Understanding the “Grievance Studies Affair” Papers and Why They Should Be Reinstated: A Response to Geoff Cole

Pluckrose, Helen; Lindsay, James; Boghossian, Peter

doi:10.1177/00491241211009946

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“…Third, subscription-based journals may have problems ensuring quality and scientific rigour. It was demonstrated in a recent exercise in which three authors submitted 20 papers to established journals that they had written specifically to use fashionable terminology but were worthless in terms of their academic content: seven were accepted (Pluckrose et al, 2021). Moreover, it has been found that even the most reputable indexes (such as Scopus) have been accepting large numbers of predatory journals (Chawla, 2021).…”

Section: Possible Disadvantages Of the Oa Modelmentioning

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Open-Access Publishing in Tourism and Hospitality Research

Hernandez-Maskivker,

Capdevila-Torres,

Ivanov

et al. 2023

Tourism (Zagreb, Online)

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This paper examines various models of academic publishing and considers their relative advantages for authors, readers, academic institutions and society. Relevant factors in driving authors’ choice of journal include the journal’s scope, reputation and publishing model used. Authors’ choices are shaped by the expectations of academic institutions and strongly determine both access to readers and the benefits to society. From an analysis of 174 journals in the tourism and hospitality field, four publication models are identified and compared: ‘subscription-only’ and the ‘Green’, ‘Gold’ and ‘Platinum’ open-access models. The findings of a survey of 42 editors of journals in the field are then presented. These suggest that subscription-based journals (be they subscription-only or hybrid) tend to be owned by commercial publishing companies and have the highest reputation, as measured by their position in one or more indexing systems. They also tend to have significantly larger numbers of paper submissions than open-access journals, especially those that use the Platinum open-access model. While some commentators have suggested that editors of open-access journals with article-processing charges may be tempted to lower their scientific standards to maximise revenues, no evidence was found that such journals have higher acceptance rates than their subscription-based equivalents.

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Section: Possible Disadvantages Of the Oa Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Open-Access Publishing in Tourism and Hospitality Research

Hernandez-Maskivker,

Capdevila-Torres,

Ivanov

et al. 2023

Tourism (Zagreb, Online)

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“…The result is that caste studies has degenerated into the same rot more generally acquired by grievance studies. This leads to some embarrassing events such as the "Sokal Squared" affair (Pluckrose et al 2018(Pluckrose et al , 2021 that exposed how bogus research sneaks past review processes as long as the rhetoric employed by the authors remains within the bounds of approved clichés and the favoured victim group is shown as consistently oppressed, whatever their actual condition. One can't help thinking that caste studies rely on yet another fallacy: the appeal to the emotion of pity (Wrisley 2019).…”

Section: Caste Studies Degeneratedmentioning

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Caste studies today: Imaginary victims and perpetrators

Shah

2023

OSLS

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Starting with an individual report in a leading British periodical of higher education, this article fans outwards to show how the contemporary field of caste studies reflects the degeneracy of its methods and claims. Rather than producing knowledge about India and the so-called caste system, caste studies has worked itself into a corner by creating a set of imagined victims and perpetrators of caste oppression, atrocities, violence and discrimination, and by making unsustainable claims on legal systems and other institutions. The manifold and insurmountable problems of contemporary caste studies include its basis in the European framework for the study of India founded upon Christian theological claims, the carry-over of this account into the secularised humanities and social sciences, and its engagement in corrupted academic practices of the kind that typify grievance studies today. That an alternative account exists in the form of the research programme of SN Balagangadhara, which inspires the articles in this special issue, is good reason for rethinking and revision of the field.

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“…A major thrust of the commentary (Pluckrose, Lindsay, and Boghossian 2021) is the argument that the so-called grievance studies project was not a hoax. A hoax paper, according to the authors, includes information that is almost entirely nonsense (e.g., Sokal 1996).…”

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The Grievance Studies Affair; One Funeral at a Time: A Reply to Pluckrose, Lindsay, and Boghossian

Cole

2021

Sociological Methods & Research

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In 2018, Lindsay, Pluckrose, and Boghossian published four “hoax” articles within a number of disciplines that rely on critical theory (e.g., gender studies, feminism). When revealing the project, the authors argued that they wanted to expose these fields as being primarily motivated by ideology and social justice rather than knowledge generation. Their method tested the hypothesis that editors and reviewers will support papers that advocate “ludicrous” ideas including “fat bodybuilding.” In the pages of this journal, I presented a critique of their procedure, and the authors have provided a commentary on my article. After discussing the issue of whether their project was a hoax or not, I will argue that the crux of the matter is whether the papers were ludicrous/absurd. I will show how the authors made a fundamental error in their method; they failed to assess whether their ideas were indeed ludicrous/absurd.

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Understanding the “Grievance Studies Affair” Papers and Why They Should Be Reinstated: A Response to Geoff Cole

Cited by 8 publications

References 22 publications

Open-Access Publishing in Tourism and Hospitality Research

Open-Access Publishing in Tourism and Hospitality Research

Caste studies today: Imaginary victims and perpetrators

The Grievance Studies Affair; One Funeral at a Time: A Reply to Pluckrose, Lindsay, and Boghossian

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