Video recording of the Webinar (Session 2)
The new journal Quantitative Science Studies (QSS) has recently released a new special issue (see below) exploring the relation of QSS with neighboring fields, with contributions by renowned scholars working at the boundaries of QSS. This webinar will explore some of the issues raised in the special issue and will look ahead to the future of the field.
We also thought that this would be an ideal occasion to offer a tribute to Loet Leydesdorff for his contributions to various fields of science studies over almost 50 years, from his initial work on Dutch science shops in the 1970s to the Triple Helix dynamics, across a myriad of strangely beautiful scientometric blossoms. We warmly invite friends of STS, scientometrics and innovation studies and beyond to participate in this celebration!
15:00-16:30 Session 1. Special Issue on ‘Bridging the divide between qualitative and quantitative science studies’
Chair
Ismael Rafols (Leiden University)
Welcome
by Ludo Waltman (editor of QSS, Leiden University)
Introduction to the special issue
Staša Milojević (Indiana University)
Loet Leysdesdorff (University of Amsterdam)
Panel debate: “Which directions might Quantitative Science Studies take in the future?”
Geoffrey C. Bowker (University of California, Irving)
James Evans (University of Chicago)
Koen Frenken (Utrecht University)
17:00-18:00 Session 2. Tribute to Loet Leydesdorff
Chair
Sally Wyatt (Maastricht University)
Speakers
Cassidy R. Sugimoto (President of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, ISSI)
Diana Lucio Arias (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá)
Lutz Bornmann (Max Planck Institute, Munich)
Caroline Wagner (Ohio State University)
Paul Wouters (Leiden University)
Table of contents of the Special Issue on ‘Bridging the divide between qualitative and quantitative science studies’
Loet Leydesdorff, Ismael Rafols, & Staša Milojević, (Eds.), “Bridging the divide between qualitative and quantitative science studies.”
Describing and questioning a divide
- Geoffrey C. Bowker, “Numbers and no numbers in science studies.”
- Donghyun Kang & James Evans, “Against method: Exploding the boundary between qualitative and quantitative studies of science.”
- Harriet Zuckerman, “Is ‘the time ripe’ for quantitative research on misconduct in science?”
Using numbers in decision making
- Yong Zhao, Jian Du, & Yishan Wu, “Impact of J.D. Bernal’s thoughts in the science of science upon China: Implications for today’s quantitative studies of science.”
- Diana Hicks & Kimberly Isett, “Powerful numbers: Exemplary quantitative studies of science that had policy impact.”
- Thomas Heinze & Arlette Jappe, “Quantitative science studies should be framed with middle-range theories and concepts from the social sciences.”
Perspectives and bridges
- Christine L. Borgman, “Whose text, whose mining, and to whose benefit.”
- Mary Frank Fox, “Gender, science, and academic rank: Key issues and approaches.”
- Koen Frenken, “Geography of scientific knowledge: A proximity approach.”
Future directions
- Alberto Cambrosio, Jean-Philippe Cointet, & Alexandre H. Abdo, “Beyond networks: Aligning qualitative and computational science studies.”
- Henry Small, “Past as prologue: Approaches to the study of confirmation in science.”
- Noortje Marres & Sarah de Rijcke, “From indicators to indicating interdisciplinarity: A participatory mapping methodology for research communities in-the-making.”
We are grateful to the Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology for financial support to the special issue.