It's also the case that there's lots of early career philosophers permanently needing to publish nowadays, even scholars at masters level, and so the history of

It's also the case that there's lots of early career philosophers permanently needing to publish nowadays, even scholars at masters level, and so the history of philosophy has to be mined for things to write about and argue toward. It was often the case in the past that a smaller number of philosophers could be post-doctorate and a decade into their academic careers before having or needing or wanting to publish. I think this is likely as much of a reason for the quoted statistic about 20% of the scholarship on Duns Scotus being done in the past seven years, rather than any particular blooming of interest in him.