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When you study something, you have to focus somewhere. It is not "daft" to focus on something, even if you and everyone else know there is more out there - you
by scott_s 8y ago
When you study something, you have to focus somewhere. It is not "daft" to focus on something, even if you and everyone else know there is more out there - you only have limited time and effort. The hope is that others will focus on the other things.
- emodendroket 8y agoThat's fine, but surely these other fields have made some discoveries that would be relevant to their work.
- tokai 8y agoThe issue is that journals have already been studies for over 60 years (closer to 100 actually), in the wider context of general scientific communication. You can find literally thousands of papers dealing with questions about journals in the bibliometric/scientometric literature. Coining a new discipline without acknowledging prior research, while at the same time choosing an arbitrary delimitation of your object of study (scientific communication), is at the best daft and at the worst a scam.
- scott_s 8y agoThis is a popular science article about the work of a bunch of researchers. I think it's fair to assume the researchers have an understanding of how their work fits into the larger field in a way not represented by the author of the popular science article.