prayerfully) in mourning and begging, the work of repair and rediscovery, as we assemble our own pasts and futures. It is a creative work of nonfiction, emerging at the interstices of queer theology, Talmudic learning, social justice, and personal memoir. It brings the past to bear on the future, and the future on the past. When Zisl first approached me with their essay, I realized this would be ideal for our journal CrossCurrents, since it checks so many of the boxes that define our publishing output: creative work, engaged with issues of social justice, and rooted in religious tradition. The only problem was that the text was too lengthy to be just another article in our pages, while breaking it up felt like missing the integrity of the whole work. So, we created a special, special issue, something we've never done here at CrossCurrents. We're devoting this entire issue to a single work of a single author. The fact that we can print each journal issue as a stand-alone book made this an opportunity we wanted to take [End Page V] advantage of and we were thrilled when Zisl agreed to work with us on the venture. God, The God of Unmet Desire reflects the deep learning and yearning of its author, interpreting ancient Hebrew liturgy through Black diasporic poetry or feminist science fiction to wrestle with individual and social quests for racial, economic, and gender liberation. Thus, it translates ancient meanings via modern social life. Even so, it remains resolutely traditional. There's an apology in here, an argument for a God, and a relationship with that God who is expansive, who revels in words and wonders, who delights in sex and sensuality, who cares for the oppressed and desires liberation. As I read and re-read Zisl's text during the process of editing, I kept thinking about width, wideness. The text opens and closes with a passage from Psalm 81, "Open wide your mouth . . ." If you close your mouth, you'll miss the honey. So, open wide. I worked through the text, opening myself to something new, attempting to make clear the varieties of voices that emerge and ink-bleed through the white pages. In the process, I had to think about width in a very physical way. How wide are the margins? How much indentation to give a passage? Is a block of text centered? Flush right? Flush left? Do the quotes from others have the same indentation as the author's own voice? How much width should there be in the text and in the margins? Voices vary and, in print, width makes those distinctions clearer. I was reminded of pages of the Talmud in which the mishnah is placed at the center, gemara extending that below, and then Rashi and other commentaries circling and swirling around the center. What a feat of production it must be to produce such a work! So much of it comes down to width: to the ratio of text to other text, as well as the white space surrounding the text. Margins in any book are key because that's where the reader engages, jots notes, queries, or just...

Bibliometric Study of Educational Production in Iberoamerica

The bibliometric study of scientific production in the field of education that has been carried out in Ibero-American countries between 2000 and 2020 and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) database of the Web of Science (WoS) is presented. 4786 documents have been analyzed using bibliometric techniques, finding a considerable increase in scientific production, with Brazil being the country with the highest production. Likewise, the distribution of the magazines in Bradford zones was determined, noting that the core is made up of two journals, the first published in Latin America and the second in Spain. There was evidence of a decline in single authorship in documents and an increase in international collaboration, reaching in 2000 percentages like those of national collaboration. Through this study, production patterns and trends have been identified, as well as the main channels for disseminating research in the field of education in Ibero-America.

Bibliometric Analysis of HIV/AIDS Research Publication Trends in Uganda from 1982 to 2020

Background: The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic continues to be a major global health concern, with approximately 38 million people living with the disease, with over two-thirds of those (25.4 million) living in the WHO African Region. In 2020, 680,000 people will die from HIV-related causes, while 1.5 million will acquire the virus. Bibliometric methodologies were used to investigate and analyze the scientific research development on HIV/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in Uganda. Methods: A comprehensive retrospective bibliometric analysis was performed on HIV/AIDS literature in Uganda published from 1982 until 2020 and was retrieved using Harzing’s Publish or Perish. We extracted the publications from the Google Scholar database. To ensure all retrieved publications address HIV/AIDS issues in Uganda, a search strategy with "HIV" or "AIDS" and "Uganda" as keywords was performed using the keywords field to refine the results. Results: A total of 446 publications were selected and used. The findings indicated that Relative Growth Rate (RGR) had increased from 0.29 (1996) to 3.40 (2020) with some fluctuations between the years, with a decreasing trend from 2.39 (1996) to 0.20 (2020) with slight fluctuations between the years. The majority of publications (60.3 percent) were written by a single author, with the remainder (15.2%) written collaboratively by two writers.More than half (59.64%) of the publications were cited at least once. In Uganda, research on HIV/AIDS is mostly published by international journal publishers rather than African journal publishers. Journals of medicine-related titles have the most articles published about HIV/AIDS research in Uganda, while gender-related journals have the least. Conclusion: According to the findings, in Uganda, HIV/AIDS researchers generally collaborated poorly, and researchers tended to publish more with Francis and Taylor, Springer, Elsevier, and Wiley than with other publishers. However, there was relative HIV/AIDS research growth overtime.

Verifiable medical images for E-healthcare: A novel watermarking approach using robust bit-wise association of self-mutating offsprings of pixels

In the current difficult time of COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing is a common practice adopted by healthy and infected people all over the world. Because of this, electronic healthcare and Telemedicine are coming up a big way. One of the most vital challenges in E-healthcare or telemedicine is the authentication and secure transmission of medical images received by an expert(doctor) at a far-off location from the sender(patient). To address the critical authentication issue, this paper proposes a blind pixel-based self-embedding fragile watermarking approach that is effective enough to localize the tampered region with more than 90% accuracy. The self-embedding approach plays a significant role in fragile watermarking for detecting the tampered region at the receiver side. Most of the self-embedding-based fragile watermarking approaches available in the literature are block-based which has a high False Positive Rate(FPR). In the proposed approach, every pixel of the image dynamically generates eight self-mutating offsprings and gets associated with them tightly at bit level. After a systematic set of procedures on that offsprings with a triple layer of security, a single authentication bit is selected using 16 × 1 multiplexer for each pixel intensity of the image. That is why the proposed approach has a high imperceptibility level (more than 60 dB PSNR). Experimental results confirm the efficacy of the proposed approach in terms of imperceptibility and tamper detection rate.

Brahmin or Vīraśaiva? The Kannada Poet Rāghavāṅka between Idioms of Power and Devotion

Abstract Rāghavāṅka lived in the first half of the thirteenth century, when the Kannada devotional tradition we now call ‘Vīraśaivism’ or ‘Liṅgāyatism’ was at a nascent phase; the use of these labels was tenuous and the social boundaries of the local devotional movement less rigidly defined.1 Unlike a simplistic but common perception of early devotional movement in the Kannada region as being anti-Brahmanical, egalitarian, quasi-democratic, anti-ritualistic, and so on,2 texts by Rāghavāṅka and others, which are the earliest we have, present a more complex picture of cultural negotiations and religious diversity, not only in relation to entities external to the local Śaiva tradition but also among Śaivas. This divergence is reflected even within the literary production of a single author: while most of Rāghavāṅka’s works can be easily read as primarily promoting devotional values that correspond to an inclusive, non-elite, and anti-court agenda, his most celebrated literary work, the Life of Hariścandra (Hariścandra Cāritra), presents a more complex mixture of conservative values associated with Brahmanical orthodoxy and royal power combined with the emerging devotional idiom of the Kannada-speaking region. This article pays attention to ethical complications in the Life of Hariścandra and to how the later tradition negotiated these against a clear set of inclusive, anti-Brahmanical, and anti-court ideals. With this analysis, I wish to suggest a more dynamic understanding of how Vīraśaivism positioned itself in relation to Brahmanical orthodoxy and royal power. As recent studies show, religious identities in the premodern, which today we think of using labels such as ‘Vīraśaivism’ and ‘Brahmanical orthodoxy’, were not static but rather a product of a dialectical and historically dynamic process, a process that involved refashioning and self-repositioning in relation to other emergent religious actors.3 This article reconstructs such a negotiation about social values and religious identity as it unfolded in Vīraśaiva devotional narratives.

Highly cited forensic practitioners in the discipline legal and forensic medicine and the importance of peer-review and publication for admission of expert testimony.

Peer-review of manuscripts submitted to scholarly journals for publication dates back ~ 350years and this process represents the foundation of scientific publishing. After a manuscript has undergone and survived a rigorous peer-review, this conveys a stamp of approval, because it signifies the work has been checked by independent experts in the scientific discipline concerned. The publication and citation track records of people instructed to appear as expert witness in civil and criminal litigation are important considerations. Using a publically available database, the most highly cited scientists in the discipline legal and forensic medicine were identified. For each scientist, a composite score was calculated based on six different citation metrics; (i) Total number of citations, (ii) H-index, (iii) Hm-index, which modifies the H-index for multi-authored papers, (iv) Citations to single-author papers, (v) Citations to single and first author papers and (vi) citations to single, first and last author papers. The top 100,000 most highly cited scientists from all disciplines were identified along with the top 2% of the most highly cited in each of 176 sub-fields. The latest version of the citation databases, up to the end of 2020, classified 14.163 people as having legal and forensic medicine as their primary research discipline. Of these, there were 29 names listed among the top 100,000 most highly cited in all disciplines and 299 were among the top cited 2% in their particular sub-field. More than 50% of the highly cited forensic practitioners resided in four countries (USA, Germany, UK and Australia). The top-ten most highly cited individuals were the same in all four versions of the database (2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020) and represented the sub-disciplines of toxicology (n = 3), genetics/DNA/heredity (n = 3), whereas two specialized in pathology/toxicology and two in pathology/genetics.

Reliability and Validity of an MRI-Based Knee Sagittal Alignment Measure in a Pediatric Cohort.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sagittal alignment is a measure that has been described and validated in the adult population as a means of distinguishing normal knees from those with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, but this measure has not been formally assessed among pediatric patients. The purpose of this study was to (1) assess the reliability of this MRI-based measure in a pediatric cohort, and (2) validate its ability to distinguish between ACL and non-ACL-injured knees in this population. A consecutive series of knee MRI examinations performed at our center were reviewed to identify studies of pediatric patients (1) with ACL injury, and (2) without significant pathology. Patient age, sex, physeal status (open, closing, or closed), knee laterality, and magnet strength (1.5 or 3-Tesla) were collected. The sagittal alignment was measured in both medial and lateral tibiofemoral compartments using a previously described method. Mean anterior tibial translation was then calculated for each study. Inter-rater and intrarater reliability testing was performed on a subset of randomly-selected patients from each cohort by three raters by calculating intraclass correlation coefficients. Sagittal alignment measurements of all patients were then completed by a single author after reliability was confirmed. The medial and lateral compartment translation and mean anterior tibial translation measurements of normal and ACL-injured knees were compared. Inclusion criteria were met by 131 studies: 86 from uninjured knees (normal cohort) and 45 knees with ACL injury (ACL cohort). Studies were performed at a mean age of 13.4 with a near equivalent sex distribution. Inter-rater and intrarater reliability were good to excellent for all measures for patients in both normal and ACL cohorts. Normal and ACL-injured knees demonstrated a significant difference in anterior tibial translation in all measured regions. The mean anterior tibia translation for ACL-injured knees was 2.01 mm (95% confidence interval: 1.03-2.98) versus -0.44 mm (95% confidence interval: -0.89-0.014). This study identified good to excellent inter-rater and intrarater reliability of knee sagittal alignment measurements among pediatric patients. It also demonstrated a significant difference in medial compartment, lateral compartment, and mean tibial translation in patients with and without ACL injury, validating previous findings demonstrated in adult cohorts. These findings may be useful in assisting providers in the confirmation of suspected ACL injury and insufficiency and guide operative management in cases of clinical uncertainty. Level III-retrospective comparative study.

Translational Authorship and Multilingual (Re)writing in Uljana Wolf and Sophie Seita's Subsisters: Selected Poems (2017)

ABSTRACT As the field of literary studies moves away from national canons, research on multilingual writing tends to focus on the aesthetic features used by multilingual writers to challenge the primacy of the mother tongue. This article complements such accounts by showing that writing across languages has wider implications for literary theory than the questioning of the monolingual paradigm. Multilingualism has the potential to disrupt normative understandings of the literary text as a unique and stable product written by a single author. The article uses Uljana Wolf’s multilingual poetry and Sophie Seita’s experimental translations in Subsisters (2017) to explore translational authorship as a form of collaborative (re)writing that redefines linguistic and textual ownership as communal, blurring the boundaries between native and foreign language, original and translation. To demystify the idea of the author as an original genius with perfect mastery of language, Wolf’s writings simulate translation failure. This practice, which I call pseudomistranslation, invites us to take originality less seriously and to engage with literature in more playful ways.

Unequal opportunities in Italian cardiovascular research: focus on gender.

Despite unanimous calls for more equitable access and support to female researchers, there are persistent barriers to women's career progression and professional fulfillment. These discriminative hurdles undermine female gender in science and have detrimental effects on research activities and female professionals and patients. There is no data on women's outlook in cardiovascular research in Italy, which limits appropriate remedial actions. We aimed at providing an updated perspective on top Italian cardiovascular researchers, focusing on women versus men comparisons. Top Italian cardiovascular researchers were retrieved from a dedicated and validated Scopus query. Researchers' sex was assigned according to the given name with a consensus process. Several metrics were compared, including global rank, total cites, total cites adjusted by academic age, H-index, and self-citation percentage. Bivariate and propensity score-adjusted analyses were used for inferential purposes. Our analysis shows the existence of a gender gap: the number of scientific articles published by Italian male researchers in their careers is significantly higher than their female counterparts (P=0.002). For men, the year of first publication is earlier (P=0.001); they also published more articles as a single author, or single + first author or single + first + last author. Men's papers cited at least once were more than those of women (P≤0.001), and the total number of citations was significantly higher for men (P=0.002). These results remain significant both in the analysis excluding self-citations as well as in the analysis including self-citations. The single-year analysis (2019) confirms the significance of the career analysis, adding that men have a higher rank based on composite score (P=0.041, or P=0.005 if including self-citation). Finally, men have a higher percentage of self-citation in 2019 than women (P=0.008). The gender disparity is still a limiting factor in Italian cardiovascular research. Despite career advancement, women continue to be underrepresented. Men retain more leadership positions in academia and maintain the edge for scientific work productions. More efforts are needed to ensure equity between men and women.

Samuel Beckett as World Literature

Samuel Beckett as World Literature

The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant: From Urban Origins to the Demise of City-States, 3700–1000 BCE

The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant: From Urban Origins to the Demise of City-States, 3700–1000 BCE

Semantic change and knowledge transmission: Some case studies in the distribution of words in ECCO

Abstract This article attempts to make good on the affordances of lexical co-association to investigate semantic change in the British eighteenth-century corpus, mindful of the theories of knowledge that have been presented in an adumbrated state above. Pulling back to enquire into the whole of the eighteenth-century printed corpus, and designing tools fit for apprehending and making sense of such a large, impersonal, non-individual view, will result in a complementary picture of how knowledge was structured and transmitted in the eighteenth century compared with individualistic or ‘great man’ narratives of the history of ideas. Taking the eighteenth-century corpus as a field of enquiry (even in light of its various well-known limitations and inherent biases) results of course in a virtually total loss of granularity at the level of close reading, and a consequent turn away from individual texts written by individual people. But what replaces this is the ability to reconstitute structures of semantic expression from that time that are unexaminable at the level of the sentence and the paragraph, the chapter, and the book. As will be demonstrated, we may now make visible the printed, common, and possibly ‘public’ or social structures of meaning. This article’s field of enquiry is the vast common printed semantic storehouse, as opposed to what is laid down by single authors in clauses, sentences, and chapters.

Digital Intervention Strategies for Increasing Physical Activity Among Preschoolers: Systematic Review.

BackgroundDigital interventions are increasingly used to improve health behaviors. Improved access and lower costs (relative to in-person interventions) make such interventions appealing. Specifically, digital platforms may be a promising approach for increasing physical activity (PA) in young children.ObjectiveThe goal of this systematic review was three-pronged: (1) to determine the quality of studies using digital PA intervention strategies with preschool-aged children (ie, 3 to 5 years old); (2) to assess the efficacy of digital interventions and approaches designed to improve PA in preschool-aged children; and (3) to examine theoretical application and implementation outcomes with current approaches to digital PA interventions.MethodsThis review identified and summarized studies on digitally supported interventions for promoting PA in preschool-aged children. We generated 3 lists of relevant search terms that included technology-related terms, PA-related terms, and weight-related terms. The search included Ovid MEDLINE(R) and Epub Ahead of Print, In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations, and Daily, Ovid EMBASE, Ovid Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Ovid Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and Scopus. Study selection was led by a single author and verified by a second; the same 2 authors assessed study quality using a standardized tool, and 3 authors completed data extraction on PA outcomes, theory application, and implementation outcomes.ResultsIn total, 601 studies were identified; 8 met the inclusion criteria. For study quality, only 2 studies received an overall rating of strong quality and low risk of bias. All but 1 study had a small sample size (<100). Positive and significant changes in child PA outcomes were reported in only 2 studies with weak overall quality, both of which used child-directed approaches. In total, 5 studies applied a behavioral theory for designing the intervention; no patterns of effectiveness were identified based on the application of theory. Finally, no studies reported on the implementation outcomes of adoption, cost, penetration, or sustainability; 1 study did not assess any implementation outcomes, and no single study reported on more than 2 implementation outcomes. Studies measured the implementation outcome of acceptability most frequently (n=4), and researchers assessed fidelity in 3 studies.ConclusionsThe interventions with a significant effect on PA used child-centered activities; parent-directed digital interventions alone were ineffective for improving PA. Future research with rigorous designs, monitoring of implementation outcomes, and testing of the contributions of digital components will advance understanding of the effectiveness of digital interventions for increasing PA in children.

Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Review: A Study

Content analysis is non obtrusive research method which helps in getting meaningful insight from the communication. For the present study Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and review was subjected to content analysis. The primary aim of the study was to identify authorship pattern, country wise distribution, length of articles and designations of the contributing authors. It was found that total 221 articles were published in the journal in the year 2021 and 2022. Country wise distribution of the articles revealed that contributions have been made from different parts of the world. India and Philippines acquired 1st and 2nd position by contributing maximum number of articles. It was identified that single authors have contributed more articles. Maximum articles contributed were in the page range of 11 to 20. Teaching staff, research scholars and students have contributed maximum number of articles in the journal.

Ways of authors’ presence in the First Novgorod Chronicle

The article is devoted to the study of the ways of authors’ presence in the First Novgorod Chronicle, such as first-person narration, rhetorical questions and exclamations, some chronological formulas. At first, they are consequently considered in fragments presumably written by a single author. After that, the researcher dwells upon similar phrases in fragments written by different authors. The combination of first- and third-person narration, cases of quotes from authoritative texts as well as attention of the chroniclers to weather phenomena, indications of a moment in time or a time interval in chronological formulas are noted. Remarks of the chroniclers from Novgorod and from Kiev are compared. The number of authors’ explications in the text of the First Novgorod Chronicle starts to decrease in the end of the 13th century. Discrepancies in the ways of the authors’ presence in the texts of the senior and junior editions of the Novgorod First Chronicle are given. Some cases of lexical and grammatical substitutions by scribes are revealed. The possibility of updating the authenticity and subjectivity of the chronicle narration through the authors’ explications, as well as cases of using similar expressions by different scribes as possible manifestations of the chroniclers’ self-awareness are discussed.