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INFORMATION AND SCIENCE STUDIES:
Over the past, there has always been one dominant language in sciences
starting with Latin, French over to German. The paradigm pluralism and
the heterogeneity of languages in sciences in accordance to the
scientific discipline intern-interest and publishing stile (Galtung
1983) has developed over centuries. The current neoliberal numeric
“performance” tournaments either based on citation counting or
university ranking business, is ignorant to the existent variety of
disciplinary differences. Globally, the academic work is not primary
anymore about the “production and dissemination of knowledge”, but
rather macro-economic process of ensuring institutional survival and
international economic competitiveness for those who hold power (Smyth
2017). The scientific evaluation machinery is blind and ignorant to
existent errors (Tüür-Fröhlich 2016), biases, gender-related issues and
inter-cultural differences. The scientific endeavour and the research
results are becoming more accessible only for those with available
resources therefore, the rise of predatory journals and fraud in
sciences are no more of an exception, rather daily routine.
References:
Galtung, Johan (1983): Struktur, Kultur und intellektueller Stil. Ein
vergleichender Essay über
sachsonische, teutonische, gallische und nipponische Wissenschaft. In:
Leviathan 3, München,
S. 303-338.
Fröhlich, Gerhard (2008): Wissenschaftskommunikation und ihre
Dysfunktionen: Wissenschaftsjournale, Peer Review, Impact Faktoren, in:
Hettwer, Holger et al. (Hg.): WissensWelten. Gütersloh: Verlag der
Bertelsmann Stiftung, 64-80.
Smyth, John (2017): The toxic university. Zombie leadership, academic
rock stars and neoliberal ideology. Palgrave UK: Palgrave Critical
University Studies.
Tüür-Fröhlich, Terje (2016): The Non-trivial Effects of Trivial Errors
in Scientific Communication and Evaluation. Schriften zur
Informationswissenschaft; Bd. 69. Glückstadt/D: vwh |
| Literatur |
Galtung, Johan (1983): Struktur, Kultur und intellektueller Stil. Ein
vergleichender Essay über
sachsonische, teutonische, gallische und nipponische Wissenschaft. In:
Leviathan 3, München,
S. 303-338.
Fröhlich, Gerhard (2008): Wissenschaftskommunikation und ihre
Dysfunktionen: Wissenschaftsjournale, Peer Review, Impact Faktoren, in:
Hettwer, Holger et al. (Hg.): WissensWelten. Gütersloh: Verlag der
Bertelsmann Stiftung, 64-80.
Smyth, John (2017): The toxic university. Zombie leadership, academic
rock stars and neoliberal ideology. Palgrave UK: Palgrave Critical
University Studies.
Tüür-Fröhlich, Terje (2016): The Non-trivial Effects of Trivial Errors
in Scientific Communication and Evaluation. Schriften zur
Informationswissenschaft; Bd. 69. Glückstadt/D: vwh |
