Jazan University Arts and Humanities Corpus (JUAHCO): 2010-2025

JUAHCO is a specialized institutional corpus containing 187 research files with approximately 1.03 million tokens. It documents English-language scholarly writing by Jazan University faculty in Arts and Humanities disciplines, as indexed by Scopus, from 2010 to 2025. The corpus was compiled by Ashwaq A. Alsulami to support linguistic and rhetorical analysis within a specific Saudi university context.

Use Cases

• Corpus linguistics research on phraseology and lexical patterns across 187 academic texts.
• Academic writing and genre analysis of research articles from a specific institutional and cultural context.
• Diachronic studies of scholarly discourse development over the 15-year period from 2010 to 2025.
• Metadiscourse and stance research using the annotated textual data.
• Developing pedagogically relevant materials for academic writing instruction based on a localized corpus.

Strengths

• Contains a substantial 1.03 million tokens from 187 research files, providing a significant text base for analysis.
• Offers a 15-year diachronic record (2010-2025) of academic production, enabling longitudinal studies.
• Built with a transparent, Scopus-based methodology focused on Arts and Humanities, ensuring disciplinary relevance.
• Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse and redistribution.

Limitations

• The exact structure and available columns are unknown, as no column list is provided by the sources.
• Sources provide no row count, only file and token counts, limiting understanding of dataset granularity.
• The corpus is institutionally specific to Jazan University, which may limit generalizability to other contexts.

Provenance

Source

Ashwaq A. Alsulami, via figshare and DataCite.

Collection Method

Systematic selection of Jazan University research outputs indexed in Scopus, filtered by Arts and Humanities subject classifications.

Time Range

2010 to 2025

Freshness

2026-04-03

Geography

Jazan University, Saudi Arabia