Daily Archives: May 13, 2026

Field Identity, Public Engagement, and Self-Critique: The Reflexive Commitments of Neglect Studies

Executive Summary This paper concludes the series by addressing the questions that the preceding papers have deferred: what the field is to be called, how it should present itself to non-specialist audiences, how it should distinguish its work from adjacent … Continue reading

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Engagement with Research-Governing Institutions: How Neglect Studies Works With the Bodies Whose Decisions It Studies

Executive Summary This paper addresses the field’s engagement with the institutions whose decisions shape the distribution of scholarly attention: funding agencies, learned societies, journals, university administrations, government science advisory bodies, and international scientific organizations. The engagement is unavoidable because the … Continue reading

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Workforce and Training Pipeline: Building the Scholarly Community for Neglect Studies

Executive Summary This paper addresses the workforce that neglect studies will require to function as a mature field. The premise is that institutional infrastructure (Paper 3), funding (Paper 4), and data resources (Paper 5) are necessary conditions for the field … Continue reading

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Data Infrastructure: Mapping the Negative Space

Executive Summary This paper addresses the data infrastructure that neglect studies will require to function as a mature field. The premise is that a discipline whose central business is the systematic identification of underexplored questions cannot proceed on the basis … Continue reading

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The Funding Ecosystem: Public, Private, and Philanthropic Pipelines for Neglect Studies

Executive Summary This paper addresses the hardest practical problem the field faces: how a discipline whose central business is to study what institutional science neglects can secure funding from the same institutions whose attention patterns it exists to examine. The … Continue reading

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