LSAT-3-I-13

音乐咖啡猫 · 发表于 2004-12-7 20:58:00

13. The soaring prices of scholarly and scientific journals have forced academic libraries used only by academic researchers to drastically reduce their list of subscriptions. Some have suggested that in each academic discipline subscription decisions should be determined solely by a journal’s usefulness in that discipline, measured by the frequency with which it is cited in published writings by researchers in the discipline.

Which one of the following, if true, most seriously calls into question the suggestion described above?

(A) The nonacademic readership of a scholarly or scientific journal can be accurately gauged by the number of times articles appearing in it are cited in daily newspapers and popular magazines.

(B) The average length of a journal article in some sciences, such as physics, is less than half the average length of a journal article in some other academic disciplines, such as history.

(C) The increasingly expensive scholarly journals are less and less likely to be available to the general public from nonacademic public libraries.

(D) Researchers often will not cite a journal article that has influenced their work if they think that the journal in which it appears is not highly regarded by the leading researchers in the mainstream of the discipline.（D）

(E) In some academic disciplines, controversies which begin in the pages of one journal spill over into articles in other journals that are widely read by researchers in the discipline.

这道题虽然做对了，可是是蒙的，仅仅是看到D里面出现了原文都出现的词汇而且没有新词来猜的，可是复习的时候读了好多遍，还是没有明白题目讲什么意思，请那位能帮我翻译一下呢？

lawyer_1 · 发表于 2004-12-7 21:13:00

学术杂志的飞涨的价格已使图书馆减少订购量，一些人建议应仅仅根据该杂志在该学科的有用性决定订购量，这个有用性由该领域的研究者引用该杂志的频率来衡量。

Bensontuo · 发表于 2019-8-11 13:15:29

lawyer_1 发表于 2004-12-7 21:13
学术杂志的飞涨的价格已使图书馆减少订购量，一些人建议应仅仅根据该杂志在该学科的有用性决定订购量，这个 ...

13.

Spot the question type: Weaken

P1: Soaring prices of scholarly and scientific journals have forced academic libraries to reduce their list of subscriptions ---> academic libraries used only by academic researchers.

C: academic discipline subscription decision be determined ---> only by usefulness in that discipline ---> measured by the frequency with which it is cited in published writing by researchers in the discipline.

There really isn't much of a core to this one but the main idea is this: "One can determine the general usefulness of an article by the frequency it is cited. Thus, decisions should be made on this basis."

So we want to show why number of citations is actually NOT a good indicator of usefulness. Couldn't it be that articles are useful, not because they get cited often, but rather because they have a good array of information written in a succinct manner? Couldn't the usefulness of these articles be measured by other things such as the magazine it came from? All I am thinking in my head is to show WHY the number of citations doesn't exactly equal the usefulness of that article.

(D) is right because it does show why there may be an inverse relationship between usefulness and citation count. That is, it shows that an article can be highly useful while not being cited as frequently as others.

It says that "Researchers often will not cite an article that has influenced their work." So "influenced their work" would be a good way to say that the article was "useful" to those researchers. Also notice that we are not talking about what some researchers do sometimes, we are talking about what researchers do often! This is a general maxim. Following this, it just gives a reason why researchers do what they do, which isn't nearly as important as the beginning part of the answer choice.

So as you can see, it shows that USEFULNESS and CITATION COUNT are not always related. Something can be highly useful while not being cited.

As for the others...

(A) This actually strengthens the suggestion because it shows that there are some cases in which some types of articles can be assessed for usefulness from citation count. Granted, it is not the best strengthener because we don't know how nonacademic readership applies but it could still strengthen a bit.

(B) Length doesn't matter at all. We would be making unwarranted assumptions if we said length was important.

(C) So what? They are less available. Are they more useful or less useful? Why? Why not?

(E) This still has nothing to do with citation count and we can eliminate it quickly

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