Comments on: Abbott’s “Digital Paper”: the best book about research EVAR

By: When life hands you a coffee plantation, make espresso | Savage Minds

When life hands you a coffee plantation, make espresso | Savage Minds — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:37:34 +0000

[…] compaction doesn’t quite capture what research in the field or library is really like. As Andrew Abbott has shown us, most research is mostly about processing information: Was Michael Somare Bernard Narokobi’s […]

By: zoobiewa

zoobiewa — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 16:56:13 +0000

Wow. Thank you. I’ve been looking for something along these lines for a really long time.

By: John McCreery

John McCreery — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 02:21:04 +0000

The book is now in my Kindle library. Abbott is one of my favorite sociologists, especially when it comes to discussions of theory and method. His earlier Methods of Discovery: Heuristics for the Social Sciences is a must for anyone with an interest in these topics.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 07:12:34 +0000

I saw Abbott speak once, he was saying he was asked to do a comprehensive lit review on a topic. He wrote back to the editors and said that there’s so much stuff being produced on that topic, he can only write a lit review on what was produced in the last 12 months. I thought, ‘wow that’s brilliant’, but then I sadly also thought ‘he can do that because he’s Andrew Abbott’. If you’re not a well published highly regarded superstar academic, you’ll keep being asked to refer to more and more (often not relevant) literature by journal editors etc. and have to bury yourself in the haystack rather than look in the needle draw.

By: Matthew Timothy Bradley

Matthew Timothy Bradley — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 20:40:04 +0000

Abbot prefers Web of Science searches (ranked by ‘most cited’) to Google.

The cooptation may have begun: http://wokinfo.com/googlescholar/