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Modelling and measuring the dynamics of scientific communication
Lucio-Arias, D.
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2010
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Lucio-Arias, D. (2010). Modelling and measuring the dynamics of scientific communication.
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Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ...VII
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION... 1
1.CASE STUDIES... 9
2.OUTLINE OF THE DISSERTATION... 10
CHAPTER 2. THE DYNAMICS OF EXCHANGES AND REFERENCES AMONG SCIENTIFIC TEXTS, AND THE AUTOPOIESIS OF DISCURSIVE KNOWLEDGE... 13
ABSTRACT... 13
1.INTRODUCTION... 13
2.THE AUTOPOIETIC OPERATION OF THE SCIENCE SYSTEM... 14
3.THE COMMUNICATIVE TURN... 19
3.1. Mechanisms of growth and change... 22
3.2. Specialization and self-organization... 24
3.3. Configurational information ... 26
3.4. Interactions with other social systems ... 29
4.CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION... 30
CHAPTER 3. KNOWLEDGE EMERGENCE IN SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION: FROM “FULLERENES” TO “NANOTUBES” ... 33 ABSTRACT... 33 1.INTRODUCTION... 33 2.ON SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION... 34 3.METHODOLOGY... 36 3.1 Journals ... 36
3.2 Codification of meaning in time and space... 37
3.3 Citations... 38
4.RESULTS... 39
4.1 Journal differentiation ... 40
4.2 Codification of meaning in time and space... 47
4.3 Citation behavior ... 58
5.CONCLUSIONS... 64
6.FURTHER WORK... 65
CHAPTER 4. MAIN-PATH ANALYSIS AND PATH-DEPENDENT TRANSITIONS IN HISTCITE™-BASED HISTORIOGRAMS ... 67 ABSTRACT... 67 1.INTRODUCTION... 67 2.METHODS... 70 2.1. HistCite ... 70 3.2. Main-Path Analysis... 72
3.3. Path Dependency and Critical Transitions... 73
3.RESULTS... 76
4.“CITING” VERSUS “CITED”... 86
5.CONCLUSIONS... 90
CHAPTER 5. AN INDICATOR OF RESEARCH FRONT ACTIVITY: MEASURING INTELLECTUAL ORGANIZATION AS UNCERTAINTY REDUCTION IN DOCUMENT SETS93 ABSTRACT... 93
1.INTRODUCTION... 93
2.MUTUAL AND CONFIGURATIONAL INFORMATION... 97
3.DATA... 99
4.FULLERENES AND NANOTUBES... 101
5.“CITATIONS” AND “PARADIGMS” ... 102
6.SCIENTOMETRICS AS A FURTHER SPECIALIZATION OF THE INFORMATION SCIENCES... 106
7.CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION... 109
1.SUMMARY... 114
2.METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS... 119
3.THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS... 120
4.LIMITATIONS AND FURTHER WORK... 123
REFERENCES ... 125
SAMENVATTING (DUTCH SUMMARY)... 137
