IF 2.3 2区哲学

Minerva Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Epub Date: 2015-12-28 DOI: 10.1007/s11024-015-9287-0

Wil G Pansters, Henk J van Rinsum

引用次数: 6

The Evaluation Scale: Exploring Decisions About Societal Impact in Peer Review Panels. 评价量表：探索同行评审小组关于社会影响的决定。

IF 2.3 2区哲学

Minerva Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Epub Date: 2016-02-09 DOI: 10.1007/s11024-016-9290-0

Gemma E Derrick, Gabrielle N Samuel

引用次数: 0

The EPSRC's Policy of Responsible Innovation from a Trading Zones Perspective. 从贸易区的角度看 EPSRC 的负责任创新政策。

IF 2.3 2区哲学

Minerva Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Epub Date: 2016-03-23 DOI: 10.1007/s11024-016-9294-9

Joseph Murphy, Sarah Parry, John Walls

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Unsustainable Growth, Hyper-Competition, and Worth in Life Science Research: Narrowing Evaluative Repertoires in Doctoral and Postdoctoral Scientists' Work and Lives. 生命科学研究的不可持续增长、超竞争和价值:缩小博士和博士后科学家工作和生活的评估库。

IF 2.3 2区哲学

Minerva Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Epub Date: 2016-03-04 DOI: 10.1007/s11024-016-9292-y

Maximilian Fochler, Ulrike Felt, Ruth Müller

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引用次数: 6

'Excellence' and Exclusion: The Individual Costs of Institutional Competitiveness. “卓越”与排斥:制度竞争力的个体成本。

IF 2.3 2区哲学

Minerva Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Epub Date: 2016-05-04 DOI: 10.1007/s11024-016-9298-5

Richard Watermeyer, Mark Olssen

引用次数: 1

Accounting for Impact? The Journal Impact Factor and the Making of Biomedical Research in the Netherlands. 影响会计？期刊影响因子与荷兰生物医学研究的发展》。

IF 2.3 2区哲学

Minerva Pub Date : 2015-01-01 DOI: 10.1007/s11024-015-9274-5

Alexander Rushforth, Sarah de Rijcke

{"title":"Accounting for Impact? The Journal Impact Factor and the Making of Biomedical Research in the Netherlands.","authors":"Alexander Rushforth, Sarah de Rijcke","doi":"10.1007/s11024-015-9274-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11024-015-9274-5","url":null,"abstract":"The range and types of performance metrics has recently proliferated in academic settings, with bibliometric indicators being particularly visible examples. One field that has traditionally been hospitable towards such indicators is biomedicine. Here the relative merits of bibliometrics are widely discussed, with debates often portraying them as heroes or villains. Despite a plethora of controversies, one of the most widely used indicators in this field is said to be the Journal Impact Factor (JIF). In this article we argue that much of the current debates around researchers' uses of the JIF in biomedicine can be classed as 'folk theories': explanatory accounts told among a community that seldom (if ever) get systematically checked. Such accounts rarely disclose how knowledge production itself becomes more-or-less consolidated around the JIF. Using ethnographic materials from different research sites in Dutch University Medical Centers, this article sheds new empirical and theoretical light on how performance metrics variously shape biomedical research on the 'shop floor.' Our detailed analysis underscores a need for further research into the constitutive effects of evaluative metrics.","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":"53 2","pages":"117-139"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4469321/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33408891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Academic Manifesto: From an Occupied to a Public University. 学术宣言:从占领大学到公立大学。

IF 2.3 2区哲学

Minerva Pub Date : 2015-01-01 DOI: 10.1007/s11024-015-9270-9

Willem Halffman, Hans Radder

引用次数: 107

What is Basic Research? Insights from Historical Semantics. 什么是基础研究？历史语义学的启示

IF 3.2 2区哲学

Minerva Pub Date : 2014-01-01 DOI: 10.1007/s11024-014-9255-0

Désirée Schauz

{"title":"What is Basic Research? Insights from Historical Semantics.","authors":"Désirée Schauz","doi":"10.1007/s11024-014-9255-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11024-014-9255-0","url":null,"abstract":"For some years now, the concept of basic research has been under attack. Yet although the significance of the concept is in doubt, basic research continues to be used as an analytical category in science studies. But what exactly is basic research? What is the difference between basic and applied research? This article seeks to answer these questions by applying historical semantics. I argue that the concept of basic research did not arise out of the tradition of pure science. On the contrary, this new concept emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a time when scientists were being confronted with rising expectations regarding the societal utility of science. Scientists used the concept in order to try to bridge the gap between the promise of utility and the uncertainty of scientific endeavour. Only after 1945, when United States science policy shaped the notion of basic research, did the concept revert to the older ideals of pure science. This revival of the purity discourse was caused by the specific historical situation in the US at that time: the need to reform federal research policy after the Second World War, the new dimension of ethical dilemmas in science and technology during the atomic era, and the tense political climate during the Cold War.","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":"52 ","pages":"273-328"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4141150/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10341140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Why New Hybrid Organizations are Formed: Historical Perspectives on Epistemic and Academic Drift. 为什么会形成新的混合组织？认识论和学术漂移的历史视角》。

IF 3.2 2区哲学

Minerva Pub Date : 2013-06-01 DOI: 10.1007/s11024-013-9226-x

Thomas Kaiserfeld

{"title":"Why New Hybrid Organizations are Formed: Historical Perspectives on Epistemic and Academic Drift.","authors":"Thomas Kaiserfeld","doi":"10.1007/s11024-013-9226-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11024-013-9226-x","url":null,"abstract":"By comparing three types of hybrid organizations-18th-century scientific academies, 19th-century institutions of higher vocational education, and 20th-century industrial research institutes-it is the purpose here to answer the question of why new hybrid organizations are continuously formed. Traditionally, and often implicitly, it is often assumed that emerging groups of potential knowledge users have their own organizational preferences and demands influencing the setup of new hybrid organizations. By applying the concepts epistemic and academic drift, it will be argued here, however, that internal organizational dynamics are just as important as changing historical conjunctures in the uses of science when understanding why new hybrid organizations are formed. Only seldom have older hybrid organizations sought to make themselves relevant to new categories of knowledge users as the original ones have been marginalized. Instead, they have tended to accede to ideals supported by traditional academic organizations with higher status in terms of knowledge management, primarily universities. Through this process, demand has been generated for the founding of new hybrid organizations rather than the transformation of existing ones. Although this study focuses on Swedish cases, it is argued that since Sweden strove consistently to implement existing international policy trends during the periods in question, the observations may be generalized to apply to other national and transnational contexts.","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":"51 2","pages":"171-194"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3655215/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31534180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Coordination in the Science System: Theoretical Framework and a Case Study of an Intermediary Organization. 科学系统中的协调:理论框架与中介组织的个案研究。

IF 2.3 2区哲学

Minerva Pub Date : 2013-01-01 DOI: 10.1007/s11024-013-9230-1

Laurens K Hessels

{"title":"Coordination in the Science System: Theoretical Framework and a Case Study of an Intermediary Organization.","authors":"Laurens K Hessels","doi":"10.1007/s11024-013-9230-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-013-9230-1","url":null,"abstract":"Many science systems are witnessing the rise of intermediary organizations with a coordinating mission, but to date a systematic understanding of their function and effects is lacking. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the coordinating efforts of intermediary organizations. Starting from the definition of coordination as the establishment or strengthening of a relationship among the activities in a system, with the aim to enhance their common effectiveness, I develop a heuristic framework that facilitates the systematic analysis of coordination in science. I illustrate and substantiate my framework with the empirical case study of a Dutch coordination task force in the area of chemical technologies. Thanks to the framework I could disentangle a number of functions that this task force fulfils concerning research programming, funding allocation and supporting interactions and collaborations. This approach enabled me to systematically analyse a very heterogeneous set of processes that each deserve to be called coordination. The analysis yields a clear overview of eight coordination processes that are each described in terms of activities, intervention, relationships, mechanisms and performance. I conclude my paper with suggestions for further research on coordination in the science system.","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":"51 ","pages":"317-339"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11024-013-9230-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31661077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

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