• DOI:10.1177/0162243913497806
• Corpus ID: 73641050

The New York Times as a Resource for Mode 2

@article{Hicks2013TheNY,
  title={The New York Times as a Resource for Mode 2},
  author={Diana Hicks and Jian Wang},
  journal={Science, Technology, \& Human Values},
  year={2013},
  volume={38},
  pages={851 - 877},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:73641050}
}

• D. Hicks, Jian Wang
• Published 25 July 2013
• Sociology, Political Science
• Science, Technology, & Human Values

The New York Times (NYT) receives more citations from academic journals than the American Sociological Review, Research Policy, or the Harvard Law Review. This article explores the reasons why scholars cite the NYT so much. Reasons include studying the newspaper itself or New York City, establishing public interest in a topic by referencing press coverage, introducing specificity, and treating the NYT very much like an academic journal. The phenomenon seems to reflect a mode 2 type of… 

The New York Times (NYT) receives more citations from academic journals than the American Sociological Review, Research Policy, or the Harvard Law Review. This article explores the reasons why scholars cite the NYT so much. Reasons include studying the newspaper itself or New York City, establishing public interest in a topic by referencing press coverage, introducing specificity, and treating the NYT very much like an academic journal. The phenomenon seems to reflect a mode 2 type of scholarship produced in the context of application, organizationally diverse, socially accountable, and aiming to be socially useful as well as high quality as assessed by peers.