Certified Amplification

An Emerging Scientific Norm and Ethos

Bibliographic Data

ID10707296
AuthorsCarole J Lee (0000-0002-5323-9205, University of Washington, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume89
Issue5
Pages1002-1012
Publication date2022-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophy of Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8248 • E-ISSN: 1539-767X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/psa.2022.37
OpenAlexW4281704383
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited10

Merton envisioned his norms of science at a time when peer-reviewed journals controlled scientific communication. Technologies for sharing and finding content have since divorced the certification and amplification of science, generating systemic vulnerabilities. Certified amplification —a new Mertonian-styled norm—enjoins their recoupling and introduces a taxonomy of strategies adopted by institutions to close the certification-amplification gap, including the proportioning of the one to the other. Examples illustrating each taxonomic type collectively paint a picture of an ethos employing a rich range of certification and amplification techniques and emerging in a decentralized fashion across heterogeneous objects, communication modalities, and institutions

Certification · Engineering ethics · Ethos · Modalities · Norm (philosophy) · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Law · Philosophy and History of Science · scientometrics and bibliometrics research

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