[Fis] Trajectories and Regimes in Research and Knowledge Evaluations: Contributions to an Evolutionary Theory of Citation?

[Loet Leydesdorff]

Trajectories and Regimes in Research and Knowledge Evaluations:
Contributions to an Evolutionary Theory of Citation?

Loet Leydesdorff, Lin Zhang, & Paul Wouters.

Preprint available at 
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4073223.

Abstract

Citation analysis can provide us with models of the evolutionary 
dynamics in interhuman communications. In the cited direction, 
observable citations can be aligned along historical trajectories and 
used for institutionally oriented research evaluation. In the citing 
direction, the knowledge contents are evaluated. The forward (cited) and 
the reflexive (citing) directions are relevant for research and 
knowledge evaluations, respectively, and for an evolutionary theory of 
citation. By recursively selecting on historical trajectories, an 
evolutionary regime of expectations can be a consequence of the cycling 
of information. Under selection pressure, orders of expectations 
co-evolve on top of the historical trajectories. We propose a model with 
indicators for measurement in both the cited and citing directions using 
(i) a set of papers in the environment of a single journal (Public 
Understanding of Science), (ii) a random sample of journals, and (iii) 
the entire journal set of the Web-of-Science (more than 10,000 
journals). The models and measurements serve as a proof of concept.
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<https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030599508>Loet Leydesdorff



"The Evolutionary Dynamics of Discusive Knowledge" 
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-59951-5>(Open Access)

Professor emeritus, University of Amsterdam

Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)

loet en leydesdorff.net <mailto:loet en leydesdorff.net>; 
http://www.leydesdorff.net/

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7835-3098;


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