Publication Politics II

Abstract

This double panel brings together multidisciplinary approaches to investigating the relationships between publication practices and science in diverse national and transnational settings. It puts into conversation research that uses qualitative and quantitative methods and analyzes to investigate the development of the field of Innovation Systems studies, the trajectory of STS social science in Brazil, that articulation of Sustainable Development Goals in Brazilian publications, and the ways citizen science publications represent the motivation for "participation." The panel takes up the question of how scientific publications represent the status of statistical "significance in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, as well as critically investigates the role of peer review in STS journals themselves, and the status of the "non-human" in design journals, and even the role of google searchers and hence algorithms in generating results. In so doing, the panel turns a critical eye to both the study of publication in the sciences as well as within STS itself.

Individual Presentations

• Motivation for Participation in Citizen Science: A Bibliometric Analysis - Hazal Baytok, Université Paris-Sud/Paris Saclay

• “Peer review has always been a fucking nightmare”. Review and editorial practices in STS journals - Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner; Kean Birch, York University; Maria Amuchastegui, York University, Canada

• Re:search-A transdisciplinary methodological framework for search - Renée Ridgway, Copenhagen Business School

• Sociology of Science in Brazil: themes, approaches and institutions by scientific papers published between 2010 and 2018 - Marília Luz David, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS/Brasil); Lorena Fleury, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS); Adriano Premebida, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS); Jalcione Almeida, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

• Where are non-human animals in the design discourse? Deconstructing the Animal “Myth” - Elif Gökaltay

Session Organizer

• Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner