National report on joint and open programmes THE UNITED KINGDOM Disclaimer: The opinions expresse... more National report on joint and open programmes THE UNITED KINGDOM Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this study are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission. Joint and Open Research Programme (JOREP)
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this study are those of the authors and do not necessarily ... more Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this study are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission. JOINT AND OPEN RESEARCH PROGRAMMES (JOREP)
The series constitute 'ideas in progress' after the notion described by I.J. Good in '... more The series constitute 'ideas in progress' after the notion described by I.J. Good in 'The Scientist Speculates.' Good also describes ideas about ideas as 'partly baked ideas' believing that " ... it is often better to be stimulating and wrong than boring and right. " While these papers do not take this tenet as an excuse for licence at the expense of rigour, they are exploratory and the ideas may change as a theme is developed over time. " The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday-but never jam today. " Lewis Carroll, " Through the Looking-Glass, The Walrus and the Carpenter, " Chapter 5
This article offers a framework for the study of research governance effects on scientific fields... more This article offers a framework for the study of research governance effects on scientific fields framed by notions of research quality and the epistemic, organizational, and career choices they entail. The framework interprets the contested idea of ‘quality’ as an interplay involving notion origins, quality attributes, and contextual sites. We mobilize the origin and site components, to frame organizational-level events where quality notions inform selections, or selection events. Through the dynamic interplay between notions selected at specific sites, we contend, local actors enact research quality cumulatively, by making choices that privilege certain notions over others. In this article, we contribute in four ways. First, we propose an approach to study research governance effects on scientific fields. Second, we introduce first- and second-level effects of research governance paving the way to identify mechanisms through which these different levels of effects occur. Third, we...
SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:GPE/1742 / BLDSC - British Library... more SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:GPE/1742 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo
We study how differing social and intellectual organisation of research fields (Nedeva, 2013) aff... more We study how differing social and intellectual organisation of research fields (Nedeva, 2013) affect research processes and performance. Citations are most often used as a proxy of intellectual influence, yet underperform in research fields with unconventional publishing or citing behaviours. We address this challenge using an indicative example of heavy flavour physics (HFP), a research field in particle physics organised around very large, frequently publishing collaborations with stable groupings of hundreds of alphabetically listed authors. The apparent intellectual contribution or influence of assumed authorship order would be affected significantly if bibliometrics were used to study HFP (Birnholtz, 2006; Manganote et al., 2016). Instead we re-purpose a form of co-nomination analysis, and snowball sampling, previously used to map expert networks in foresight, R&D evaluation and innovation studies (Fagerberg and Verspagen, 2009; Nedeva et al., 1996). Our results allow us to stu...
National report on joint and open programmes THE UNITED KINGDOM Disclaimer: The opinions expresse... more National report on joint and open programmes THE UNITED KINGDOM Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this study are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission. Joint and Open Research Programme (JOREP)
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this study are those of the authors and do not necessarily ... more Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this study are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission. JOINT AND OPEN RESEARCH PROGRAMMES (JOREP)
The series constitute 'ideas in progress' after the notion described by I.J. Good in '... more The series constitute 'ideas in progress' after the notion described by I.J. Good in 'The Scientist Speculates.' Good also describes ideas about ideas as 'partly baked ideas' believing that " ... it is often better to be stimulating and wrong than boring and right. " While these papers do not take this tenet as an excuse for licence at the expense of rigour, they are exploratory and the ideas may change as a theme is developed over time. " The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday-but never jam today. " Lewis Carroll, " Through the Looking-Glass, The Walrus and the Carpenter, " Chapter 5
This article offers a framework for the study of research governance effects on scientific fields... more This article offers a framework for the study of research governance effects on scientific fields framed by notions of research quality and the epistemic, organizational, and career choices they entail. The framework interprets the contested idea of ‘quality’ as an interplay involving notion origins, quality attributes, and contextual sites. We mobilize the origin and site components, to frame organizational-level events where quality notions inform selections, or selection events. Through the dynamic interplay between notions selected at specific sites, we contend, local actors enact research quality cumulatively, by making choices that privilege certain notions over others. In this article, we contribute in four ways. First, we propose an approach to study research governance effects on scientific fields. Second, we introduce first- and second-level effects of research governance paving the way to identify mechanisms through which these different levels of effects occur. Third, we...
SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:GPE/1742 / BLDSC - British Library... more SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:GPE/1742 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo
We study how differing social and intellectual organisation of research fields (Nedeva, 2013) aff... more We study how differing social and intellectual organisation of research fields (Nedeva, 2013) affect research processes and performance. Citations are most often used as a proxy of intellectual influence, yet underperform in research fields with unconventional publishing or citing behaviours. We address this challenge using an indicative example of heavy flavour physics (HFP), a research field in particle physics organised around very large, frequently publishing collaborations with stable groupings of hundreds of alphabetically listed authors. The apparent intellectual contribution or influence of assumed authorship order would be affected significantly if bibliometrics were used to study HFP (Birnholtz, 2006; Manganote et al., 2016). Instead we re-purpose a form of co-nomination analysis, and snowball sampling, previously used to map expert networks in foresight, R&D evaluation and innovation studies (Fagerberg and Verspagen, 2009; Nedeva et al., 1996). Our results allow us to stu...
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