theorywatch

I’m sorry I missed this conference here in Tulsa, which was held over a decade ago (long before I had any idea that I’d end up here!) Ironically, I was led to this link largely due to a somewhat sympathetic mention by the University of Oklahoma’s “academic integrity” officer (during a presentation about TurnItIn at our recent faculty meeting) of Rebecca Moore Howard of Syracuse, as someone whose work resists the TurnItIn “ethos.” And, even though I was at Syracuse back then, I didn’t know her work, either (or that of the other “InCiters” — though I see that I do know at least some of the work that they cite.) Interesting look at what we might call “the citation underclass,” and I have to admit that I’m deeply sympathetic to it. One thing that strikes me is that this “undercurrent” of citation behavior is also markedly “under-researched.” (Even Blaise Cronin, who seems to pioneer everything citation-related, hasn’t touched on this, at least to my admittedly limited knowledge). So now it behooves me to cite the (In)Citers if I ever do anything more with citation systems as theories of anything….