An empirical investigation of the tribes and their territories: Are research specialisms rural and urban?
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Highlights：
• We propose an operationalization of Becher and Trowler’s urban and rural analogy relying on bibliographic network connectivity.
• We test it on a dataset of 10 specialisms from 5 disciplines.
• The humanities (rural) are organised in many smaller topics, with a lower people-to-problem ration than the sciences (urban).
• The analogy does not apply with respect to the reliance on core sources between the two groups of disciplines, as the sciences have more of them.
• More work is needed in order to empirically test theories from the sociology of science and to theoretically inform empirical studies in quantitative science studies.
摘要
•We propose an operationalization of Becher and Trowler’s urban and rural analogy relying on bibliographic network connectivity.•We test it on a dataset of 10 specialisms from 5 disciplines.•The humanities (rural) are organised in many smaller topics, with a lower people-to-problem ration than the sciences (urban).•The analogy does not apply with respect to the reliance on core sources between the two groups of disciplines, as the sciences have more of them.•More work is needed in order to empirically test theories from the sociology of science and to theoretically inform empirical studies in quantitative science studies.
论文关键词：Humanities,Sociology of Science,Citation networks,Bibliographic coupling networks,Tribes and Territories
论文评审过程：Received 26 June 2018, Revised 21 September 2018, Accepted 18 November 2018, Available online 12 December 2018, Version of Record 12 December 2018.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.11.006
