[PW] Highly regarded research papers

[Nina Gilbert]

Steve Rossiter asks about recognition awards for scholarly articles.

Certainly in music (my field), scholarly organizations give prizes in various categories.  I've been a judge for the Julius Herford Prize for the best dissertation on choral music, given by the American Choral Directors Association.  The American Musicological Society has awarded prizes for dissertations and articles with various criteria and categories, and various nomination procedures.  I've heard of similar things in other fields.  Often the prize is named in memory of an iconic, exemplary scholar.

In both musicology and choral music, the prizes are just announced within the newsletters of their organizations.  Occasionally I've seen a website where individuals develop what's essentially an annotated bibliography on a specialized topic (say, boychoirs), but I've never seen one of those that seemed thorough or accurate.

Generally the way to keep abreast of the best in your field is to be the kind of scholar who reads and remembers lots of journals -- or to know that kind of scholar and consult him or her.



Nina Gilbert
Music professor 1985-2006
Arts administrator 2006-08
(Watch this space for new title in July)
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Nina Gilbert
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----- Original Message ----
From: Steve Rossiter <steverossiter at sbcglobal.net>
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Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 3:28:25 AM
Subject: [PW] Highly regarded research papers


...Are there any awarding bodies that recognize research papers in any given
field; the 'Nobels' of scholarly articles so to say? ...