This sure seems like it should work. My experience is that there’s either nothing, or whatever quality analyses exist are drowned out by pap reviews (it is possible I should tolerate reading more pap reviews in order to find the gems). However I think you’re right that for issues that have an academic presence, google scholar will return good results.
It seems like some questions might seem heavily researched, but are in fact either so hazy that no amount of research will produce clarity, or so huge that even a lot of research is nowhere near enough.
An example of the latter might be “what caused the fall of Rome?”
Ideally, you’d want numerous scholars working on each hypothesis, modeling the complex causal graph, specializing in various levels of detail.
In reality, it sounds like there are some hypotheses that are advanced by just one or a handful of scholars. Without enough eyes on every aspect of the problem, it’s no surprise that you’d have to become an expert to really evaluate the quality of the arguments on each side.
This sure seems like it should work. My experience is that there’s either nothing, or whatever quality analyses exist are drowned out by pap reviews (it is possible I should tolerate reading more pap reviews in order to find the gems). However I think you’re right that for issues that have an academic presence, google scholar will return good results.
It seems like some questions might seem heavily researched, but are in fact either so hazy that no amount of research will produce clarity, or so huge that even a lot of research is nowhere near enough.
An example of the latter might be “what caused the fall of Rome?”
Ideally, you’d want numerous scholars working on each hypothesis, modeling the complex causal graph, specializing in various levels of detail.
In reality, it sounds like there are some hypotheses that are advanced by just one or a handful of scholars. Without enough eyes on every aspect of the problem, it’s no surprise that you’d have to become an expert to really evaluate the quality of the arguments on each side.