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Can the value of journals in the humanities be quantified and ranked, as they are in the sciences? European governments think so, but editors are up in arms. Bonnie Wheeler (above), president of the Council of Editors of Learned Scholarly Journals, says assigning rankings to humanities journals is wrong, and warns that the practice could spread to the United States.
New Ratings of Humanities Journals Rankle Editors
Can the value of journals and scholarship in the humanities be quantified and ranked, as if they were in the sciences? European governments think so, but editors are up in arms. The Other Forgotten Scientist in the Medical Nobel Prize Story 2 New Digital Models Promise Academic Publishing for Profit Is 2.08 Really the Loneliest Number? THE NOT-SO-LONELY CROWD: The growth of social isolation in America may have been exaggerated in a well-known study, says a sociologist at the University of California at Berkeley. Publishing
New Scholarly Books: Hot Type: The University of Pennsylvania Press takes over publication of Dissent magazine, and the University of Central Arkansas will provide a home for Exquisite Corpse. Nota Bene: New books illuminate Gotham's night lights, survey its repeated fictional destruction, and cross-fade to its interwar film industry. Plus: A documentary looks at Grove Press's Barney Rosset. What they're reading on college campuses: A list of the best-selling books.
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