Critical Inquiry, a top scholarly journal, is publishing a special issue on things this fall, with essay topics ranging from Renaissance gloves to aluminum in Fascist Italy.
Today, many in the field say, gender bias and outright sexual harassment are endemic in philosophy, where women make up less than 20 percent of university faculty members, lower than in any other humanities field, and account for a tiny fraction of citations in top scholarly journals.
But for the moment, the center is presenting another tip-top scholarly historical exhibition: a touring package show from the National Maritime Museum in London.
The Chronicle of Higher Education ranks the university as having the top 10 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index in the United States in the fields of biomedical sciences, developmental biology, human and medical genetics, oncology and cancer biology, structural biology and toxicology.
The language may seem a bit florid at first – a little too "historical novel" – but set all snobbery aside: this is wonderful, scholarly, top-flight stuff.
While there was an organized and scholarly backlash, several top universities changed policies to monitor the academic choices of athletes and prohibited athletes from doing things like living together in what amounted to athletic dorms.
I am even tempted to speculate that my friend, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, may have been unwittingly assisted in his rise to the top by his reserved, rather scholarly demeanour.
To do this, you report, Mr. Posner fed a large assortment of names into his computer, using "Google to enumerate Web-page hits, Lexis-Nexis to search popular journals and newspapers, and Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index to sift through scholarly publications" ("Another Top 100 List: This Time, Intellectuals," Arts & Ideas pages, Jan . 19.
According to experts, the number and rarity of the pieces found will significantly affect both the commercial market and scholarly research in top-flight East Asian antiques for years to come.
There were four standings [with yangban, or scholarly officials, at the top].
American researchers and institutions run most of the premier scholarly journals and host top conferences in the fields of psychology and psychiatry.
