[Sigah-l] Wouters P, "The Citation Culture" - full text available in pdf

[Ralph Dumain]

This looks like a fascinating read.  One can only wonder what lunacies such 
a study applied to the humanities might reveal.  In view of the Sokal 
affair and my experience with the cultural and literary people go 
selectively go interdisciplinary to borrow the worst of philosophy and 
science studies to bolster their obscurantism, it would be interesting to 
have a more precise indication of the literature this selective borrowing 
selects and what it deliberately or ignorantly ignores.

At 11:12 AM 4/21/2004 -0400, Richard Hill wrote:
>[Posted on behalf of Dr. Eugene Garfield.  Dick Hill]
>
>In January 2000  I sent the listserv a notice about the publication of 
>Paul Wouters' doctoral thesis "The Citation Culture" along with an 
>introduction by me and a brief abstract of the book (reproduced below).
>
>The  author has kindly provided a  full-text electronic version in pdf
>format which is available at :
>http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/wouters/wouters.pdf
>
>Paul Wouters can be reached at: paul.wouters at niwi.knaw.nl
>
>Best wishes,
>Eugene Garfield

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