“Structuration” by intellectual organization: the configuration of knowledge in relations among structural components in networks of science.

Autor/in	Leydesdorff, Loet
Titel	“Structuration” by intellectual organization: the configuration of knowledge in relations among structural components in networks of science.
Quelle	In: Scientometrics, (2011) 2, S.499-520 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0138-9130
DOI	10.1007/s11192-011-0397-7
Schlagwörter	Meaning; Knowledge; Dynamics; Configuration; Redundancy; Synergy; Journal; Citation
Abstract	Abstract Using aggregated journal–journal citation networks, the measurement of the knowledge base in empirical systems is factor-analyzed in two cases of interdisciplinary developments during the period 1995–2005: (i) the development of nanotechnology in the natural sciences and (ii) the development of communication studies as an interdiscipline between social psychology and political science. The results are compared with a case of stable development: the citation networks of core journals in chemistry. These citation networks are intellectually organized by networks of expectations in the knowledge base at the specialty (that is, above-journal) level. The “structuration” of structural components (over time) can be measured as configurational information. The latter is compared with the Shannon-type information generated in the interactions among structural components: the difference between these two measures provides us with a measure for the redundancy generated by the specification of a model in the knowledge base of the system. This knowledge base incurs (against the entropy law) to variable extents on the knowledge infrastructures provided by the observable networks of relations.
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Update	2023/2/05