In my last post I commented on the interesting phenomenon of scientific publishing on Researchgate, enabling researchers to reach a large readership rather quickly while maintaining high academic standards and while inviting scrutiny from specialists.
Well, my Rhosyfelin working paper has achieved 600 reads in a period of three years.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307551709_Craig_Rhos-y-felin_is_NOT_shown_to_be_a_Welsh_bluestone_megalith_quarry_for_Stonehenge
But now my Carn Goedog working paper is being scrutinized even more quickly, with over 300 reads in just 5 months. Most of the readers must be archaeologists, although not one of them has challenged anything contained in the paper.
Brian John (2019) Carn Goedog and the question of the "bluestone megalith quarry"
Researchgate Working Paper, 25 pp.
April 2019
DOI:
10.13140/RG.2.2.12677.81121
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332739336_Carn_Goedog_and_the_question_of_the_bluestone_megalith_quarry
Here is another working paper, this time dealing with both of the "quarrying" sites:
September 2016
DOI:
10.13140/RG.2.2.23379.17446
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307557574_Those_bluestone_quarries_--_the_manufacturing_of_a_modern_myth_Greencroft_Working_Paper_No_3
This has had over 250 reads since publication 3 years ago. This is the article which I was thinking of submitting to Current Archaeology magazine, but my approaches were ignored by the editorial team. The top brass are clearly not into the publication of articles that rock the boat........
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