Abstract
Abstract. The article is dedicated to the analysis of the International Commission of Continental Erosion (ICCE) of International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) activity since foundation in 1981. The empirical data is the collections of scientific articles, published in IAHS Red Books after symposiums and workshops, organized by the ICCE. 2460 authors published articles in Red Books, 81 % of them have publication in the one issue. The most active contributors (who have articles in 7 or more issues) compose a group of 39 scientists (1.6 % from the total number of authors). Researchers from 89 countries were published articles in the ICCE issues of Red Books. The activity of the ICCE can be described by a cyclic model of growth. It is shown that the ICCE scientific community is becoming progressively global.
Highlights
In a broad sense a scientific community is understood as a complex self-organizing system, which includes along with individual scientists, various state institutions, public and commercial organizations, formal and informal groups, etc., which are interacting in the process of scientific activity both with one another and with external environment
Only sustainable and productive scientific groups can be taken as a research subject, since their history allows to trace the dynamics of their development during long-term time interval
Scientometric analysis of the International Commission of Continental Erosion (ICCE) activity shows, that the ICCE scientific community has been actively developing to become at the moment “formed” and “stable” and to have a strong potential for further growth
Summary
In a broad sense a scientific community is understood as a complex self-organizing system, which includes along with individual scientists, various state institutions, public and commercial organizations, formal and informal groups, etc., which are interacting in the process of scientific activity both with one another and with external environment. The study of structure and functioning of scientific groups and communities is required to determine their role in the development of a certain scientific direction, to forecast the main trends of such development, and to increase the efficiency of management in scientific activities. The research subject in the area of scientific communities is a scientific laboratory, which is recognized to be the most important unit of collective scientific activity. There is abundant proof of studying a scientific laboratory as the main structure element of a scientific community (Pelz and Andrews, 1966; Knorr-Cetina, 1981, 1999; Woolgar and Latour, 1986). The described methodology of research can be used as a proven basis for further investigation of scientific groups and communities
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