Article ID: CBB093363870

Beams of particles and papers: How digital preprint archives shape authorship and credit (August 2016)

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Delfanti, Alessandro (Author)


Social Studies of Science
Volume: 46
Issue: 4
Pages: 629-645


Publication Date: August 2016
Edition Details: Special ad hoc section: arXiv
Language: English

In high energy physics, scholarly papers circulate primarily through online preprint archives based on a centralized repository, arXiv, that physicists simply refer to as ‘the archive’. The archive is not just a tool for preservation and memory but also a space of flows where written objects are detected and their authors made available for scrutiny. In this article, I analyze the reading and publishing practices of two subsets of high energy physicists: theorists and experimentalists. In order to be recognized as legitimate and productive members of their community, they need to abide by the temporalities and authorial practices structured by the archive. Theorists live in a state of accelerated time that shapes their reading and publishing practices around precise cycles. Experimentalists turn to tactics that allow them to circumvent the slowed-down time and invisibility they experience as members of large collaborations. As digital platforms for the exchange of scholarly articles emerge in other fields, high energy physics could help shed light on general transformations of contemporary scholarly communication systems.

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Authors & Contributors
Sismondo, Sergio
Luis Reyes-Galindo
Remo Fernández Carro
Pierandrea Lo Nostro
Sophie Ritson
Koen Vermier
Concepts
Communication of scientific ideas
Scientific literature
Peer review
Publishers and publishing
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Open access
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21st century
17th century
20th century
19th century
18th century
Early modern
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Africa
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