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The Ironic Becomings of Reflexivity - The Case of Citation Theory in Bibliometrics
Das Ironisch-Werden von Reflexivität - Der Fall der Zitationstheorie in der Bibliometrie
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Abstract An attempt to capture the meaning of the term reflexive is incompletable. Rather than thinking of reflexivity as something fixed, it may be more productive to think of reflexivity as a process of becoming. Based on a conceptual framework inspired by Deleuze, the following contribution addresses noti... mehr
An attempt to capture the meaning of the term reflexive is incompletable. Rather than thinking of reflexivity as something fixed, it may be more productive to think of reflexivity as a process of becoming. Based on a conceptual framework inspired by Deleuze, the following contribution addresses notions of reflexivity between sociology and bibliometrics from a perspective of reflexive bibliometrics by a partial reconstruction, or, more precisely, a reconstructive rereading of the history of citation theory. I argue that following the procedural heuristic I will propose may be productive by neither framing reflexivity as an issue of static being of a discipline by asking "How reflexive are we?", nor an imperative of “We should be more reflexive!” but rather by asking "How and why do we want to become more reflexive by seeking connections to different perspectives?". Finally, I will discuss the potential of irony as a distancing function complementary to objectivity when applying the framework to your own discipline.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Reflexivität; Deleuze, G.; Scientometrie; Soziologie
Klassifikation
Wissenschaftssoziologie, Wissenschaftsforschung, Technikforschung, Techniksoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
bibliometrics; citation theory; becomings
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Seitenangabe
S. 155-177
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 46 (2021) 2
Heftthema
Positionality Reloaded: Debating the Dimensions of Reflexivity in the Relationship Between Science and Society
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)