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Scholars have long been interested in the relationship between the amount of consensus in an academic field and the amount of scholarly production. In this paper, I describe previous theory and research that suggest four possible relationships between the amount of scholarly production and the degree of consensus. These relationships are tested with data on the content of 50 sub-debates in the field...
While there have been many studies of knowledge production in the natural sciences, there have been relatively few of the social sciences and almost none of the humanities. In this study I examine stratification in knowledge production in a largely American interdisciplinary humanities debate called bioethics, focusing on the issue of the ethics of human genetic engineering. Using a type of content...
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