TY - JOUR

T1 - The New York Times as a Resource for Mode 2

AU - Hicks, Diana

AU - Wang, Jian

PY - 2013/11/30

Y1 - 2013/11/30

N2 - The New York Times (NYT) receives more citations from academic journals than the American Sociological Review, Research Policy, or the Harvard Law Review. This article explores the reasons why scholars cite the NYT so much. Reasons include studying the newspaper itself or New York City, establishing public interest in a topic by referencing press coverage, introducing specificity, and treating the NYT very much like an academic journal. The phenomenon seems to reflect a mode 2 type of scholarship produced in the context of application, organizationally diverse, socially accountable, and aiming to be socially useful as well as high quality as assessed by peers.

AB - The New York Times (NYT) receives more citations from academic journals than the American Sociological Review, Research Policy, or the Harvard Law Review. This article explores the reasons why scholars cite the NYT so much. Reasons include studying the newspaper itself or New York City, establishing public interest in a topic by referencing press coverage, introducing specificity, and treating the NYT very much like an academic journal. The phenomenon seems to reflect a mode 2 type of scholarship produced in the context of application, organizationally diverse, socially accountable, and aiming to be socially useful as well as high quality as assessed by peers.

KW - academic disciplines and traditions

KW - accounting practices

KW - engagement

KW - intervention

KW - other

KW - representation

U2 - 10.1177/0162243913497806

DO - 10.1177/0162243913497806

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:84884686910

VL - 38

SP - 851

EP - 877

JO - Science Technology and Human Values

JF - Science Technology and Human Values

SN - 0162-2439

IS - 6

ER -