Abstract: International audience; This paper examines the concept of textbook eminence and asks whether this specific form of scholarly recognition is of a temporal rather than enduring nature. Based on an analysis of 30 leading textbooks in economics, psychology and sociology from the 1970s and 2010s, it is established that less than a third of all eminent scholars remain across the period as the most cited authors. Therefore, the average ‘‘half-life’’ of textbook eminence is shorter than half a century. Textbook eminence, it seems, is associat...
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Topics:
Epistemology
Social science