Public in this article does not just mean "visible to the public." Nor does it mean location where the scholarship is situation. Instead the author refers to knowledge workers who (1) interact with member of the public, (2) as part of larger public discourse (voices not limited to advance degree-holders), (3) often of consequence to stakeholders widely around the public landscape both private, governmental, and corporate. Compare "public scholarship" with concepts such as "public intellectual" and projects taken up in a field like "public anthropology" (issues of large scale, special persistence, or of a particularly complex nature).
Article title, "Academe Should Value the Impact Factor of Public Scholarship"
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