Next, an internet search using Google was conducted to find the authors’ CVs based
on the author’s full name and his/her institutional affiliation. Sixty-six CVs were found,
of which only 57 included sufficient information for this article and in which authors
published at least half of his/her refereed journal articles in areas that are traditionally
considered to be part of the field of EA (as they are reflected in major textbooks of the
field). These CVs account for 24.2 per cent of the total authorship in 2004-2007 in the
three major journals that constitute the database of this paper. It should be noted,
however, that these CVs represent those authors who chose to upload their CVs onto
the internet, a decision that may well have some influence on the sample. No attempt
has been made to collect CVs through e-mail or postal correspondence due to the
author’s limited ability to analyse potentially hundreds of CVs as well as the
assumption that the 57 CVs represents, by and large, the professoriate in the field. One
must concede this as a possible limitation of this article.