Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner
Biographic Data
| ID | 4208933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wolfgang |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaltenbrunner |
| SIGNATURE | KALTENBRUNNER W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4311-8212 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Between Gift-Giving and Accumulation: Peer Review Economies in Psychology
Peer review is crucial for academic communities to ensure high-quality research, but yields relatively limited formal rewards for the individuals who perform it. Drawing on 39 semi-structured interviews, I study how reviewers for three publishing outlets in psychology experience the tension between community responsibility and various priorities of a more individual kind. Peer review functions as a gift economy, in which authors are expected to r…
Science and research landscapes across D-8 organization member countries from a historical perspective: The policy context and collective agendas
Intergovernmental Economic Organizations usually leverage the scientific capacity of their member countries to ensure economic prosperity through consensual science policies. The D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation is an intergovernmental economic forum constituting eight developing Muslim-majority countries with a host of recent initiatives toward encouraging interstate scientific and technological collaborations. This study presents an ov…
The Intersections between Sociology and STS: A Big Data Approach
This paper charts the changing intersections between sociology and science and technology studies (STS) using computational textual analysis. We characterize this 'quali-quantitative' approach as a Big Data method, as this calls attention to the commixture of textual and numeric data that characterizes Big Data. The term Big Data, too, calls attention to the increasing privatization of both data and data analytics tools. The data mining was done …
Changing publication practices and the typification of the journal article in science and technology studies
In this article, we study the development of the STS journal article format since the 1980s. Our analysis is based on quantitative data that suggest that the diversity of various journal publication types has diminished over the past four decades, while the format of research articles has become increasingly typified. We contextualize these historical shifts in qualitative terms, drawing on a set of 76 interviews with STS scholars and other stake…
Ten ways to improve academic CVs for fairer research assessment
Academic CVs are ubiquitous and play an integral role in the assessment of researchers. They define and portray what activities and achievements are considered important in the scientific system. Developing their content and structure beyond the traditional, publication-focused CV has the potential to make research careers more diverse and their assessment fairer and more transparent. This comment presents ten ways to further develop the content …
Managing budgetary uncertainty, interpreting policy. How researchers integrate “grand challenges” funding programs into their research agendas
A recent trend in European science policy is the attempt to influence academic research agendas through mission-oriented funding programs. Under the label of 'grand challenges', these aim to stimulate knowledge and technology deemed crucial to society, but unlikely to develop from corporate R&D and traditionally funded research. This paper takes a detailed look at the mechanisms through which academics in two German university departments integra…
Algorithmic Allocation: Untangling Rival Considerations of Fairness in Research Management
Marketization and quantification have become ingrained in academia over the past few decades. The trust in numbers and incentives has led to a proliferation of devices that individualize, induce, benchmark, and rank academic performance. As an instantiation of that trend, this article focuses on the establishment and contestation of ‘algorithmic allocation’ at a Dutch university medical centre. Algorithmic allocation is a form of data-driven auto…
Filling in the gaps: The interpretation of curricula vitae in peer review
In this article, we study the use of curricula vitae (CV) for competitive funding decisions in science. The typically sober administrative style of academic résumés evokes the impression of straightforwardly conveyed, objective evidence on which to base comparisons of past achievements and future potentials. We instead conceptualize the evaluation of biographical evidence as a generative interplay between an historically grown, administrative inf…
Re-disciplining Academic Careers? Interdisciplinary Practice and Career Development in a Swedish Environmental Sciences Research Center
Interdisciplinarity is often framed as crucial for addressing the complex problems of contemporary society and for achieving new levels of innovation. But while science policy and institutions have provided a variety of incentives for stimulating interdisciplinary work throughout Europe, there is also growing evidence that some aspects of the academic system do not necessarily reward interdisciplinary work. In this study, we explore how mid-caree…
Digital Infrastructure for the Humanities in Europe and the US: Governing Scholarship through Coordinated Tool Development
Situated Knowledge Production, International Impact: Changing Publishing Practices in a German Engineering Department
Infrastructural Inversion as a Generative Resource in Digital Scholarship
Digital humanities scholarship has regularly challenged characteristic organizational features of academic life in the humanities. For example, it is typically practiced in larger collaborative projects that produce output very different from the traditional scholarly monograph. Digital humanists often present their work in strikingly reflexive accounts that are reminiscent of what science and technology studies scholars have called infrastructur…
Decomposition as Practice and Process: Creating Boundary Objects in Computational Humanities
The emergent reflexive process, by which researchers in a computational humanities project work towards a viable organizational modality for interdisciplinary collaboration, is analyzed. Using the metaphor of decomposition, successful collaboration between computer scientists and humanities scholars can be seen to require a reflexive scrutiny — a decomposition — of the disciplinary research processes that are involved, thus allowing crucial diffe…
E-research and methodological innovation in Dutch literary studies
This paper studies the digitization of a well-established print bibliography for Dutch literary studies and its implications for the discipline. On the basis of qualitative interviews with users, we first compare three particular research practices in the field, and how they are affected by the digitization. Secondly we analyze the controversy that accompanied the digitization. We touch upon three prominent aspects of scholarly identity that recu…
Changing publication practices and the typification of the journal article in science and technology studies
In this article, we study the development of the STS journal article format since the 1980s. Our analysis is based on quantitative data that suggest that the diversity of various journal publication types has diminished over the past four decades, while the format of research articles has become increasingly typified. We contextualize these historical shifts in qualitative terms, drawing on a set of 76 interviews with STS scholars and other stake…
Re-disciplining Academic Careers? Interdisciplinary Practice and Career Development in a Swedish Environmental Sciences Research Center
Interdisciplinarity is often framed as crucial for addressing the complex problems of contemporary society and for achieving new levels of innovation. But while science policy and institutions have provided a variety of incentives for stimulating interdisciplinary work throughout Europe, there is also growing evidence that some aspects of the academic system do not necessarily reward interdisciplinary work. In this study, we explore how mid-caree…
Infrastructural Inversion as a Generative Resource in Digital Scholarship
Digital humanities scholarship has regularly challenged characteristic organizational features of academic life in the humanities. For example, it is typically practiced in larger collaborative projects that produce output very different from the traditional scholarly monograph. Digital humanists often present their work in strikingly reflexive accounts that are reminiscent of what science and technology studies scholars have called infrastructur…
Filling in the gaps: The interpretation of curricula vitae in peer review
In this article, we study the use of curricula vitae (CV) for competitive funding decisions in science. The typically sober administrative style of academic résumés evokes the impression of straightforwardly conveyed, objective evidence on which to base comparisons of past achievements and future potentials. We instead conceptualize the evaluation of biographical evidence as a generative interplay between an historically grown, administrative inf…
Situated Knowledge Production, International Impact: Changing Publishing Practices in a German Engineering Department
Decomposition as Practice and Process: Creating Boundary Objects in Computational Humanities
The emergent reflexive process, by which researchers in a computational humanities project work towards a viable organizational modality for interdisciplinary collaboration, is analyzed. Using the metaphor of decomposition, successful collaboration between computer scientists and humanities scholars can be seen to require a reflexive scrutiny — a decomposition — of the disciplinary research processes that are involved, thus allowing crucial diffe…
E-research and methodological innovation in Dutch literary studies
This paper studies the digitization of a well-established print bibliography for Dutch literary studies and its implications for the discipline. On the basis of qualitative interviews with users, we first compare three particular research practices in the field, and how they are affected by the digitization. Secondly we analyze the controversy that accompanied the digitization. We touch upon three prominent aspects of scholarly identity that recu…
Infrastructural Inversion as a Generative Resource in Digital Scholarship
Digital humanities scholarship has regularly challenged characteristic organizational features of academic life in the humanities. For example, it is typically practiced in larger collaborative projects that produce output very different from the traditional scholarly monograph. Digital humanists often present their work in strikingly reflexive accounts that are reminiscent of what science and technology studies scholars have called infrastructur…
Decomposition as Practice and Process: Creating Boundary Objects in Computational Humanities
The emergent reflexive process, by which researchers in a computational humanities project work towards a viable organizational modality for interdisciplinary collaboration, is analyzed. Using the metaphor of decomposition, successful collaboration between computer scientists and humanities scholars can be seen to require a reflexive scrutiny — a decomposition — of the disciplinary research processes that are involved, thus allowing crucial diffe…
Digital Infrastructure for the Humanities in Europe and the US: Governing Scholarship through Coordinated Tool Development
Situated Knowledge Production, International Impact: Changing Publishing Practices in a German Engineering Department
Filling in the gaps: The interpretation of curricula vitae in peer review
In this article, we study the use of curricula vitae (CV) for competitive funding decisions in science. The typically sober administrative style of academic résumés evokes the impression of straightforwardly conveyed, objective evidence on which to base comparisons of past achievements and future potentials. We instead conceptualize the evaluation of biographical evidence as a generative interplay between an historically grown, administrative inf…
Re-disciplining Academic Careers? Interdisciplinary Practice and Career Development in a Swedish Environmental Sciences Research Center
Interdisciplinarity is often framed as crucial for addressing the complex problems of contemporary society and for achieving new levels of innovation. But while science policy and institutions have provided a variety of incentives for stimulating interdisciplinary work throughout Europe, there is also growing evidence that some aspects of the academic system do not necessarily reward interdisciplinary work. In this study, we explore how mid-caree…
Managing budgetary uncertainty, interpreting policy. How researchers integrate “grand challenges” funding programs into their research agendas
A recent trend in European science policy is the attempt to influence academic research agendas through mission-oriented funding programs. Under the label of 'grand challenges', these aim to stimulate knowledge and technology deemed crucial to society, but unlikely to develop from corporate R&D and traditionally funded research. This paper takes a detailed look at the mechanisms through which academics in two German university departments integra…
Algorithmic Allocation: Untangling Rival Considerations of Fairness in Research Management
Marketization and quantification have become ingrained in academia over the past few decades. The trust in numbers and incentives has led to a proliferation of devices that individualize, induce, benchmark, and rank academic performance. As an instantiation of that trend, this article focuses on the establishment and contestation of ‘algorithmic allocation’ at a Dutch university medical centre. Algorithmic allocation is a form of data-driven auto…
Ten ways to improve academic CVs for fairer research assessment
Academic CVs are ubiquitous and play an integral role in the assessment of researchers. They define and portray what activities and achievements are considered important in the scientific system. Developing their content and structure beyond the traditional, publication-focused CV has the potential to make research careers more diverse and their assessment fairer and more transparent. This comment presents ten ways to further develop the content …
Changing publication practices and the typification of the journal article in science and technology studies
In this article, we study the development of the STS journal article format since the 1980s. Our analysis is based on quantitative data that suggest that the diversity of various journal publication types has diminished over the past four decades, while the format of research articles has become increasingly typified. We contextualize these historical shifts in qualitative terms, drawing on a set of 76 interviews with STS scholars and other stake…
Science and research landscapes across D-8 organization member countries from a historical perspective: The policy context and collective agendas
Intergovernmental Economic Organizations usually leverage the scientific capacity of their member countries to ensure economic prosperity through consensual science policies. The D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation is an intergovernmental economic forum constituting eight developing Muslim-majority countries with a host of recent initiatives toward encouraging interstate scientific and technological collaborations. This study presents an ov…
The Intersections between Sociology and STS: A Big Data Approach
This paper charts the changing intersections between sociology and science and technology studies (STS) using computational textual analysis. We characterize this 'quali-quantitative' approach as a Big Data method, as this calls attention to the commixture of textual and numeric data that characterizes Big Data. The term Big Data, too, calls attention to the increasing privatization of both data and data analytics tools. The data mining was done …
Between Gift-Giving and Accumulation: Peer Review Economies in Psychology
Peer review is crucial for academic communities to ensure high-quality research, but yields relatively limited formal rewards for the individuals who perform it. Drawing on 39 semi-structured interviews, I study how reviewers for three publishing outlets in psychology experience the tension between community responsibility and various priorities of a more individual kind. Peer review functions as a gift economy, in which authors are expected to r…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Social science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Engineering ethics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works)