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Robert K. Merton Zentrum für Wissenschaftsforschung

Der Podcast des Robert K. Merton Zentrums für Wissenschaftsforschung

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00:51:39

Malte Jansen/ Aishvarya Aravindan Rajagopal: The...

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2025/04/09

Many educational researchers conduct secondary data analysis using large-scale school assessment studies that usually include various variables based on representative samples. To access such data, researchers must often apply by submitting a research proposal. Our project aims to examine the reproducibility and robustness of secondary data analyses from a research data center that offers over 70 educational studies for secondary analyses. This approach provides us with a unique database of data

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00:49:17

Stefanie Haustein: Challenges of closed vs...

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2025/03/26

For decades, research assessment infrastructure has been shaped by closed, centralized systems that prioritize selectivity, reinforce hierarchies, and define what counts as scholarly impact. This talk traces the historical evolution of bibliometrics, from the first citation analysis in the early 20th century via the revolutionary development of the Science Citation Index to the dominance of commercial data analytics companies like Clarivate and Elsevier today. The talk will highlight how these

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00:41:13

Cornelia Schendzielorz/Martin Reinhart: The role of...

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2025/03/19

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 history in the study of science, which is closely related to the notion of Big Science (De Solla Price 1963). Beyond the quantitative growth of science in various aspects such as publications, journals, personnel, funding, etc., we focus our attention on the fact that considering the big picture of science implies taking into account the social

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00:39:07

Holger Straßheim: Politische Epistemologie

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2025/03/05

Der Beitrag setzt sich mit Perspektiven der politischen Epistemologie auseinander, die sich mittlerweile zu einem soziologischen, politikwissenschaftlichen, philosophischen und historischen Brückenkonzept entwickelt hat. Trotz unterschiedlicher disziplinärer Zugänge lassen sich gemeinsame Kernelemente und ähnliche Theoriestrategien ausmachen: Immer geht es dabei um die Identifikation jener Mechanismen, die Erkenntnis und Ordnung, Expertise und Entscheiden miteinander vermitteln. Politische

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00:36:51

Julia Baumann: Cultures of no-feeling? Ethnografische...

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2025/02/26

Die akademische Kultur ist eine Kultur, in der Gefühle abwesend sind - eine Kultur des 'Nicht-Gefühls'. [...], aber Gefühle sind in der Wissenschaft reichlich vorhanden" (Bloch, 2012: 140, übersetzt aus dem Englischen von JB), schließt Charlotte Bloch ihre ethnografische Studie Passion and Paranoia zu akademischen Emotionskulturen in Dänemark.Auf der Grundlage meiner ethnographischen Feldforschung (2019-2022) werde ich darlegen, wie eben diese „academic cultures of no-feeling“ den

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00:29:40

Marianne Noel & Lucile Ottolini: Opening up science...

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2025/02/19

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 mantra. In this communication we deliberately adopt a perspective of the sociology of work and of professions: rather than examining discourses on openness, we focus on the missions, experiences and profiles, as well as the practices, of professionals whose daily work is devoted to ‘opening up’ science. We propose to analyse the opening up of

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00:35:48

Henning Laux: Dummheit – eine soziologische Kartographie

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2025/02/12

Der Vortrag stellt erste Überlegungen zu einer Soziologie der Dummheit vor. Dummheit wird dabei als systematisch vernachlässigte, aber konstitutive Außenseite der Wissensgesellschaft interpretiert. Im Vortrag sollen daher die Akteure, Arenen, Mechanismen und Funktionen bei der sozialen Zuschreibung von Dummheit genauer beleuchtet werden.

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00:47:31

Anna Ahlers: China als neue Wissenschaftsmacht -...

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2025/02/05

Zu den interessantesten Entwicklungen im gegenwärtigen globalen Wissenschaftsystem gehört der rasante Aufstieg der Volksrepublik China. Als kollektiver Akteur hat es das Land innerhalb von drei Jahrzehnten geschafft, in allen gängigen wissenschaftlichen Leistungs- und Reputations-Rankings Spitzenplätze einzunehmen. Internationale Reaktionen auf diese Entwicklung sind geprägt von Faszination und - zunehmend - Sorge und Ablehnung. Nicht zuletzt fordert das autoritäre Wissenschaftsmodel der VR China

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00:45:02

Olof Hallonsten: Stop evaluating science – a...

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2025/01/22

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 well-being of current societies compared to previous times, a fundamental distrust characterizes its current status in society. According to prevalent discourse, science is insufficiently productive and in need of stricter governance and bureaucratic management, with performance evaluation by the means of quantitative metrics as a key tool to

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00:47:34

Dimity Stephen & Meta Cramer: Predatory publishing...

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2025/01/15

The recent shift in evaluation systems to more diverse quality criteria has increased the visibility of lower quality research, incurring a moral panic about the effects of predatory publishing practices (PPP) on the science system. However, this concern currently lacks empirical substantiation and ignores the complex geopolitical relations, researchers’ motivations, and centre-periphery narrative inherent in the predatory publishing debate. Thus, we propose a mixed-methods approach to answering

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00:37:10

Marta Wróblewska: From centre to (semi)periphery:...

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2025/01/08

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 Sameval). Poland and Norway have used an ex-post, expert-review system modeled on the British REF. There are several analogies between the studied impact evaluation systems, including similar definitions of impact, the use of case studies as the basis for evaluation, the structuring of the impact template and English as the language of evaluation

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00:37:34

Georgia Samaras: What’s it got to do with the brain?...

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2024/12/18

The talk explores the epistemic dynamics catalysed by researchers advocating for the clinical relevance of environmental epigenetics in psychiatry. I do so based on an in-depth literature analysis of peer-reviewed research articles and interviews with researchers who conduct epigenetic research in psychiatry. In demonstrating how relevance builds a crucial yet ambivalent bridge between basic research and clinical application, I explore tensions arising in relation to the acceptable level of

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00:47:15

Nicole Nelson: Reproducibility reforms in American...

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2024/12/11

Recent scholarship has described the “reproducibility crisis” and its associated reform movement as a social movement or a scientific-intellectual movement. This talk will argue for an alternative framing of these events which de-emphasizes high-status intellectual actors and their agendas for change, and emphasizes instead structural aspects and how they shape which reforms come to be seen as possible and desirable.Taking this alternative lens, we could see the reproducibility movement not as a

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