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Series:   Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

Authorship and Publishing in the Humanities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2023

Marcel Knöchelmann
Marcel Knöchelmann
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut

Summary

What is the point of publishing in the humanities? This Element provides an answer to this question. It builds on a unique set of quantitative and qualitative data to understand why humanities scholars publish. It looks at both basic characteristics such as publication numbers, formats, and perceptions, and differences of national academic settings alongside the influences of the UK's Research Excellence Framework and the German Exzellenzinitiative. The data involve a survey of more than 1,000 humanities scholars and social scientists in the UK and Germany, allowing for a comprehensive comparative study, and a series of qualitative interviews. The resulting critique provides scholars and policy makers with an accessible and critical work about the particularities of authorship and publishing in the humanities. And it gives an account of the problems and struggles of humanities scholars in their pursuit of contributing to discourse, and to be recognised with their intellectual work.
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publish or perishResearch Excellence FrameworkExzellenzinitiativeauthorship and publishinghumanities
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Series: Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
Online ISBN: 9781009223089
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Print publication: 03 August 2023

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