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From what I retain of the history of the social and human sciences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the key argument by Svante Lindqvist is intuitively convincing and plausible. For these fields we cannot draw on empirical data derived from the award of Nobel Prizes. Historical records and surveys of commissions in Germany, Britain, Switzerland and in Scandinavia, reviewing the state of the social sciences in these countries in a comparative perspective, suggest that, despite the numerical preponderance of North American disciplines, there is no reason to assign preeminence in terms of original research contributions in these scholarly fields to disciplines in the United States vis-à-vis Europe, at least not when it comes to historically and theoretically oriented types of research.
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Wittrock, B. (2006). The Legacy of Wilhelm von Humboldt and the Future of the European University. In: Blückert, K., Neave, G., Nybom, T. (eds) The European Research University. Issues in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-10079-5_9
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