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Could I Write Like Carol Weiss?
Academic papers in the social sciences were once more essayistic in their form. The carefree launching of concepts and ideas of academic value were...
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Science and Innovation: A Cyclical Approach
To formally understand cyclicity in innovation and to tie to Schumpeter’s idea about waves of creative destruction, we elaborate upon Thomas Kuhn’s...
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The Persistence of Gender Inequality in e-Science: The Case of eSec
E-science, or networked, collaborative and multidisciplinary scientific research on a shared e-infrastructure using computational tools, methods and...
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From Effects of Governance to Causes of Epistemic Change
In this paper I argue that the attempts by science studies to identify epistemic effects of new governance instruments have largely failed. I suggest...
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What is the Space for “Place” in Social Studies of Astronomy?
All large-scale telescope facilities are constructed within a geographical, social, historical, and political context that includes nested layers at...
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Map** Approaches to ‘Citizen Science’ and ‘Community Science’ and Everything In-between: The Evolution of New Epistemic Territory?
Over the last decade or so, the rate of growth of academic publications involving discussion of ‘citizen science’ and ‘community science’, and...
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An Uneasy Peace: How STEM Progressive, Traditionalist, and Bridging Faculty Understand Campus Conflicts over Diversity, Anti-Racism, and Free Expression
In recent years an uneasy peace has descended in U.S. academe between those who feel research universities have done too little to advance the...
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Making Science Relevant: Comparing Two Science Advisory Organizations Beyond the Linear Knowledge Model
This article compares two science advisory organizations: the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) and the International Council for the...
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Readjustment of Returning Scholars: Experiences of Cambodian Researchers
Many develo** countries prioritize sponsoring graduate students to study abroad to bring expertise and knowledge to their home country. However,...
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Political Speech on Campus: Shifting the Emphasis from “if” to “how”
Universities in many liberal democracies, such as the US, the UK, or Germany, grapple with a pivotal question: how much room should be given to...
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Citation Elites in Polytheistic and Umbrella Disciplines: Patterns of Stratification and Concentration in Danish and British Science
The notion of science as a stratified system is clearly manifested in the markedly uneven distribution of productivity, rewards, resources, and...
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Evaluation Practices of Doctoral Examination Committees: Boundary-Work Under Pressure
The doctorate forms the basis for academic careers and the regeneration of academia, and has increasingly become important for other sectors of...
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Structural Power and Epistemologies in the Scientific Field: Why a Rapid Reconciliation Between Functional and Evolutionary Biology is Unlikely
The past decade has been marked by a series of global crises, presenting an opportunity to reevaluate the relationship between science and politics....
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Map** the German Diamond Open Access Journal Landscape
In the current scientific and political discourse surrounding the transformation of the scientific publication system, significant attention is...
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The Feeling Rules of Peer Review: Defining, Displaying, and Managing Emotions in Evaluation for Research Funding
Punctuated by joy, disappointments, and conflicts, research evaluation constitutes an intense, emotional moment in scientific life. Yet reviewers and...
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New Arguments for a pure lottery in Research Funding: A Sketch for a Future Science Policy Without Time-Consuming Grant Competitions
A critical debate has blossomed within the field of research policy, science and technology studies, and philosophy of science regarding the possible...