Ben R Martin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5735372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben R Martin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben R |
| FAMILY NAME | Martin |
| SIGNATURE | MARTIN B R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5186-0903 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Collective climate geoengineering futures through a global participatory technology foresight exercise
Climate change, like other Grand Challenges, raises fundamental issues with how to ensure the public feel fully involved in developing necessary interventions. Technology foresight potentially offers a means to achieve this. This study presents the results of a technology foresight exercise that explores potential climate futures involving climate interventions such as carbon removal and solar geoengineering. We utilize an innovative approach tha…
What’s happening to our universities
In recent decades, many universities have been moving in the direction of a more hierarchical and centralised structure, with top-down planning and reduced local autonomy for departments. Yet, the management literature over this period has stressed the numerous benefits of flatter organisational structures, decentralisation and local autonomy for sections or departments. What might explain this paradox? And why have academics remained strangely q…
What is an emerging technology?
Innovation Studies: Evolution and Future Challenges
Innovation is increasingly recognized as a vitally important social and economic phenomenon worthy of serious research study. Firms are concerned about their innovation ability, particularly relative to their competitors. Politicians care about innovation, too, because of its presumed social and economic impact. However, to recognize that innovation is desirable is not sufficient. What is required is systematic and reliable knowledge about how be…
The Research Excellence Framework and the 'impact agenda': Are we creating a Frankenstein monster?
In pursuit of public accountability, the mechanisms for assessing research performance have become more complicated and burdensome. In the United Kingdom, the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) evolved from an initially simple framework to something much more complex and onerous. As the RAE now gives way to the Research Excellence Framework (REF), ‘impact assessment’ is being added to the process. Impact comes in numerous forms, however, so its a…
What can bibliometrics tell us about changes in the mode of knowledge production
One of the most influential contributions to the fields of science policy research and science and technology studies during the last 20 years was The New Production of Knowledge by Gibbons et al. (Gibbons, M., Limoges, C., Nowotny, H., Schwartzman, S., Scott, P. and Trow, M. (1994) The New Production of Knowledge: The Dynamics of Science and Research in Contemporary Societies, Sage, London). The authors argued that over recent decades a differen…
University Research Evaluation and Funding: An International Comparison
The economic benefits of publicly funded basic research: A critical review
What is research collaboration?
Negotiating expert status: Who gets taken seriously
A lay person may listen puzzled as a specialist in a public hearing discusses a technical point. Similarly, a challenging question from a technically knowledgeable member of the audience may be difficult to fathom. Failure to understand what a speaker discusses-despite one's interest in a topic-can cause frustration, anger and despair. It makes a listener wonder why they are there trying to engage, and why technical specialists persist in such a …
Foresight in science and technology
Emerging generic technologies seem set to make a revolutionary impact on the economy and society. However, success in developing such technologies depends upon advances in science. Confronted with increasing global economic competition, policy-makers and scientists are grappling with the problem of how to select the most promising research areas and emerging technologies on which to target resources and, hence, derive the greatest benefits. This …
Investing in the Future: An International Comparison of Government Funding of Academic and Related Research
Journal Article Investing in the Future: An International Comparison of Government Funding of Academic and Related Research Get access Investing in the Future: An International Comparison of Government Funding of Academic and Related Research. By JOHN IRVINE, BEN R. MARTIN and PHOEBE A. ISARD. (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1990. Pp. xvi + 277. à à à à £35.00 hardback. ISBN 1 85278 387 7.) Michael Posner Michael Posner European Science Foundation Sear…
The Assessment of Scientific Research A Case-Study of Cern
The review aims to demonstrate that formal methods of evaluating research performance can play a valuable role in overcoming some of the problems with decision-making in basic science based on peer review. An approach which combines a number of research output indicators, including bibliometric measures derived from publication and citation analysis, is first outlined and then applied in a case study of the European Laboratory for Particle Physic…
The Assessment of Scientific Research A Case-Study of Cern
Basic Research in the East and West: A Comparison of the Scientific Performance of High-Energy Physics Accelerators
This paper presents the results of a study comparing the past scientific performance of high-energy physics accelerators in the Eastern bloc with that of their main Western counterparts. Output-evaluation indicators are used. After carefully examining the extent to which the output indicators used may be biased against science in the Eastern bloc, various conclusions are drawn about the relative contributions to science made by these accelerators…
Evaluating the Evaluators: A Reply to Our Critics
Assessing Basic Research: The Case of the Isaac Newton Telescope
In a parallel paper, we have outlined a methodology for assessing the comparative scientific performance of large basic research facilities (and their associated user groups) working in the same specialty, and applied this method of `converging partial indicators' to an evaluation of the contributions to science made by a number of radio telescopes. In this paper, we employ this methodology to evaluate the scientific performance of various optica…
The Isaac Newton Telescope
Women in science—The astronomical brain drain
Internal criteria for scientific choice: An evaluation of research in high-energy physics using electron accelerators
Reply to Edge and Mulkay
Radio Astronomy Revisited: A Reassessment of the Role of Competition and Conflict in the Development of Radio Astronomy
University Research Evaluation and Funding: An International Comparison
Basic Research in the East and West: A Comparison of the Scientific Performance of High-Energy Physics Accelerators
This paper presents the results of a study comparing the past scientific performance of high-energy physics accelerators in the Eastern bloc with that of their main Western counterparts. Output-evaluation indicators are used. After carefully examining the extent to which the output indicators used may be biased against science in the Eastern bloc, various conclusions are drawn about the relative contributions to science made by these accelerators…
Evaluating the Evaluators: A Reply to Our Critics
Women in science—The astronomical brain drain
Investing in the Future: An International Comparison of Government Funding of Academic and Related Research
Journal Article Investing in the Future: An International Comparison of Government Funding of Academic and Related Research Get access Investing in the Future: An International Comparison of Government Funding of Academic and Related Research. By JOHN IRVINE, BEN R. MARTIN and PHOEBE A. ISARD. (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1990. Pp. xvi + 277. à à à à £35.00 hardback. ISBN 1 85278 387 7.) Michael Posner Michael Posner European Science Foundation Sear…
Assessing Basic Research: The Case of the Isaac Newton Telescope
In a parallel paper, we have outlined a methodology for assessing the comparative scientific performance of large basic research facilities (and their associated user groups) working in the same specialty, and applied this method of `converging partial indicators' to an evaluation of the contributions to science made by a number of radio telescopes. In this paper, we employ this methodology to evaluate the scientific performance of various optica…
Radio Astronomy Revisited: A Reassessment of the Role of Competition and Conflict in the Development of Radio Astronomy
Radio Astronomy Revisited: A Reassessment of the Role of Competition and Conflict in the Development of Radio Astronomy
Reply to Edge and Mulkay
Internal criteria for scientific choice: An evaluation of research in high-energy physics using electron accelerators
Women in science—The astronomical brain drain
Assessing Basic Research: The Case of the Isaac Newton Telescope
In a parallel paper, we have outlined a methodology for assessing the comparative scientific performance of large basic research facilities (and their associated user groups) working in the same specialty, and applied this method of `converging partial indicators' to an evaluation of the contributions to science made by a number of radio telescopes. In this paper, we employ this methodology to evaluate the scientific performance of various optica…
The Isaac Newton Telescope
Basic Research in the East and West: A Comparison of the Scientific Performance of High-Energy Physics Accelerators
This paper presents the results of a study comparing the past scientific performance of high-energy physics accelerators in the Eastern bloc with that of their main Western counterparts. Output-evaluation indicators are used. After carefully examining the extent to which the output indicators used may be biased against science in the Eastern bloc, various conclusions are drawn about the relative contributions to science made by these accelerators…
Evaluating the Evaluators: A Reply to Our Critics
The Assessment of Scientific Research A Case-Study of Cern
The review aims to demonstrate that formal methods of evaluating research performance can play a valuable role in overcoming some of the problems with decision-making in basic science based on peer review. An approach which combines a number of research output indicators, including bibliometric measures derived from publication and citation analysis, is first outlined and then applied in a case study of the European Laboratory for Particle Physic…
The Assessment of Scientific Research A Case-Study of Cern
Investing in the Future: An International Comparison of Government Funding of Academic and Related Research
Journal Article Investing in the Future: An International Comparison of Government Funding of Academic and Related Research Get access Investing in the Future: An International Comparison of Government Funding of Academic and Related Research. By JOHN IRVINE, BEN R. MARTIN and PHOEBE A. ISARD. (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1990. Pp. xvi + 277. à à à à £35.00 hardback. ISBN 1 85278 387 7.) Michael Posner Michael Posner European Science Foundation Sear…
Foresight in science and technology
Emerging generic technologies seem set to make a revolutionary impact on the economy and society. However, success in developing such technologies depends upon advances in science. Confronted with increasing global economic competition, policy-makers and scientists are grappling with the problem of how to select the most promising research areas and emerging technologies on which to target resources and, hence, derive the greatest benefits. This …
What is research collaboration?
Negotiating expert status: Who gets taken seriously
A lay person may listen puzzled as a specialist in a public hearing discusses a technical point. Similarly, a challenging question from a technically knowledgeable member of the audience may be difficult to fathom. Failure to understand what a speaker discusses-despite one's interest in a topic-can cause frustration, anger and despair. It makes a listener wonder why they are there trying to engage, and why technical specialists persist in such a …
The economic benefits of publicly funded basic research: A critical review
University Research Evaluation and Funding: An International Comparison
The Research Excellence Framework and the 'impact agenda': Are we creating a Frankenstein monster?
In pursuit of public accountability, the mechanisms for assessing research performance have become more complicated and burdensome. In the United Kingdom, the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) evolved from an initially simple framework to something much more complex and onerous. As the RAE now gives way to the Research Excellence Framework (REF), ‘impact assessment’ is being added to the process. Impact comes in numerous forms, however, so its a…
What can bibliometrics tell us about changes in the mode of knowledge production
One of the most influential contributions to the fields of science policy research and science and technology studies during the last 20 years was The New Production of Knowledge by Gibbons et al. (Gibbons, M., Limoges, C., Nowotny, H., Schwartzman, S., Scott, P. and Trow, M. (1994) The New Production of Knowledge: The Dynamics of Science and Research in Contemporary Societies, Sage, London). The authors argued that over recent decades a differen…
Innovation Studies: Evolution and Future Challenges
Innovation is increasingly recognized as a vitally important social and economic phenomenon worthy of serious research study. Firms are concerned about their innovation ability, particularly relative to their competitors. Politicians care about innovation, too, because of its presumed social and economic impact. However, to recognize that innovation is desirable is not sufficient. What is required is systematic and reliable knowledge about how be…
What is an emerging technology?
What’s happening to our universities
In recent decades, many universities have been moving in the direction of a more hierarchical and centralised structure, with top-down planning and reduced local autonomy for departments. Yet, the management literature over this period has stressed the numerous benefits of flatter organisational structures, decentralisation and local autonomy for sections or departments. What might explain this paradox? And why have academics remained strangely q…
Collective climate geoengineering futures through a global participatory technology foresight exercise
Climate change, like other Grand Challenges, raises fundamental issues with how to ensure the public feel fully involved in developing necessary interventions. Technology foresight potentially offers a means to achieve this. This study presents the results of a technology foresight exercise that explores potential climate futures involving climate interventions such as carbon removal and solar geoengineering. We utilize an innovative approach tha…
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