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

Posted on May 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

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

Posted on May 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

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

Posted on May 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

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

Posted on May 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

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

Posted on May 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

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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Academic Infrastructure: Programs, Journals, Conferences, and Curricula for Neglect Studies

Posted on May 12, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This paper addresses the academic infrastructure required to sustain neglect studies as a field: the institutional homes within universities, the publication outlets through which findings circulate and accumulate, the conferences at which scholars meet, and the curricula through … Continue reading →

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Methods: How to Study What Is Not Being Studied

Posted on May 12, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This paper addresses the central methodological challenge of neglect studies: how to make rigorous, defensible claims about scholarly attention that is missing rather than present. The challenge is genuine. Claims of neglect are easy to make, and the … Continue reading →

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Defining the Field: Scope, Taxonomy, and Antecedents of Neglect Studies

Posted on May 12, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This paper develops the conceptual foundation for neglect studies as a distinct field of inquiry. It addresses three tasks. First, it establishes the scope of the field by specifying what counts as an instance of scholarly neglect and … Continue reading →

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