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Dissertation Information for Ylva Lindholm-Romantschuk

NAME:
- Ylva Lindholm-Romantschuk

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- University of California, Berkeley (USA) (1994)

ADVISORS:
- Yale M. Braunstein

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Patrick Wilson
- Neil Joseph Smelser

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: The flow of ideas within and among academic disciplines: Scholarly book reviewing in the social sciences and humanities

Abstract: This study explores the flow of information within and among academic disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities through analyses of the patterns of scholarly book reviewing generated by an elite sample of scholarly monographs published by university presses 1971-1990. The study assumes that an academic discipline is a social construct and may change over time. The research approach is empirical and quantitative. The study shows that scholarly book reviews are significant indicators of scholarly communication, and can successfully be utilized to trace the flow of information within and across knowledge domains.

The results show that there is a great deal of cross-disciplinary information exchange within and among the humanities and the social sciences. The disciplines vary as to the speed, the direction, and the volume of the flow of information in observable ways. Maps of the communication flows, based on the empirical data, reveal fairly complex networks of information flow among the disciplines. There are consistent bilateral relationships between disciplines as well. The boundaries between disciplines may be more permeable than has previously been thought.

The results show that even an elite scholarly monograph generates only an average of eight reviews. The prestige of the publisher and the disciplinary origin of the monograph affect the number of reviews generated. The main direction of the flow of information across disciplinary groups is from the social sciences to the humanities. Moreover, the humanities are becoming increasingly interested in the social sciences. The distribution of reviews among journals follows the typical pattern of high concentration: 20% of the journals yield 80% of the reviews. This supports the notion that a small core of journals in each field determines the intellectual direction of the field.

MPACT Scores for Ylva Lindholm-Romantschuk

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calculated 2008-05-29 20:35:04

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