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Scientific Networks and Invisible Colleges

2017· other· en· W4253423725 on OpenAlexaff
J. I. Bakker

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology · 2017
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicContemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEpistemologyHermeneuticsSociologySemioticsComprehensionIBMPhilosophyLinguistics

Abstract

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Abstract The sociological study of science by early pioneers like De Solla Price and Merton has given way to science and technology in society (STS). Latour and Woolgar have studied the social construction of empirical findings in lab work. Sociological studies of Nobel Prize‐winners in science indicate that those who study with Nobel Prize‐winners are themselves the most likely recipients of the Nobel Prize, presumably because they have firsthand information about the cutting‐edge topics and techniques. In hermeneutics the idea of a “hermeneutic circle” or “spiral” in science is associated with “interaction between agents” and close ties between theorists and empirical researchers. In semiotics the notion of an interpretive community or network has been postulated as an aspect of C.S. Peirce's more abstract notion of a recursive “interpretant.” Collins has stressed the general importance of networks. His theory holds that there is a “law of small numbers” and that the half a dozen or so major “philosophers” in any particular time and place are very likely to know one another. Each thinker searches for a niche. Full comprehension of the theory requires an understanding of the network.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.013
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesBibliometrics
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.996
Threshold uncertainty score0.093

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.013
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0040.003
Science and technology studies0.0050.016
Scholarly communication0.0100.008
Open science0.0010.011
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0280.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.320
Teacher spread0.287 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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