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<div id="divRpF539876" style="direction: ltr;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#000000"><b>De:</b> Rafael Capurro [rafael@capurro.de]<br>
<b>Enviado el:</b> sábado, 16 de mayo de 2015 9:34<br>
<b>Para:</b> PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ<br>
<b>Asunto:</b> Re: [Fis] THE FOURTH GREAT DOMAIN OF SCIENCE: INFORMATIONAL?<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Karl Popper once suggested (Conjectures and Refutations, p. 67) that we should not think in terms or "subject matter(s)" or "disciplines" but in terms of "problems". Problems do not arise within a fixed definition of a discipline ("essentialism")
but within a tradition where a theory is being discussed. In this sense, theories are in some sense "disciplines" or can be conceived as "loose clusters" of theories. But Popper speaks about a "world of problems in themselves" which is a kind of Platonism
not only because it separates such "problems in themselves" from their connection to the world _as_ perceived (ie. interpreted) by humans, but also because it creates a knowledge hierarchy by giving theoretical knowledge a higher status than practical knowledge.
Thirty years ago (sic) I wrote some thoughts on this issue. See: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.capurro.de/trita.htm" target="_blank">
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It is important to say that Rosembloom suggested a new way of seeing disciplines. For him, any discipline is composed by 4 great scientific domains (these domains are not disciplines). For example: biophysics = L + P (chapter 2).<br>
To be a great domain there are requisites (chapter 6) and we defend that Informational is the 4th scientific domain.<br>
The problem is to verify (with bibliometrics) if this is a good approach. I think Loet's method can be a very good to make this verification.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Best,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Moisés André Nisenbaum<br>
Enviado do meu tablet</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">Em 15/05/2015 12:43, "Dino Buzzetti" <<a href="mailto:dino.buzzetti@gmail.com" target="_blank">dino.buzzetti@gmail.com</a>> escreveu:<br type="attribution">
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">And what about history, philosophy, philology and so on ? aren't they
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sciences at all ? what's the epistemological ground of your "classification" <br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">of sciences ? isn't the absence of maths in the map a problem at all ? aren't
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biology, physics, computer science, and other natural sciences, mentioned <br>
in philosophy of science, history of science and so on ? is the history of <br>
science an historian's or a natural scientist's business ? do natural scientists
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care about it at all ? or isn't it anybody's concern the extension of bibliometric
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criteria to the evaluation of research in the domains of history, philosophy, <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 15 May 2015 at 10:25, Loet Leydesdorff <span dir="ltr">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Dear Soren,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">We formulated at p. 591 of: Loet Leydesdorff, Stephen Carley, and Ismael Rafols,
<a href="http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1202/1202.1914.pdf" target="_blank">Global Maps of Science based on the new Web-of-Science Categories,
</a><i>Scientometrics</i> 94(2) (2013) 589-593; <<a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11192-012-0784-8" target="_blank">open access</a>> [<a href="http://www.leydesdorff.net/overlaytoolkit/" target="_blank">software</a>], as follows:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#44546a">“The organization into these four groups (biomedical, physical, environmental, and social sciences) is now provided as another (optional) partition within
the Pajek (.paj) file containing the base map, and is also made available as input to VOSviewer.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1f497d">The partitioning into four and six domains was generated by my co-authors. I prefer to use the 19 disciplines on the basis of factor analysis of the matrix.
However, one can ask for a four-factor solution, and then one is free to designate the factors.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1f497d">In the figure below, I overlaid Pedro’s 23 publications included in WoS in terms of these four major domains. Making such portfolio overlays is the main purpose
of the technique.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1f497d"><img src="cid:part7.07000909.01070407@capurro.de" height="513" width="1021" border="0"></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1f497d"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1f497d">The nodes are sized with the log(n+1); n is the number of publications. (The “+1” prevents single publications from disappearing.)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1f497d">Best,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1f497d">PS. This is my second mailing during this week. L.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1f497d">Loet Leydesdorff
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1f497d">Emeritus</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1f497d"> University of Amsterdam<br>
Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#44546a"><a href="mailto:loet@leydesdorff.net" title="mailto:loet@leydesdorff.net" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">loet@leydesdorff.net
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#44546a"><a href="http://www.leydesdorff.net/" title="http://www.leydesdorff.net/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">http://www.leydesdorff.net/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1f497d">
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Honorary Professor,
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Prof.em. Dr. Rafael Capurro
Hochschule der Medien (HdM), Stuttgart, Germany
Capurro Fiek Foundation for Information Ethics (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.capurro-fiek-foundation.org" target="_blank">http://www.capurro-fiek-foundation.org</a>)
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Prof.em. Dr. Rafael Capurro
Hochschule der Medien (HdM), Stuttgart, Germany
Capurro Fiek Foundation for Information Ethics (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.capurro-fiek-foundation.org" target="_blank">http://www.capurro-fiek-foundation.org</a>)
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