 Independent scholar - Acceptance of independent scholarship: Encyclopedia II - Independent scholar - Acceptance of independent scholarshipCriteria on someone's source of income or academic standing have no prima facie application to how scholarly work should be evaluated. New ideas from outside the academic establishment do however often encounter resistance. If independent scholars publish their work in non-traditional places (anywhere outside learned journals, that is) they are open to attack for lack of peer review. This applies in particular to books. In the humanities, books generally carry more weight than papers; in the sciences the opposite is true. But in both ...
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