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Nuclear Disaster, Trauma, and the Rituals of Scientific Method
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho was keenly aware of the high price exacted of scientists who practise the rituals of the scientific method. After describing the... -
Is Evolutionary Psychology a Scientific Revolution? A Bibliometric Analysis
ObjectiveThe emergence and growth of Evolutionary Psychology (EP) in the behavioral sciences has been characterized as a “scientific revolution”...
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What Makes the Identity of a Scientific Method? A History of the “Structural and Analytical Typology” in the Growth of Evolutionary and Digital Archaeology in Southwestern Europe (1950s–2000s)
Usual narratives among prehistoric archaeologists consider typological approaches as part of a past and outdated episode in the history of research,...
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E-Science—A Key Driver for Scientific Research Paradigm
Scientific research paradigm is an important driving force to promote the transformation of scientific paradigm. At present, it is of great... -
Metascience as a Scientific Social Movement
The “reproducibility crisis” has been one of the most significant stories in science in the past 15 years and has led to significant policy changes...
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Post-truth and scientific authority
Post-truth refers to a social situation in which trust in clear and solid knowledge has been shaken, even though the ‘demand’ or ‘need’ for such...
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Hot Potato in Scientific Alien Research
The ancient aliens hypothesis, the UFO phenomenon as well as alien abductions—three very special subject areas that have been causing problems for... -
The Platformization of Science: Towards a Scientific Digital Platform Taxonomy
Despite the existence of studies addressing the historical development of digital platforms, none of them has yet drawn a coherent and comprehensive...
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Complexity theory as an exploratory paradigm: can scientific inquiry effectively measure individual’s challenging behaviour in a non-linear way
Theoretical constructs to explore neurocognitive management of challenging behaviour in young people are inherently fraught with the difficulty of...
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Method
This chapter first explains why platforms are considered black boxes. The method of the thesis is then derived from these assumptions and explained... -
A Reference Software Architecture for Managing, Processing and Serving Multi-field Scientific Data
Scientific data resources typically have the characteristics of rich data types, diverse fields, and close semantic links. Traditional e-scientific... -
Construction and Application of Data Intensive Knowledge Service Platform for Agricultural Scientific Research
With the accelerated penetration of new-generation information technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence applied in various fields,... -
Codes of Conduct and Scientific Integrity
Trust in the integrity, honesty, and quality of research is a pillar of both the scientific community and society in general. Without a sense of what... -
Advancing language models through domain knowledge integration: a comprehensive approach to training, evaluation, and optimization of social scientific neural word embeddings
This article proposes a comprehensive strategy for training, evaluating, and optimizing domain-specific word2vec-based word embeddings, using social...
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The Scientific Community in the Perspective of Relational Sociology
While sociologists of science initially tended to emphasize the set of norms constitutive of scientific communities and patterns of the circulation... -
Exploring food security as a multidimensional topic: twenty years of scientific publications and recent developments
The scientific literature dealing with food security is vast and fragmented, making it difficult to understand the state of the art and potential...
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Publishing Industry: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Scientific Production Indexed in Scopus
The general goal of this work is to carry out a bibliometric analysis of the scientific production in the publishing industry between 2012 and 2022....
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The variant of efforts avoiding strain: successful correction of a scientific discourse related to COVID-19
This study focuses on how scientifically accurate information is disseminated through social media, and how misinformation can be corrected. We have...
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Structural Power and Epistemologies in the Scientific Field: Why a Rapid Reconciliation Between Functional and Evolutionary Biology is Unlikely
The past decade has been marked by a series of global crises, presenting an opportunity to reevaluate the relationship between science and politics....
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Epistemology: The Foundations of Scientific Knowledge
At the beginning of the twentieth century, science became a specific, circumscribed and autonomous subject of reflection within philosophy. Interest...