Paul N. Edwards, A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Book ReviewPages 1-5DOI 10.1007/s11024-012-9216-4Authors
Gabriele Gramelsberger, Department of Philosophy and Hum…
Abstract In Portugal, as elsewhere, the rhetoric of managerialism in higher education is becoming firmly entrenched in the governmental
policymakers’ discourse and has been widely disseminated across the institutional landscape. Manageria…
Abstract Despite major changes in the governance of universities overtly intended to transform them into authoritatively integrated
collectivities, the extent of their organisational actorhood remains quite limited and varied between OECD c…
Abstract This article improves our understanding of the reasons underlying the intellectual migration of scientists from existing cognitive
domains to nascent scientific fields. To that purpose we present, first, a number of findings from t…
Abstract Research in the social sciences received generous patronage in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Research was widely perceived
as providing solutions to emerging social problems. That generosity came under increased contest in the la…
Abstract Innovation has become a very popular concept over the twentieth century. However, few have stopped to study the origins of
the category and to critically examine the studies produced on innovation. This paper conducts such an analy…
Abstract This article examines the communication networks within and between science and technology studies (STS) and the history of
science. In particular, journal relatedness data are used to analyze some of the structural features of the…
Minerva – 50 Years Reflecting on Science in Society
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory EditorialPages 255-259DOI 10.1007/s11024-012-9209-3Authors
Peter Weingart, Institute for Science and Technology Studies (IWT), University of Bielefeld, P.O. Box…
Abstract This article analyzes the transformation of Minerva from an intellectual towards a scholarly journal by making use of bibliometric methods. The aim is to provide some empirical
insights that help to understand what properties of th…
Abstract The use of the phrase “basic research” as a term used in science policy discussion dates only to about 1920. At the time the
phrase referred to what we today commonly refer to as applied research in support of specific missions…
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