Seminar
Special Seminar: Perspectives on the evaluation of science
- Emanuel Kulczycki, Alesia A. Zuccala, & Jochen Gläser
- Date
- Friday 31 October 2025
- Time
- Series
- CWTS Research Seminars
- Location
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Willem Einthoven
Kolffpad 1
2333 BN Leiden - Room
- Online & Common rooms, CWTS
We are delighted to host a special seminar featuring the members of Eleonora Dagiene’s external PhD committee, held the day after her PhD defence. This session will bring together three distinguished scholars to share their latest research on the structures, evaluation, and societal influence of science.
Why it’s worth to relaunch discussion about scientific communities
Emanuel Kulczycki
This presentation builds on my forthcoming book Collective Scientometrics: Why We Need a New Way to Measure Science. I argue that the dominance of individualized scientometrics – focused on single authors, papers, and citations and their aggregations – has obscured the central role of scientific communities in knowledge production and circulation. By revisiting forgotten alternative programs (from the Ossowskis to Nalimov and Mulchenko), I propose conceptual tools for a collective scientometrics and show why it is worth re-centring our evaluation practices on scientific communities to better capture the collaborative and relational nature of science.
The UN SDGs as a Global Directive Shift: Institutionalizing Sustainability Research through Journals
Alesia A. Zuccala
This research examines the influence of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on the institutionalization of sustainability research. We argue that the SDGs represent a globally endorsed form of external research agenda-setting, marking a ‘directive shift’ in science. Focusing on SDG 4 (Quality Education), SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth) SDG 13 (Climate Action), we conduct a bibliometric analysis of Scopus-indexed journals (1990–2024), to examine their entry and survival dynamics and contributive roles as new versus established outlets.
Analysing global processes in scientific communities
Jochen Gläser
Most of our knowledge about the way scientific communities operate has been produced by studying few research groups or researchers from the Global North. In the context of a project proposal on the cohesion of scientific communities and cohesion-maintaining processes, I had to develop a mixed-method approach for the empirical investigation of global processes in scientific communities. I will present this approach for discussion.