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Jacqueline Sachse: Nudging attention & shaping relevance. How citation rates influence academic literature assessment
Citations and altmetrics are prominently displayed in academic search systems, but what role do they actually play when researchers decide which literature…
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Cornelia Schendzielorz /Justo Serrano-Zamora /Staffan Edling: Science under pressure: Engaging with science and democracy in hybrid sites
Informationen zum Master-Studiengang Wissenschaftsforschung der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: https://hu.berlin/ma_wifo Science and politics are becoming…
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Claudia Göbel: A fresh look at science-public relations, their problems, and digital transformations
Informationen zum Master-Studiengang Wissenschaftsforschung der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: https://hu.berlin/ma_wifo The use of digital media in science…
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Susanne Wollin-Giering & Markus Hoffmann: Epistemic factors affecting the (dis)continuation of research with missing resources
This talk discusses the possibilities of researchers to continue their work in situations where access to previously held resources is constrained. We start…
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Yoanna Yankova/Jens Ambrasat: Promotion into the worse? Gendered culture in academia
The study examines whether and to what extent academic culture is gendered. The gendered implications of academic culture are analysed through academics'…
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Ayat Mirzaie/Masoumeh Qarakhani: Scientific professionalism under constraint: Associations, expertise boundaries, and external pressure
Scientific associations are often seen as neutral professional bodies, yet they are crucial institutional spaces where norms, credibility, and the boundaries…
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Dieter Plehwe: Science and think tanks: A complicated relationship
Policy research institutes (think-tanks) have become prominent actors. They are widely praised for their capacity to conduct relevant research, to innovate…
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Catherine Herfeld: Model Transfer and its Role in Awakening Sleeping Beauties in Science
Model transfer—the use of models developed in one domain to address problems in another—is widespread in science. Yet it remains underexplored, both…
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Veit Braun: Memories Are Made of This: Materielle Erinnerung in Biobanken
Biobanken werden mehr und mehr zu einer allgegenwärtigen Infrastruktur in der Zoologie und anderen Biowissenschaften. Sie versprechen, materielle…
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Paula Muhr: Limits to the Circulation of Epistemic Critique in the Recent Reanalyses of the EHT Images of the M87* Black Hole
In April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration that gathered over two hundred international scientists famously revealed the first empirical…
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Willem Halffman/Serge Horbach: The library and the database: two imaginaries for the research literature
Two competing imaginaries inform the current wave of innovations in research publishing: one that perceives ‘the literature’ as a library of research accounts…
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Sebastian Büttner: In der Wissenskrise? Politisierung von Wissen und Expertise als Herausforderung für die Soziologie
In aktuellen politischen Debatten etwa zur Klimapolitik oder zu Corona ist einmal mehr deutlich geworden, dass es sehr unterschiedliche Vorstellungen zur…
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Sheena F. Bartscherer/Sven Ulpts/Bart Penders/Sarahanne Field: The (anti)social replication of replication: exploring how replication moves across epistemic communities
Since claims about a ‘replication crisis’ started to circulate, the concept and practice of replication have gained new momentum. Some communities have started…
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Marco Seeber: The evolution of the scientific publishing market, its drivers and implications
The seminar describes the dramatic transformation of the scientific publishing market in the last 30 years. It discusses the forces underpinning this process…
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Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri & Jie Xu: The big transformation? Early Career Researchers as they race in the open scholarly world. Perspectives from France and China
In the ever-changing world of Academia, rules and values are at stake. These form the basis of new regulations, including openness. The Harbinger research…
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Jesper W. Schneider: Questionable Research Practices, what are they and so should we worry?
Prof. Jesper W. Schneider (Aarhus University, Denmark) will introduce and discuss the concepts of questionable research practices and misconduct. We will…
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Christian Greiffenhagen: Judging importance before checking correctness: quick opinions in mathematical peer review
Peer review has never been a uniform practice, but is now more diverse than ever. Despite a vast literature, little is known of how different disciplines…
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Monika Krause: The model systems of global science
The talk explores the role of models and model systems in the production of scientific knowledge in the context of the institutions and inequalities of…
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Julian Hamann: Orientierung und Überlastung: Postdocs im multiplen Wettbewerb
Der Postdoc-Phase wurde als zentraler Qualifizierungsphase zuletzt auch wissenschaftspolitisch viel Aufmerksamkeit zuteil. Doch die Rolle von Postdocs ist…
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Tanja Bogusz: Meereswissen explorieren. Heterogene Kollaborationen an der Station Marine Concarneau
Biologische Stationen wurden in den STS bislang maßgeblich als „Grenzobjekte“ (Star & Griesemer) zwischen Feld und Labor (Kohler) untersucht. Im Gegensatz zu…
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Berna Devezer: Claims about scientific rigour require rigour
Protzko et al. describe a project in which internal tests of pilot-tested hypotheses and independent replications embraced “rigour-enhancing practices” such as…
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Amelia Acker: Platform Power and Data Integration Services in Scientific Infrastructure
This talk examines how commercial cloud services and data integration platforms are shaping scientific knowledge infrastructure and institutional approaches to…
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Martin Reinhart & Felicitas Hesselmann: From scandal to reform: approaches to research integrity at a turning point
This talk explores the historical evolution of scandals related to academic integrity and their implications for the relationship between science and politics…
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Björn Hammarfelt & Gustaf Nelhans: Styles of valuation: Disciplinary differences in assessing research
Academic disciplines have distinctive ways of valuing research. These differences exist not only across fields but also between collegial and organisational…
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Catalina Quiroz-Niño, Ana María Villafuerte & Margaret Meredith: Hermeneutical Justice in International Projects
International research collaborations can base their research focus, questions and interpretations of the issue on Western assumptions of knowledge. This can…
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Justo Serrano Zamora: Liberal Epistemologies, Participatory Initiatives, and the Current Existential Crisis of Democracy
In my talk, I explore two main responses to democracy’s current existential crisis and their mutual relation. On the one hand, many argue that we should…
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Sarah Schönbauer: Meeresforschung zwischen Wissenschaft und Aktivismus
Der Klimawandel führt zu vielschichtigen und komplexen Veränderungen. Diese Veränderungen bringen unter anderem soziale, epistemische, ökonomische und…
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Stefan Skupien: Defining science for and in ‘Eastern Germany’ in right-wing populism
Defining Science for and in ‘Eastern Germany’ in right-wing populism “Eastern Germany”, as a socio-political and geographical region, hosts significant…
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Malte Jansen/ Aishvarya Aravindan Rajagopal: The Reproducibility and Robustness of Secondary Analyses in Educational Research: The Role of Publication Bias and Researcher Degrees of Freedom
Many educational researchers conduct secondary data analysis using large-scale school assessment studies that usually include various variables based on…
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Stefanie Haustein: Challenges of closed vs opportunities of open: A data feminist reflection on the bibliometrics community’s shift to open infrastructure
For decades, research assessment infrastructure has been shaped by closed, centralized systems that prioritize selectivity, reinforce hierarchies, and define…
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Cornelia Schendzielorz/Martin Reinhart: The role of research collaborations in the governance of science (Vortrag auf Deutsch)
Our contribution is dedicated to the topic of large research collaborations. We frame the issue of large research collaborations in the context of their long…
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Holger Straßheim: Politische Epistemologie
Der Beitrag setzt sich mit Perspektiven der politischen Epistemologie auseinander, die sich mittlerweile zu einem soziologischen, politikwissenschaftlichen…
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Julia Baumann: Cultures of no-feeling? Ethnografische Gefühlswelten im deutschen akademischen Arbeitsalltag
Die akademische Kultur ist eine Kultur, in der Gefühle abwesend sind - eine Kultur des 'Nicht-Gefühls'. [...], aber Gefühle sind in der Wissenschaft reichlich…
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Marianne Noel & Lucile Ottolini: Opening up science as a work: An international comparison of openness to society and openness of publication
The last twenty years of open science advocacy and the more recent proliferation of programs and funding have shown that open science has become a veritable…
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Henning Laux: Dummheit – eine soziologische Kartographie
Der Vortrag stellt erste Überlegungen zu einer Soziologie der Dummheit vor. Dummheit wird dabei als systematisch vernachlässigte, aber konstitutive Außenseite…
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Anna Ahlers: China als neue Wissenschaftsmacht - soziologische Annäherungen
Zu den interessantesten Entwicklungen im gegenwärtigen globalen Wissenschaftsystem gehört der rasante Aufstieg der Volksrepublik China. Als kollektiver Akteur…
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Olof Hallonsten: Stop evaluating science – a historical-sociological argument
Although science has been a formidably successful force of social and technological development in the modern era, and a main reason for the wealth and…
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Dimity Stephen & Meta Cramer: Predatory publishing practices: Paper tigers or actual threats from evaluation systems?
The recent shift in evaluation systems to more diverse quality criteria has increased the visibility of lower quality research, incurring a moral panic about…
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Marta Wróblewska: From centre to (semi)periphery: policy-making in the area of research impact evaluation in UK, Poland and Norway
The talk will offer a comparative review of policy-making in the area of research impact evaluation in UK (REF), Poland (EJDD) and Norway (Humeval and…
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Georgia Samaras: What’s it got to do with the brain? Challenges in doing clinical relevance in epigenetic research on mental health
The talk explores the epistemic dynamics catalysed by researchers advocating for the clinical relevance of environmental epigenetics in psychiatry. I do so…
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Nicole Nelson: Reproducibility reforms in American biomedicine and the diffusion of the “regulatory ethos”
Recent scholarship has described the “reproducibility crisis” and its associated reform movement as a social movement or a scientific-intellectual movement…
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Sven Arend Ulpts: From the Researcher to the Integrity of Knowledge Production
Research guidelines and the scientific literature in general are full of ideas and recommendations of how proper science should look like. However, it remains…
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Thomas Wahl: Re-imagining humanness. Popular science narratives of AI futures
In the case of artificial intelligence, hyperbolic predictions of the emergence of intelligent machines, even ‘super intelligences’, consist of both dystopian…