The value of science
Changing Conceptions of Scientific Productivity, 1869 to Circa 1970
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3087404 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benoit Godin (0000-0002-2474-6494, INRS Urbanisation, Culture et Société, 385 rue Sherbrooke Est, Montréal, Québec H2X 1E3 (Canada), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 547-586 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science Information (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0539-0184 • E-ISSN: 1461-7412 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0539018409344475 |
| OpenAlex | W2123128778 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 126 |
Productivity is now a buzzword in science studies. Whether you consult the literature on research management, the economic literature on technology and innovation, the literature on bibliometrics or the official literature on science policy and its conceptual frameworks, what you find is analyses on productivity, often accompanied by a plea, and recipes, for increased productivity. This article documents how the concept of productivity got into the analysis of science, through the statistics on which the concept rested, and its transformation over one hundred years. It argues that, through history, the concept as applied to science has carried four meanings: productivity as reproduction, productivity as output, productivity as efficiency and productivity as outcome
Bibliometrics · Classical economics · Economic growth · Economics · Library science · Plea · Political science · Positive economics · Productivity · Scientometrics · Social science · Sociology · Statistics · Computer Science · Economic Growth and Productivity · Law · Mathematics · Research, Science, and Academia · scientometrics and bibliometrics research
Productive interactions in a port city
Through the looking-glass
It takes two to tango
Growth rates of modern science
SDG4 academic research productivity in the EU27
Researchers publishing monographs are more productive and more local-oriented
The emergence of university rankings
Mapping SME productivity research
Bibliometrics and the study of religion\s1
The value of science
Identifying top researchers in highly metricized academia
Demography and Degeneration
The economics of technological change
Social Stratification in Science
Hereditary genius
Inquiries into human faculty and its development.
Faces of Degeneration
R&D and Productivity
English men of science
Little Science, Big Science
Creativity and Culture
Citation Indexes for Science
The Explanation of Productivity Change
Die soziale Funktion der Wissenschaft
The Visible Hand
Business cycles
The Age at Which Scientists Do Their Best Work
Fluctuations in the Rate of Industrial Invention
The Course of Arabian Intellectual Development, 700-1300 A.D. A Study in Method
Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function
The Level of Inventive Activity
Inventions and Production
Scientific Creativity
Trust in Numbers
Some Academic Influences Upon Publication Productivity
Ideas of heredity, reproduction and eugenics in Britain, 1800–1875
From Eugenics to Scientometrics
The Culture of the Nations
The Research and Development Effort in Western Europe, North America and the Soviet Union
Economic Progress and Economic Change
The Numbers Makers
Scientific Productivity in Organizational Settings
Research Costs and Social Returns
Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs? America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981
Technology and the economy
Expenditures and Revenues of the Federal Government
Management Controls in Industrial Research Organizations
Trends in Output and Employment
Statistical Bibliography in Relation to the Growth of Modern Civilization
The Sources of Economic Growth in the United States and the Alternatives Before Us
Prices in Recession and Recovery
Management Accounting in an Early Multidivisional Organization
Widening Horizons in Creativity
Are Inventions Inevitable? A Note on Social Evolution
Work and Its Discontents
Inventiveness by Nation
A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth
Creativity
Technology and Society
Scientific Productivity and Academic Organization in Nineteenth Century Medicine
Bio-Social Characteristics of American Inventors
Departmental Effects on Scientific Productivity
Wave-Like Fluctuations of Creative Productivity in the Development of West-European Physics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Organizational Context and Scientific Productivity
Productivity and Academic Position in the Scientific Career
An Attempt to Measure the Rise of American Inventing and the Decline of Patenting
Productivity Differences Among Scientists
Cumulative Advantage and Inequality in Science
Scientists at Major and Minor Universities
Psychological progress
Scientific Output and Recognition
Scientific Productivity and the Reward Structure of Science
Further statistics of the American Psychological Association
The scientific interests and scientific publications of the members of the American Psychological Association, Inc
The American Psychological Association
Publications, politics and economics
An Economist Takes Issue
"A "Wastage of Men
The value of science
Age and Scientific Performance
Is the Rate of Invention Declining
The Productivity of Social Scientists
The Patenting Performance of 1,000 Inventors During Ten Years
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,65 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |