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Attending to 'Computational Universalism': Practices, Frictions, Events. 参加“计算普遍主义”：实践，摩擦，事件。

IF 3 2区社会学

Social Studies of Science Pub Date : 2026-04-29 DOI: 10.1177/03063127261445803

Sarah R Davies,Miller Díaz-Valderrama

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Enacting Protected Areas Through Monitoring: Knowledge Practices as Multispecies Spatiotemporal Achievements in Neusiedler See–Seewinkel National Park 通过监测制定保护区：Neusiedler See-Seewinkel国家公园多物种时空成就的知识实践

IF 3 2区社会学

Social Studies of Science Pub Date : 2026-04-21 DOI: 10.1177/03063127261442140

Erik Aarden

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The Shifting 'Self' of Science's Self-Governing Capacity: Four Decades of Research Integrity Discussions in Science and Nature. 科学自我管理能力的“自我”转移：科学与自然研究诚信讨论的四十年。

IF 3.2 2区社会学

Social Studies of Science Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-07 DOI: 10.1177/03063127251392603

Ulrike Felt, Florentine Frantz

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The Dramaturgy of Science and Expertise at the World Anti-Doping Agency: Civic Epistemologies for Anti-Doping? 世界反兴奋剂机构的科学戏剧和专业知识：反兴奋剂的公民认识论？

IF 3 2区社会学

Social Studies of Science Pub Date : 2026-03-30 DOI: 10.1177/03063127261419157

Marjolaine Viret, Fabien Ohl

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Nuclear Decommissioning and the Political Economy of Waste: Exploring Nuclear Attachments in Italy. 核退役和废物的政治经济学：探索意大利的核附件。

IF 3 2区社会学

Social Studies of Science Pub Date : 2026-03-22 DOI: 10.1177/03063127261422445

Davide Orsini

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Socio-Epistemic Bubbles and Tacit Confidence in Randomized Controlled Trials. 随机对照试验中的社会认知泡沫和隐性信心。

IF 3 2区社会学

Social Studies of Science Pub Date : 2026-03-12 DOI: 10.1177/03063127251410234

Donghyun Kang,James Evans

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What Happens in Vegas Gets Hacked in Vegas: The Material Politics of DEF CON's Place. 在拉斯维加斯发生的事情在拉斯维加斯被黑客攻击：DEF CON的物质政治。

IF 3 2区社会学

Social Studies of Science Pub Date : 2026-03-09 DOI: 10.1177/03063127261420236

Lizao Wang

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Exclusionary data, inclusionary appeals: Gender and equity in an HIV-prevention clinical trial. 排除性数据，包容性申诉：艾滋病毒预防临床试验中的性别与公平。

IF 2.7 2区社会学

Social Studies of Science Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-27 DOI: 10.1177/03063127251349231

Jason V D'Amours, Miranda R Waggoner

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Production of Limited Commensurability in Crises: Expert Knowledge on Nuclear Accidents After Fukushima. 危机中有限通约性的产生：福岛核事故的专家知识。

IF 3 2区社会学

Social Studies of Science Pub Date : 2026-01-22 DOI: 10.1177/03063127251409339

Valerie Arnhold

{"title":"Production of Limited Commensurability in Crises: Expert Knowledge on Nuclear Accidents After Fukushima.","authors":"Valerie Arnhold","doi":"10.1177/03063127251409339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127251409339","url":null,"abstract":"How does knowledge production during crises challenge or maintain contemporary institutions? This article investigates expert knowledge on nuclear accidents in France in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi accident in March 2011. It examines the French and European 'lessons from Fukushima' learning exercise, using document analysis, interviews, and ethnographic observation of institutional experts' working practices. The article shows how nuclear safety experts produce limited commensurability. Specifically, through a comparative exercise, they render certain features of the Fukushima accident commensurable by relating them to a diversity of pre-existing evaluation scales and metrics of nuclear safety, while preventing different hypotheses, methods, and data from being brought to bear on nuclear safety. These operations rely on and consolidate experts' epistemic leeway, their discretionary ability to choose from several incommensurable epistemic resources. The article enhances our understanding of the politics of (in)commensurability for expert communities in the context of the pluralization of expert systems. It opens up questions about knowledge on crises, seeing these crises as episodes in which experts redefine the acceptable states of the world.","PeriodicalId":51152,"journal":{"name":"Social Studies of Science","volume":"142 1","pages":"3063127251409339"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146015113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Cruel Optimism of Plastics: Promissory Technologies and the Temporalities of Inaction 塑料的残酷乐观主义：有前途的技术和不作为的暂时性

IF 3 2区社会学

Social Studies of Science Pub Date : 2025-12-29 DOI: 10.1177/03063127251402996

Gauri Pathak, Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko, Mark Nichter

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