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Separates what is new here from what was already measured. Articles per reign (Bak & Oh), Joseon eclipse records (Ahn & Lee), early-Joseon historians' comments (Cha) and Sillok criminal cases (Yu) existed before; they sit next to this site's recount, and disagreements are shown rather than resolved.

Figures that earlier studies already produced are shown next to this site's recount. Only values read from the original publications are included.

Bak & Oh (2015), articles per reign counted from the NIKH website (p. 11, Table 1): the table sums to 347,926 for Taejo–Cheoljong and 380,723 for all 27 reigns. The corpus total stated in the text, 380,271 ('1392–1863'), differs from the table sum by 452, an inconsistency within the paper (up to 1.2.3 this site wrongly labeled that figure 'with Gojong and Sunjong').

Bak, J. & Oh, A. (2015). Five Centuries of Monarchy in Korea: Mining the Text of the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty. LaTeCH 2015, 10–14. doi:10.18653/v1/W15-3702

Cha Jang-seop, 'Historians' comments in the early Joseon Veritable Records', Guksagwan Nonchong 32 (1992), section III, Table 2: 3,435 comments in early Joseon (Table 2: Jeongjong 1, Sejo 5, Yejong 2, Seongjong 629, Yeonsangun 34, Jungjong 1,261, Injong 55, Myeongjong 1,439; the table sums to 3,426, nine short of the total stated in the text, as in the original), each '史臣曰' counted as one comment.

Cha Jang-seop, 'Historians' comments in the early Joseon Veritable Records' (in Korean), Guksagwan Nonchong 32, National Institute of Korean History.

NIKH edition notes: the Revised Seonjo records are 'one fifth of the original', the Revised Gyeongjong records 'one third', and the final draft of the Daily Records of Gwanghaegun 'reduced by about a third' from the second draft.

NIKH, Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty website, edition notes by reign (wnb, wtb, woa, wob).

Oh Hang-nyeong (2004): the Revised Seonjo records re-evaluate 40 persons through 52 historians' comments.

Oh Hang-nyeong, 'Changes in the conventions of Veritable Records compilation in late Joseon' (in Korean), Guksagwan Nonchong 105, 2004.

Ahn & Lee (2004), Table 1: of 261 Joseon eclipse records (231 in the Sillok, 30 in other sources) 11 are mis-dated and 60 were not visible from Korea (16 below the horizon); 38 visible eclipses went unrecorded.

Ahn, Y. S. & Lee, Y. S. (2004). The Solar Eclipse Predictions of Chiljeongsan-oepyeon in Early Choseon. J. Astron. Space Sci. 21(4), 493–504. doi:10.5140/JASS.2004.21.4.493

Yu Seung-hui (2007): of 2,853 capital cases in the Ilseongnok (Jeongjo–Cheoljong), only 111 can be found in the Sillok (46, 36, 25 and 4 by reign).

Yu Seung-hui, 'A study of capital-offense records in the criminal section of the Ilseongnok' (in Korean), Journal of the Korean Society for the Bibliographic Studies 38, 2007, 283–322.

Articles per reign — Bak & Oh (2015) vs this site

EditionDated articles (this site)Bak & OhDiff
Veritable Records of King Taejo2,2512,387−136
Veritable Records of King Jeongjong6246240
Veritable Records of King Taejong10,33610,3315
Veritable Records of King Sejong30,94830,969−21
Veritable Records of King Munjong2,6702,6700
Veritable Records of King Danjong2,5322,534−2
Veritable Records of King Sejo10,80610,832−26
Veritable Records of King Yejong1,5011,503−2
Veritable Records of King Seongjong32,43832,443−5
Daily Records of Yeonsangun12,00612,009−3
Veritable Records of King Jungjong39,65839,6535
Veritable Records of King Injong667671−4
Veritable Records of King Myeongjong15,04215,044−2
Veritable Records of King Seonjo26,67926,712−33
Daily Records of Gwanghaegun, second draft22,12122,1210
Veritable Records of King Injo16,04116,046−5
Veritable Records of King Hyojong5,4275,431−4
Veritable Records of King Hyeonjong9,2919,295−4
Veritable Records of King Sukjong24,20524,209−4
Veritable Records of King Gyeongjong2,7402,744−4
Veritable Records of King Yeongjo36,72536,731−6
Veritable Records of King Jeongjo17,67017,681−11
Veritable Records of King Sunjo15,52015,529−9
Veritable Records of King Heonjong3,9793,986−7
Veritable Records of King Cheoljong5,7645,771−7
Veritable Records of King Gojong27,93927,9390