medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
afdtk wrote:
>
> In other words, I think we have to be careful of lending too much
> credence to so-called objective measures of scholarly output.
If you read carefully what I have written, I never suggested that these
measures were in any way objective. Nor did I suggest that I believed in
them (I'm the sceptic, remember!) Nor, for that matter, do I think that
these techniques are really applicable (yet) to the humanities, because the
literature is less developed than in the sciences - people still publish
monographs, for heaven's sake! - it is lagging by decades, if not centuries.
But that doesn't mean that the techniques themselves aren't well understood.
As for the question of library access to the literature - that is really an
issue for authors: the authors whose publications achieve 'high scores' will
be able to command the widest access to the literature - if necessary by
changing institutions.
John Briggs
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