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Panel 3 – arts
3.3 Research quality
Professor Greger Andersson was during the period under consideration
here leader of a broad interdisciplinary project at the national level
(funded by the Swedish research council) on “Fear, Fascination and
Friendship. Swedish culture and science under the influence of Nazism
and Fascism 1930–1950”. The project resulted in books, articles and
conference papers in German and English as well as in Swedish and
demonstrates collaboration at the national level as well as internationally.
A similar approach is demonstrated in other publications (e.g. about
Shostakovich) from this division of the department.
In both Art history and Musicology a very high proportion of publications
are books or contributions to books, a bibliometric emphasis on
output in terms of articles in journals is thus not adequate.
Productivity: With 43 publications, working papers and conference contributions
in Swedish, English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese
between 2002 and 2007 Göran Sonesson’s research output is remarkable
and demonstrates his full integration in the international community in
the field as a highly respected scholar.
The publications in the field of Art and Visual studies are with some
exceptions in Swedish and published in Sweden; the subject matter is predominantly
Swedish, yet a number of international subjects are taken up.
It is worth underscoring that a number of publications are of a theoretical
character, among them several of the publications in English. There are so
radical differences between the output of the least productive and the most
productive employees that it does not make sense to consider the average
number of publications. Within the period under consideration the numbers
are within the range of on one hand 19 publications plus 1 book from
2003–2007 and on the other hand zero publications since 2001. A group
of scholars in the field are at the level of between 2 and 4 publications a
year (including books), this part of the area is thus working fine, yet not
even a minimal general norm seems to be enforced in general. 4
4. At a very late stage the panel received the information that professor Weimarck during
2002–04 was leading a project financed by the Swedish Research Council on ”Design and
Vidual culture in Sweden after World War II”, the contributions are not yet published.
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