Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: The soaring prices of scholarly and scientific journals have forced ac

The soaring prices of scholarly and scientific journals have forced academic libraries used only by academic researchers to drastically reduce their list of subscriptions. Some have suggested that in each academic discipline subscription decisions should be determined solely by a journal’s usefulness in that discipline, measured by the frequency with which it is cited in published writings by researchers in the discipline.

Which one of the following, if true, most seriously calls into question the suggestion described above?

(A) The nonacademic readership of a scholarly or scientificjournal can be accurately gauged by the number of times articles appearing in it are cited in daily newspapers and popular magazines. - WRONG. Irrelevant.

(B) The average length of a journalarticle in some sciences, such as physics, is less than half the average length of a journal article in some other academic disciplines, such as history. - WRONG. Irrelevant.

(C) The increasingly expensive scholarly
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Statistics : Posted by unraveled • on 25 Jun 2007, 20:25 • Replies 5 • Views 9705

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