Article ID: CBB306388295

“On the ruins of seriality”: The scientific journal and the nature of the scientific life (2023)

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Twenty-first-century discourse on science has been marked by narratives of crisis. Science is said to be experiencing crises of public trust, of peer review and publishing, of reproducibility and replicability, and of recognition and reward. The dominant response has been to “repair” the scientific literature and the system of scientific publishing through open science. This paper places the current predicament of scholarly communication in historical perspective by exploring the evolution of the scientific journal in the second half of the twentieth century. I focus on a new genre of scientific journal invented by Dutch commercial publishers shortly after World War II, and on its effects on the nature of the scientific life. I show that profit-oriented publishers and discipline-building scientists worked together to make postwar science more open, while also arguing that formats of scientific publication have their own agency.

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Authors & Contributors
Baldwin, Melinda Clare
Baram-Tsabari, Ayelet
Birch, Kean
Fyfe, Aileen
Giunta, Carmen J.
Gross, Dominik
Journals
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Social Studies of Science
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
History of Science
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Ashgate
Editions EHESS
Johns Hopkins University Press
Concepts
Scholarly publishing
Communication within scientific contexts
Scholarly journals
Scientific literature
Communication of scientific ideas
Artificial intelligence
People
Saltzman, Martin D.
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
Early modern
16th century
17th century
Places
Great Britain
Europe
France
Germany
Netherlands
Argentina
Institutions
History of Science Society
Royal Society of London
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
American Phytopathological Society
University of Copenhagen
University of Southern Denmark
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