Fifty Years of the Journal Archipel (1971/1-2020/100): Figures and Trends

This article presents a series of statistics about the first 100 issues of Archipel, which offer a corpus of nearly 25,000 pages. Sixteen tables highlight various features: evolution of the number of pages, categorization of the contributions, variations regarding research notes and articles, number of signatures according to nationalities, evolution regarding texts published in French and English, distribution of the occurrences in the texts according to their geographical frameworks, distribution of the occurrences in the texts in chronological terms, distribution of book reviews, and online consultations. One of the lessons of this statistical review is the significant number of Southeast Asian signatures. Furthermore, the internationalisation of Archipel is real, since almost half of the signatures are foreign (32 nationalities). The corollary of this phenomenon is the increasing place taken by English. The examination of the corpus has also highlighted the appearance of a new format from the turn of the century, a format reflected through fewer but longer texts. Lastly, through the Internet revolution, Archipel has acquired a visibility unimaginable for the journal's founders 50 years ago.