Dr. Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner

Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner is a senior researcher and director of research and education at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University. He is a coordinator of the Evaluation & Culture focal area.

Wolfgang’s work focuses on scholarly communication and how its various formats and practices shape the knowledge created by academic researchers across different fields. This includes attending to the constitutive effects of research evaluation, changing forms of academic self-representation, political economies of academic work, as well as attempts to innovate scholarly publishing.

Wolfgang is also a research fellow at the Research on Research Institute (RoRI), where he co-leads RoRI’s work program on the use of narrative CVs in peer review. Before joining CWTS, Wolfgang was a postdoctoral researcher at the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS) at the Technical University of Munich. He obtained his PhD degree with honors in 2015 at Leiden University.

Wolfgang is an editorial board member of the journal Science as Culture.

For more information about his work, please check Wolfgang’s personal website.
 

Publications

Journal publications (15)

• Kaltenbrunner, W., Birch, K., & Amuchastegui, M. (2021). Editorial work and the peer review economy of STS journals. Science Technology & Human Values. (paper)
• Labib, K., Evans, N., Roje, R., Kavouras, P., Reyes Elizondo, A.E., Kaltenbrunner, W., Buljan, I., Ravn, T., Widdershoven, G., Bouter, L.M., Charitidis, C.A., Sørensen, M.P., & Tijdink, J.K. (2021). Education and training policies for research integrity: insights from a focus group study, : scab077. Science and Public Policy. (paper)
• Strinzel, M., Brown, J., Kaltenbrunner, W., De Rijcke, S., & Hill, M. (2021). Ten ways to improve academic CVs for fairer research assessment, 8. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 251. (paper)
• Dix, G., Kaltenbrunner, W., Tijdink, J.K., Valkenburg, G., & De Rijcke, S. (2020). Algorithmic allocation: untangling rival conceptions of fairness in research management. Politics and Governance, 8(2), 15-25. (paper)
• Mejlgaard, N., Bouter, L.M., Gaskell, G., Kavouras, P., Allum, N., Bendtsen, A.K., Charitidis, C.A., Claesen, N., Dierickx, K., Domaradzka, A., Reyes Elizondo, A.E., Foeger, N., Hiney, M., Kaltenbrunner, W., Labib, K., Marušic, A., Sørensen, M.P., Ravn, T., Šcepanovic, R., Tijdink, J.K., & Veltri, G.A. (2020). Research integrity: nine ways to move from talk to walk. Nature, 586, 358-360. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02847-8 (paper)
• Kaltenbrunner, W., & De Rijcke, S. (2019). Filling in the gaps: The interpretation of curricula vitae in peer review. Social Studies of Science, 49(6). (paper)
• Kaltenbrunner, W. (2018). Situated Knowledge Production, International Impact: Changing Publishing Practices in a German Engineering Department. Minerva, 56(3), 283-303. (paper)
• Kaltenbrunner, W. (2017). Digital Infrastructure for the Humanities in Europe and the US: Governing Scholarship through Coordinated Tool Development. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 26(3), 275-308. doi:10.1007/s10606-017-9272-2 (paper)
• Kaltenbrunner, W., & De Rijcke, S. (2017). Quantifying ‘Output’ for Evaluation: Administrative Knowledge Politics and Changing Epistemic Cultures in Dutch Law Faculties. Science and Public Policy, 44(2), 284-293. (paper)
• Kaltenbrunner, W. (2015). Collaboration, Reward and the Digital Humanities: Reply to Nyhan. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 4(7), 23-26. (paper)
• Kaltenbrunner, W. (2015). Infrastructural inversion as a generative resource in digital scholarship. Science as Culture, 24(1), 1-23. (paper)
• Kaltenbrunner, W. (2015). Scholarly labour and digital collaboration in literary studies. Social Epistemology, 29(2), 207-233. (paper)
• Kaltenbrunner, W. (2014). Decomposition as practice and process: Creating boundary objects in computational humanities. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 39(2), 143-161. doi:10.1179/0308018814Z.00000000082 (paper)
• Kaltenbrunner, W. (2010). Literary positivism? Scientific theories and methods in the work of Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869) and Wilhelm Scherer (1841-1886). Studium, 3(2), 74-90. (paper)
• Kaltenbrunner, W., & Wouters, P. (2010). E-research and methodological innovation in Dutch literary studies. First Monday, 15(9). (paper)

Conference publications (1)

• De Rijcke, S., Holtrop, T.J., Kaltenbrunner, W., Zuijderwijk, J., Beaulieu, A., Franssen, T., Van Leeuwen, T.N., Mongeon, P., Tatum, C.C., Valkenburg, G., & Wouters, P. (2018). Evaluative Inquiry: Engaging research evaluation analytically and strategically. Vienna: EU Council Conference on Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities for a European Research Agenda – Valuation of SSH in mission-oriented research. In . doi:10.22163/fteval.2019.386 (paper)

Book chapters (1)

• Kaltenbrunner, W., De Rijcke, S., Müller, R., & Burner-Fritsch, I. (2021). On the chronopolitics of academic CVs in peer review. Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited. In F. Vostal (Ed.), Inquiring into Academic Timescapes (pp. 247-264). doi:10.1108/978-1-78973-911-420211021 (paper)