pseudoscholarship

Noun

pseudo-scholarship (countable and uncountable, plural pseudo-scholarships)

1. (uncountable) Any body of publications purported to be scholarly or supported by critical scholarship but which fails to comply with scholarly standards.
   • […] if we had possessed much more of the patristic history and literature, our pseudo-scholarship, the natural worship of antiquity, and the spirit of prelatic superstition, would only have used them as so many stronger entrenchments […] ('Mr. Cooper's "Free Church of Ancient Christendom"', The...
2. (countable) An arrangement that in effect grants a scholarship to a student, without being considered on a par with a real or standard scholarship
   • […] the exceptional close Scholarships would be felt to be something less honourable than the average Scholarship, in fact, as a sort of Pseudo-scholarship. (Report and evidence upon the recommendations of Her Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring into the state of the University of Oxford...