Structure Of Knowledge Production Research Articles

The association of disciplinary background with the evolution of topics and methods in Library and Information Science research 1995–2015

AbstractThe paper reports a longitudinal analysis of the topical and methodological development of Library and Information Science (LIS). Its focus is on the effects of researchers' disciplines on these developments. The study extends an earlier cross‐sectional study (Vakkari et al., Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2022a, 73, 1706–1722) by a coordinated dataset representing a content analysis of articles published in 31 scholarly LIS journals in 1995, 2005, and 2015. It is novel in its coverage of authors' disciplines, topical and methodological aspects in a coordinated dataset spanning two decades thus allowing trend analysis. The findings include a shrinking trend in the share of LIS from 67 to 36% while Computer Science, and Business and Economics increase their share from 9 and 6% to 21 and 16%, respectively. The earlier cross‐sectional study (Vakkari et al., Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2022a, 73, 1706–1722) for the year 2015 identified three topical clusters of LIS research, focusing on topical subfields, methodologies, and contributing disciplines. Correspondence analysis confirms their existence already in 1995 and traces their development through the decades. The contributing disciplines infuse their concepts, research questions, and approaches to LIS and may also subsume vital parts of LIS in their own structures of knowledge production.

Evolution of Knowledge Structure in an Emerging Field Based on a Triple Helix Model: the Case of Smart Factory

As an important emerging field of science and technology, smart factories have received attention from academia, industry, and the government. Currently, although some scholars have examined the research trends in the field of smart factories, we have not found any research on the analysis of the knowledge output of relevant organizations among smart factories. An urgent problem is whether cooperation between organizations with different characteristics will affect the overall development of intelligent factories. This study aimed to perform a comprehensive analysis of the knowledge content and structure of a smart factory and the characteristics of its knowledge production structure. We also evaluated whether the triple helix structure was stable, and whether the research topics of different issues were similar. The triple helix model was used to study three aspects of the knowledge structure of a smart factory: university, government, and industry. Furthermore, the research contents of different organizations were analyzed in detail using network analysis. It was found that research funding at the national level leads to a knowledge spillover effect. After 2015, a triple helix knowledge structure was formed in the field of smart factories, which maintained a certain stability until 2020. The output of triple helix cooperation research has a significant impact. University research focuses more extensively and intensively on technology, government research on macro aspects, and Industry 5.0 has become a hotspot in industry research. The government needs to provide new platforms to integrate and promote the development of smart factories.

The Effect of Competition among a Firm’s Partners on its Knowledge Production Structure and Outcome

A large body of research suggests that firms benefit from alliances by recombining knowledge obtained from different alliance partners. However, this strategy is premised on the ability of the firm to cross-pollinate knowledge by sharing information freely within its boundaries. But such unrestricted knowledge flows can create leakage concerns for the firm’s alliance partners when the firm’s portfolio of alliance ties includes partners who compete with each other. Even inadvertently, interactions and communications among the firm’s knowledge workers can create a conduit for spillovers to competing partners. This opens up the possibility that to address its partners’ concerns, the firm might segregate its knowledge workers, in effect establishing structural safeguards. Using a sample of public bio-pharmaceutical firms, we demonstrate how competition among a firm’s alliance partners leads to such segregation among its knowledge workers, and show that the effect of such segregation is to undermine the very benefits of recombination by reducing the firm’s overall inventiveness. In doing so, our study contributes to the literature at the intersection of corporate strategy, organization design, and innovation.

Networked reports: Commissioning and production of expert reports on Swedish health care governance

AbstractThe article analyzes the commissioning and production of expert reports about Swedish health care management and governance. We show that these reports are rarely solitary stand‐alone products, but tend to form clusters in an evolving discourse centered around specific policy solutions. We also show that the most important producers of such reports tend to come from a small circle of informally recruited academics and policy experts representing a narrow segment of academic disciplines. We point to some of the risks involved in this structure of knowledge production and argue that reports: (a) may form their own environment rather than address real problems; (b) may reproduce certain taken‐for‐granted assumptions and critical lacunae; (c) may have their impact decided by their network connections rather than by their intellectual content; and (d) represent a structure that provides opportunities for special interests to enter the process.Related ArticlesCaliskan, Cantay. 2020. “The Influence of Elite Networks on Green Policy Making.” Politics & Policy 48(6): 1104–37. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12382Selling, Niels, and Stefan Svallfors. 2019. “The Lure of Power: Career Paths and Considerations among Policy Professionals in Sweden.” Politics & Policy 47(5): 984–1012. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12325Shen, Yongdong, Meng U. Ieong, and Zihang Zhu. 2022. “The Function of Expert Involvement in China's Local Policy Making.” Politics & Policy 50(1): 59–76. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12450

African Humanities and the Paradox of Western Education in Ghana

The pre-colonial era of Africa was characterized, among other things, by a traditional or informal system of education. Some of the emphases of traditional education were (and still are) Africans’ delight, expression and appropriation of their beliefs, values, precepts and ideals. Despite these laudable emphases, the traditional system of education is characterized by some scholars as lacking a formal or systemized structure of knowledge production. Moreover, the post-colonial debates on the influence of Western education in Africa in general and Ghana, in particular, are conspicuously silent on Western education’s role in gradually altering the economic ideology of Ghana from a mixed and socialist economy to a capitalist mode of production. Using secondary data sources, this paper argues that the traditional system of education was (and still is) somehow structured or systemized almost as the formal or Western education. It also contends that Western education is gradually spearheading a paradigmatic shift in Ghana’s economic system from mixed economy to capitalism. It further maintains that recourse to African humanities would mitigate the unbridled effects of capitalism in Ghana. Keywords: African humanities, Western education, traditional education, economic system.

Covid-19, Knowledge Production and the (Un)Making of Truths and Fakes

ABSTRACT The Covid-19 pandemic is one of the most disruptive phenomena of our time. It has threatened and destabilised the normative, it has stoked fear and anxiety, and laid bare the fragility of our systems of governance, medical science and the immanent tensions within our knowledge systems. The pandemic has provoked a fundamental collision of these systems, leaving in its wake confusion as we struggle over meaning; the production of meaning, its husbandry and political instrumentalisation as a tool for domination and resistance. This article explores the emerging reconfiguration of the certainty about what is authentic or the truth, and of the un/certainty of the fake and fakery as alternative or complementary sites of truth(s). It argues that we are now faced with a complex and layered contestation over who gets to define the truth and the fake, and under what terms. This conversation is deeply insurrectional for it invites the whole world, centres and margins alike, to confront how political, cultural, economic and social values and structures of knowledge production are implicated in the making and unmaking of the authentic, of truth as well as of the fake.

Anatomy of a Ḍākinī: Female Consort Discourse in a Case of Fourteenth-Century Tibetan Buddhist Literature

In the wake of the brave voices of the #metoo movement, Buddhist responses to sexual abuse have led to important questions about Buddhist sexual ethics and the female consort in Tibetan cultures. One issue raised by current debates is the question of who is an appropriate consort, a discourse that has historical precedent. These debates highlight the gaps left by the understudied history of consorts in Tibetan tantric communities. This research addresses that history through a study of female consort discourse in key scriptures of the Great Perfection (rdzogs chen) from the fourteenth century. The text studied is The Ḍākki’s Path and Fruit (dakki lam ‘bras skor), which is part of a corpus known as The Seminal Heart of the Ḍākinī. The scriptures are analyzed in terms of taxonomic discourse, interpreted with attention to structures of knowledge production as described by Foucault. It addresses the discursive transformations that facilitated the inclusion of women in the androcentric world of esoteric Tibetan Buddhism. Overall, the argument is made that this scripture sheds light on how knowledge of women and sexuality was constructed in a web of ever-changing, contradicting, competing discourses that reflect an ambivalent misogyny that simultaneously promoted and subjugated women.

Land and ethnographic practices—(re)making toward healing

ABSTRACT While ‘place-making’ is a productive concept for many scholars, I consider land relations and research through Indigenous (re)making by narrating embodied and experiential ethnographic approaches. Through (re)making, one reimagines ethnography and ethnographic practices with Indigenous land and Indigenous land practices that work to contribute to forms of decolonial healing and Indigenous survivance. In consideration of the wounds among multiple bodies, not only humans, for which large-scale settler-colonial agricultural plantations in Hawai’i and the Sonoran Desert are responsible, this work discusses possibilities for (re)making toward healing with land. Song, poetry, and story are the agents who make such engagements with many more-than-(but including)-human collaborators translatable. As such, it asks how an understanding of ethnography in the contexts of Indigenous science and technology studies that cares about environmental research might shift the ways in which methodologies are formed and ‘data’ is shaped. And it asks how ethnographic practitioners might better affirm the plights, journeys, cycles, relations, and encounters that more-than-human beings experience, remember, hold, and live. This is one contribution among many that attend to the variety of ways in which ethnographic texts are formed and understood in Indigenous research practices that challenge Euro-Western genres and structures of knowledge production, and how/with whom such knowledges and practices are co-created.

국내외 기술규제연구의 구조와 동향 분석

신기술의 시장도입 속도가 빨라지면서 기술규제는 국가혁신체제의 제도적 기반에 있어 매우 중요한 요소로 등장하였다. 따라서 기술규제연구의 현황을 분석하여 향후 연구의 발전방향과 정책적 시사점을 모색할 필요가 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 국내외 기술규제연구 논문 15,336건의 서지데이터를 수집하여, 빈도분석, 사회연결망분석 등의 계량서지 분석을 수행하였다. 분석 결과, 국내 연구 활동은 초기에 감소하다가 최근에 다시 증가한 반면, 해외 연구활동은 꾸준한 증가세를 보였다. 국내 기술규제연구는 주로 법학분야에서 이루어지지만, 해외에서는 여러 공학 분야에서 고르게 이루어졌다. 연구의 주제와 내용에 있어서, 국내에서는 특정 사회적 이슈나 세부 정책 내용과 관련된 규제연구가 연도별로 급격히 변화하면서 진행되었다면, 해외에서는 학술적 관점이 유지되면서 기술규제의 인프라나 기반과 관련된 주제어가 꾸준하게 유지되는 것으로 나타났다. 해외 기술규제연구에 있어서는 주로 앵글로색슨 국가를 중심으로 연구가 진행되고 있었으며, 우리나라는 이들과 주로 협력을 진행하고 있었다. 분석결과를 바탕으로 몇 가지 정책적 시사점을 제시하였다. 첫째, 기술규제연구의 기반을 법학 중심에서 벗어나 융합적 연구활동을 강화할 필요가 있다. 둘째, 지금까지의 연구 내용을 기반으로 공통적인 기술규제의 이론적 요소를 도출하고, 이를 기반으로 하는 적절한 분석 틀을 구축하여야 한다. 셋째, 단기 대응적 이슈 중심의 연구에서 벗어나 지속가능한 기술규제연구의 학문적, 제도적 기반을 마련하는 것에 노력해야 한다.

Guidance as ‘Women’s Work’: A New Generation of Female Islamic Authorities in Britain

This article is about a new publicly visible generation of female Islamic authorities in the UK and the ways in which they make sense of what it means to be a female authority within largely male-dominated structures of knowledge production. These authorities are setting up their own institutes and emphasising the importance of drawing from within the Islamic tradition while contextualising it in the British context. On the one hand, they stress their unique ability as women to provide personal and collective guidance, based on relationships of empathy and care, that addresses the needs of Muslim women in Britain. On the other hand, they recognise the limitations of presenting guidance as ‘women’s work’, and they seek to pluralise their roles or to present gender as irrelevant in their work. By navigating between accepting, pluralising and transcending female modes of authority, they carve out legitimate spaces for themselves as female leaders while developing and imagining new understandings of Islamic knowledge and plural models of pious leadership. I argue that these multiple ways of making sense of their experiences move us away from theorising female religious leadership solely through binary tropes, such as liberal/orthodox Islam, resistance/compliance, enabling/constraining, which continue to shape research in the field.

Knowledge polycentricity and the evolving Yangtze River Delta megalopolis

ABSTRACTKnowledge polycentricity and the evolving Yangtze River Delta megalopolis. Regional Studies. Inspired by the two defining but often overlooked features of megalopolises as ‘hinges’ and ‘incubators’, this paper presents a multi-scalar and dynamic analysis of the knowledge polycentricity of China’s Yangtze River Delta Region. Using data on publications and co-publications from 2000 to 2014, the results show that the structures of knowledge production and knowledge collaboration within and beyond the region have, to differing degrees, become more polycentric. Whereas the region has acted as an ‘incubator’ of knowledge at the megalopolitan scale, its ‘hinge’ role in knowledge collaboration has been mainly played at the national scale.

Transnationalization of Law and Legal Scholarship: Intellectual and Institutional Challenges

AbstractLaw is changing, and with it, so too the systems of higher education and research. Over the past two decades, both have been undergoing a progressive process of transnationalisation. In the field of law, we are currently experiencing a proliferation of transnational law. In the systems of higher education and research, national structures of knowledge production are giving way to transnational institutional frameworks. Disciplinary boundaries are becoming more permeable. Today, legal scholars have to engage in an increasingly interdisciplinary and transnational dialogue on law. The aim of this piece is to provide an overview of that process and highlight several significant consequences this development might potentially hold for legal scholarship (and its media).

Actionable Knowledge for Environmental Decision Making: Broadening the Usability of Climate Science

Despite the rapid evolution and growing complexity in models of science-society interaction, the rate and breadth of use of scientific knowledge in environmental decision making, especially related to climate variability and change, remain below expectations. This suggests a persistent gap between production and use that, to date, efforts to rethink and restructure science production have not been able to surmount. We review different models of science-policy interfaces to understand how they have influenced the organization of knowledge production and application. We then explore how new approaches to the creation of knowledge have emerged, involving both growing integration across disciplines and greater interaction with users. Finally, we review climate information use in the United States and United Kingdom to explore how the structure of knowledge production and the characteristics of users and their decision environments expose the challenges of broadening usable climate science.

The International Anarchist Archives: A Report on Conditions and a Proposal for Action

Historians spend great amounts of time searching for a flake or fragment of past that will illuminate a story or provide evidence of someone thought or did. Because historians encounter past through these collections, themselves hold great sway over histories are written. In this way, influence narratives which give our lives meaning, impacting past is remembered and even contemporary identities are formed. Yet, archival collections are often found lacking; particularly when it comes to material that informs groups who stood outside mainstream or elite sectors of society. This has important implications for both researchers and activists. As Steve Lubar, a scholar at Smithsonian National Museum of American History, comments, we must think of as active, not passive, as sites of power, not as recorders of power. Archives don't simply record work of culture; they do work of culture.1Silence in archive impacts not only researchers but also activists, organizers, and revolutionaries involved with ongoing struggles. Francis Blouin and William Rosenburg assert that can affect not only how past is shaped and represented but it is linked to future... help to structure (or 'write') future will be like.2 Since French Revolution, have also played an important role in centralizing governmental power and shaping citizens' ties to nation-states and economic systems. Blouin and Rosenburg argue that, what goes on in an archive reflects individuals, institutions, states, and societies imagine themselves to have been, as well as they imagine themselves becoming. It is therefore no wonder that groups who stand in active opposition to state and capitalism have received marginal coverage in mainstream archival records and have been relegated to a subaltern position on periphery of public memory.4To understand significance of this problem, one must understand political nature of and history in general. In order to shape history in a way that benefits their own narrative, states don't need to cover anything up as much as exclude it from conversation. As Blouin and Rosenburg point out, the ways in which records are acquired, appraised, organized, and cataloged clearly help to determine historians and others will be able to explore about past and how, consequently, past can be 'produced.'5 The preservation of material produced by radical groups is particularly illustrative of this point. For example, anyone familiar with groups knows quite well volume, diversity and creativity of their cultural production. However, due to underfunding and absence of produced materials in majority of state and public archives, very little material created by anarchists has ever been preserved or made available to researchers. This situation limits historians' ability to research history and thus to fully understand cultural and historic impact of movement; additionally it hinders contemporary radical critique, identity formation, and tactical evolution.ANARCHIST ARCHIVESIn context of movement, demonstrate both negative implications of power as evidenced by exclusion of materials from mainstream and self-affirming potential of community-based archival projects which preserve materials. A number of independent anarchist archives began as personal collections of activists and others were formed as community members came forward with a desire to preserve local history. The majority of these volunteer exist outside of traditional institutions or structures of knowledge production. In following pages I will report on general characteristics and status of a number of these archives. …

Mapping Knowledge Domains: The Structure of Knowledge Production and the Status ofTheory in Korean Sociology 2004-2010

Mapping Knowledge Domains: The Structure of Knowledge Production and the Status ofTheory in Korean Sociology 2004-2010

Performative Galleries: Integrating Applied Theatre and Digital Media Into Museum Settings

Many parallels exists between museum and theatre practices, as both fields work to become culturally and personally relevant and accessible, as well as competitive and compatible with rapidly developing media and technology. Through an exploration of mappingDESIRE, an applied digital media and performance project, this article examines the use of live performance and online story-mapping to (re)present marginalized narratives and local points of view. The author explores new approaches to actively engaging young audiences, and offers possibilities for re-imagining traditional structures of knowledge production in museum settings.

Online Technologies and Knowledge Production in the Natural Sciences

Epistemic communities consist of structures and selectivities in citation and referencing that scientists as practical and economic reasoners use in order to establish scientific credit and capital in their specialized field. Knowledge then becomes a product of social and economic shaping based on selectivities, or decision-making processes in the epistemic community. This paper looks at the use of online resources (i.e., journal databases) in the natural sciences programs (i.e., physics, chemistry, and biology) of two Philippine universities, through key informant interviews with graduating students, thesis advisers, and library personnel. In this context, scientific credit and capital are gained by researchers from the credibility of the resources that they use (i.e., authors and research institutions cited in their thesis), although this is limited by the availability of resources in the universities. The availability of online materials is associated with functional meanings such as convenience. Meanwhile, the substantive meanings of the availability of online resources show the dilemma of universities in balancing costs and research independence, since findings show that the online usage in both universities is insufficient to maximize the costs spent in purchasing the online resources. The first university values knowledge production more than cost-efficiency in the acquisition of references, thus, the structure of knowledge production is more accommodating to the selectivities of its researchers. In contrast, it is seen that the structure of knowledge production in the second university regard costs as more important. This causes its researchers to use non-online materials.

Intelligent Design and the Attack on Scientific Inquiry

This article considers the question of intelligent design in relation to the principles of scientific inquiry and academic freedom. The authors examine the structure of research as a task of events to advance knowledge; an individual, interpretive process; and a social/public discourse. Using this framework, they consider how the advancement of intelligent design has occurred outside the traditional structure of knowledge production in the academy. They consider the influence on ideology as well as the public role in scientific knowledge. By enabling ideologies to operate outside of the balance of scientific inquiry and peer review, the process of knowledge production is reduced to a biased power struggle manipulated by personal agendas.

Universities and Innovation in the Knowledge Economy

The last decade has seen a growing increase in policy discourse in many countries on entrepreneurship and innovation with a prominent emphasis on the role to be played by universities. However, it is far from clear to what extent institutional behaviours are influenced by this enterprising policy discourse based on the broad assumption that is the most precious asset for economic growth in the knowledge economy. This article examines the links developing between the universities and innovation processes especially at the regional level as observed in the United Kingdom, highlighting interactions between public policy and institutional behaviour in a multi-level governance (MLG) structure of knowledge production. Different strategic processes of networking between universities and the links universities are developing with Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) and other partners in nine English regions are illustrated in light of recent government policies which influence the resources and strategies of universities. Universities need to be analysed as critical actors in regional development processes, and their wide range of activities and strategies at different geographical levels need to be strategically co-ordinated as part of a territorial development process within the globalising knowledge economy.

Discourse Synthesis: The Structure of Knowledge Production

(2003). Discourse Synthesis: The Structure of Knowledge Production. Social Epistemology: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 79-87.