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

Rachel Krasner and Jeff Butler

No 47mqk, OSF Preprints from Center for Open Science

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.

Date: 2023-06-19
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DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/47mqk

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