How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment

By L. Langfeldt. 2011

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations

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Ties That Last (2013, background): “Some faculty members even find interdisciplinary discussion more enlivening because there are discussions of different methods, writing styles, and epistemic cultures (Lamont, 2009).”
Brokerage Professions and Implementing Reform in an Age of Experts (2014, background): “When professionals attempt to work with one another across professional boundaries, meaning difficulties can occur because professional knowledge is shaped by community-specific values and norms (Bechky 2003b; Lamont 2010; McPherson and Sauder 2013; Turco 2012).”
Evaluation practices and effects of indicator use : a literature review (2016, background): “ Lamont, M. (2012) ‘Toward a comparative sociology of valuation and evaluation’, Annual Review of Sociology, 38: 201-221.”
Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance, Novelty, and Resource Allocation in Science (2016, background): “1 A common approach in evaluating innovative projects is to refer to experts with deep domain knowledge to assess quality of proposed projects (Chubin and Hackett, 1990; Lamont, 2009).”
Citations, Citation Indicators, and Research Quality: An Overview of Basic Concepts and Theories (2019, background): “They span from correctness, rigor, clarity, productivity, recognition, novelty, beauty, significance, autonomy, difficulty, and relevance to ethical/sustainable research (Aksnes & Rip, 2009; Bazeley, 2010; Hemlin, 1991; Hug, Ochsner, & Daniel, 2013; Lamont, 2009; Martensson, Fors, Wallin, Zander, & ”
Prominent but Less Productive (2015, background): “Even in this era of broad enthusiasm for interdisciplinary research (NAS, 2005), disciplinary fields remain an entrenched way in which scholarly activity is organized (Sá, 2008) and evaluated (Lamont, 2009), making field-spanning offerings unexpected.”
Bias in peer review (2013, unknown): “(2009) argue that evaluative criteria should not be subject to unifying, transdisciplinary interpretations (Lamont, 2009; Mallard et al., 2009).”
Hiring as Cultural Matching (2012, methodology): “Although I’m sure other people would be like “What the hell?” and assume it’s a cushy major and discount his GPA, because I went to Yale and had a lot of friends who did it, I know it’s actually one of the toughest and most competitive majors.”