Scientific Communication and Cognitive Codification
Social Systems Theory and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2397774 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Leydesdorff (0000-0002-7835-3098, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 375-388 |
| Publication date | 2007-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1368431007080701 |
| OpenAlex | W2146980052 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 37 |
The intellectual organization of the sciences cannot be appreciated sufficiently unless the cognitive dimension is considered as an independent source of variance. Cognitive structures interact and co-construct the organization of scholars and discourses into research programs, specialties, and disciplines. In the sociology of scientific knowledge and the sociology of translation, these heterogeneous sources of variance have been homogenized a priori in the concepts of practices and actor-networks. Practices and actor-networks, however, can be explained in terms of the self-organization of the cognitive code in scientific communication. The code selects knowledge claims by organizing them operationally in the various discourses; the claims can thus be stabilized and potentially globalized. Both the selecting codes and the variation in the knowledge claims remain constructed, but the different sub-dynamics can be expected to operate asymmetrically and to update with other frequencies
Cognition · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of scientific knowledge · Computer Science · Innovation and Knowledge Management · Psychology · scientometrics and bibliometrics research · University-Industry-Government Innovation Models
Scientific Communication and Codification
A review of theory and practice in scientometrics
International science collaboration as a complex adaptive system in the work of Loet Leydesdorff
Flow of ideas in the study of communication channels and references in publications on nanotechnology applied to food and agriculture in Mexico
Towards a Cognitive Sociology for Our Time
Rollen und Institutionen als symbolische Ordnung von Netzwerken
Por dentro das Ciências Humanas
Content Analysis and the Measurement of Meaning
A Peircean approach to pictorial documents
Science overlay maps
The probable foundations of sustainabilism
Um Sacerdote Do Folclore
Theorizing social networks
Copo Meio Cheio Ou Copo Meio Vazio? Estágio Pós-Doutoral, Face Exposta, Revisão Crítica E Agenda De Pesquisa
What drives global science? The four competing narratives
Networks from communication
Latent structure analysis
The sociology of science
Scientific Discovery
The structure of scientific revolutions
An evolutionary theory of economic change
Knowledge and social imagery
The laws of the markets
The Intellectual and Social Organization Of the Sciences
Business cycles
Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft
Autopoiesis and Cognition
Filling the gap between discussions on science and scientists' everyday activities
Grandlagenprobleme der Theorie symbolisch generalisierter Kommunikationsmedien bei Niklas Luhmann
Scientific Discovery by Computer as Empirical Refutation of the Strong Programme
Towards an Analysis of Scientific Observation
Texts as Knowledge Claims
Bayesian personalism, the methodology of scientific research programmes, and Duhem's problem
A manifesto
On the Concept of Influence
Uncertainty and the communication of time
Social Structure in a Group of Scientists
From translations to problematic networks
The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy
The Mangle of Practice
Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation
Paradigms--Scientific and Social
Leviathan and the Air-Pump
The Non-linear Dynamics of Sociological Reflections
The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,07 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |