In vitam et post-mortem: expressões de gratidão a Derek de Solla Price em agradecimentos e obituários acadêmicos

Main Authors: Hayashi, Maria Cristina Piumbato Innocentini, Maroldi, Alexandre Masson, Hayashi, Carlos Roberto Massao
Format: Journal PeerReviewed Book
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: , 2021
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Online Access: http://eprints.rclis.org/42920/1/document%20%2810%29.pdf
http://doi.org/10.24215/18539912e143
http://eprints.rclis.org/42920/
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  • In the science communication process, expressions of gratitude for contributions given and received by peers can reveal scientificrecognition to those who somehow contributed to a certain research and to advance knowledge in a specific area. In this context,the object of study of this article is the acknowledgments and academic obituaries published in scientific journals, with the aim ofanalyzing the presence of the invisible college and the scientific collaboration of Derek de Solla Price in these publications. eadopted methodology combined bibliometric and content analysis. The data source was Google Scholar and the research corpusconsisted of articles (n = 46) containing acknowledgments and academic obituaries (n = 26) to Price. e following variableswere analyzed: authors and authors, time evolution of articles, titles of journals and areas of knowledge of acknowledgmentsand academic obituaries. The results revealed that Price's invisible college and scientific collaboration network were composed ofauthors from the fields of scientometry, sociology of science and history of science and technology.