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June 11, 2012Dismissive Reviews: Academe's Memory HoleRichard Phelps, via a kind email: "In scholarly terms, a review of the literature or literature review is a summation of the previous research that has been done on a particular topic. With a dismissive literature review, a researcher assures the public that no one has yet studied a topic or that very little has been done on it. A firstness claim is a particular type of dismissive review in which a researcher insists that he is the first to study a topic. Of course, firstness claims and dismissive reviews can be accurate--for example, with genuinely new scientific discoveries or technical inventions. But that does not explain their prevalence in nonscientific, nontechnical fields, such as education, economics, and public policy, nor does it explain their sheer abundance across all fields.Posted by Jim Zellmer at June 11, 2012 4:36 AM Subscribe to this site via RSS/Atom: ![]() Comments
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