"circle of scholars" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a group of people (scholars) who work together or share similar interests or goals. For example, "The university's circle of scholars includes some of the brightest minds in the field."
BEIJING — It's known among a small circle of scholars in China as "the Qian Xuesen question".
As troubles mounted, Mr. Sun cultivated ties to a circle of scholars who study rural issues.
After their initial discovery they were tightly held by a small circle of scholars.
Mesrop Mashtots dispatched his circle of scholars to Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Alexandriaandand Rome in search of biblical and literary manuscripts.
For decades after the scrolls were discovered in caves near the Dead Sea east of Jerusalem, access was limited to a tight circle of scholars.
Associated with this circle of scholars have been Mircea Eliade, the eminent Romanian-French historian of religion, and the Hungarian-Swiss historian of religion Károly Kerényi (1897 1973).
Female composers of electronic and computer music have long been overlooked outside circles of scholars and record scavengers.
Since that time interest in the possibility of making the Anthropocene official had extended beyond geology and other Earth sciences and into circles of scholars interested in anthropology, history, and the environmental sciences, as well as to the press and the public at large.
Ms. Larson noted that few people outside the small circle of Tubman scholars would know that the quotation was not authentic.
But a growing circle of legal scholars is focusing on a lower-profile ruling — issued one week before the Shelby County decision and written by Justice Scalia — that may point the way to a new approach to protecting voting rights.
She calls Austen's writing "lovely", extols the "wonderful" work of her fellow critics, snuggles up to her "sisterly circle" of fellow scholars in Oxford, and gives smoochy thanks to her "dearest husband" for his support.
