The Challenge of Scientometrics
Loet Leydesdorff
Broschiertes Buch

The Challenge of Scientometrics

The Development, Measurement, and Self-Organization of Scientific Communications

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Scientometrics--the quantitative study of scientific communication--challenges science and technology studies by demonstrating that organized knowledge production and control is amenable to measurement. First, the various dimensions of the empirical study of the sciences are clarified in a methodological analysis of theoretical traditions, including the sociology of scientific knowledge and neo-conventionalism in the philosophy of science. Second, the author argues why the mathematical theory of communication enables us to address crucial problems in science and technology studies, both on the...