'science' Tag

• Perils of Keyword-Based Bibliometrics: ISI’s ’1990 Effect’

  February 5, 2010

  Have you done historical bibliometric analysis of a scientific field or topic area and found that there is a massive increase in research articles after 1990?  Are you using ISI’s Web of Science and searching by topic or keyword?  If so, don’t make the same mistake I did: these results aren’t because of some sea [...]

  posted in Blog Posts by R. Stuart Geiger

• Working Within Wikipedia: Infrastructures of Knowing and Knowledge Production

  March 30, 2009

  While Wikipedia does have epistemic standards, the open question is how such an epistemology can be operationalized and enforced.

  posted in Conference Presentations, Wikis by R. Stuart Geiger

• Response: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn

  November 1, 2008

  A response to Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, in which his work is applied to a personal vignette of experimentation practices in a High School Physics class. When in the course of scientific education should students be allowed to modify scientific theories to fit experimental data instead of modifying experiments to fit the theories?

  posted in Reviews and Responses by R. Stuart Geiger