Concepts of Originality in the Natural Science, Medical, and Engineering Disciplines
An Analysis of Research Proposals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5337626 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eva Barlösius (0000-0003-0254-854X, Leibniz Center for Science and Society, Hannover, Germany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 915-937 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0162243918808370 |
| OpenAlex | W2896144134 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 27 |
Science is fundamentally devoted to generating original knowledge, and therefore concepts of scientific originality are keys to understanding its very essence. Scientific originality has long been thought of as discovery, but new studies of the humanities and social sciences have shown that other, discipline-specific concepts of originality are used in these fields of study. Does this finding also hold for disciplines in the natural science, medicine, and engineering? Are concepts of originality scientifically grounded or do they instead reflect extrascientific modes of originality? These questions lie at the heart of research proposals responding to an initiative explicitly calling for original scientific projects. The proposals undergo a two-step analysis based on grounded theory[Per style, reference citation is not allowed in abstract section. Hence, we have deleted Charmaz, 2006. Please approve.]. First, three empirically identified modes of scientific originality are described: temporal, partially different, and revolutionary. The three modes of originality are consistent with extrascientific ones such as those in art and fashion. Second, six disciplines-two each in the natural science, medical, and engineering-are analyzed for ways the three modes of originality are used and for their associated disciplinary characteristics in order to identify discipline-specific concepts of originality
Discipline · Epistemology · Originality · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Design Education and Practice · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration · Philosophy
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What Types of Novelty Are Most Disruptive
Science and the social order
Creativity in Science
How Professors Think
The art of getting funded
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
The Practice of Conceptual History
The Essential Tension
The Rules of Art
The Temporalisation of Concepts
Essential Tensions
A Measure of Originality
Communicating and compromising on disciplinary expertise in the peer review of research proposals
Pasteur's Quadrant
The Republic of science
The Nature and Role of Originality in Scientific Progress
Priorities in Scientific Discovery
Social Knowledge in the Making
Fairness as Appropriateness
The Rhetorical Construction of Novelty
The Act of Collaborative Creation and the Art of Integrative Creativity
A Gricean Approach to Aesthetic Instrumentalism
What is Originality in the Humanities and the Social Sciences
Tradition and Innovation in Scientists' Research Strategies
The specificity of the scientific field and the social conditions of the progress of reason
Fashion
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |