IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/osf/osfxxx/47mqk.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Has Academic Research Become More Politically Focused? An Investigation into the last 50 Years of Academic Publications

Author

Listed:
  • Krasner, Rachel
  • Butler, Jeff

Abstract

What this paper aims to do is take a step away from the internal workings of academia and look at the overall scope of how research interests have evolved in the half century. We are interested to see if there is evidence that academic publications have become more politicized in the last decade than in previous ones. Please note the use of the word “politicized” which does not belong solely to any political party but to the open-ended arena of politics. By examining a curated list of politically driven terms, we use publication records to see how these terms map onto a variety of fields over time. We hope to present our findings in a non-partisan, non-judgmental way, and the reader will ultimately determine the strengths and directionality of these findings.

Suggested Citation

  • Krasner, Rachel & Butler, Jeff, 2023. "Has Academic Research Become More Politically Focused? An Investigation into the last 50 Years of Academic Publications," OSF Preprints 47mqk, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:47mqk
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/47mqk
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://osf.io/download/64908d606c098102e47d24d4/
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.31219/osf.io/47mqk?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:47mqk. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: OSF (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://osf.io/preprints/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.