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SUMMARY:CEFISES Seminar: Vincent Holst\, "The Curious Case of the Declining Disruption's Disappearance in Science"
DESCRIPTION:Series: Digital Approaches \nSpeaker: Vincent Holst (Data Analytics Lab\, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) \nTitle: “The Curious Case of the Declining Disruption’s Disappearance in Science” \nAbstract: The research field called Science of Science aims to detect structural patterns in science itself. A prominent example is the widely recognized study by Park et al. (2023) that reported a decline in the disruptiveness of scientific and technological knowledge over time. Their main finding is based on the computation of CD indices\, a measure of disruption in citation networks\, across almost 45 million papers and 3.9 million patents. However\, our recent preprint (Holst et al.\, 2024) fundamentally questions these results. In this talk\, I will elaborate how we detected a software bug that hid a large number of maximally disruptive outliers\, which turns out to be the main driver behind the reported decline of disruption. More precisely\, the majority of the hidden outliers corresponds to database entries with zero references and the decline in disruptiveness is merely reflecting a relative decrease in those entries. Moreover\, while these papers and patents with supposedly zero references are the hidden drivers of the reported decline\, their source documents predominantly do make references\, exposing them as pure dataset artefacts. I will also explain why the two main robustness checks in the original manuscript\, a regression analysis and Monte Carlo simulations\, failed to detect the apparent effect of the hidden outliers and elaborate on the challenges that we faced revolving around closed-source databases used in the study by Park et al. (2023). \n– Park\, M.\, Leahey\, E.\, & Funk\, R. J. (2023). Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time. Nature\, 613(7942)\, 138-144.\n– Holst\, V.\, Algaba\, A.\, Tori\, F.\, Wenmackers\, S.\, & Ginis\, V. (2024). Dataset artefacts are the hidden drivers of the declining disruptiveness in science. arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.14583.
URL:https://cefises.be/en/event/cefises-seminar-digital-feb-21/
LOCATION:Salle Ladrière\, Place du Cardinal Mercier 14 (bâtiment Socrate\, a.124)\, Louvain-la-Neuve\, 1348\, Belgium
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SUMMARY:CEFISES Seminar: Naomi Thompson\, "Social Metaphysical Explanation"
DESCRIPTION:Please note that this conference will be held online via Teams (not in person). The link to the Teams’ session will be communicated individually on demand. Please contact either of the co-organisers so that we can add you to the session. Otherwise\, you will be able to watch the livestream on YouTube without registration. \nSeries: Metametaphysics \nSpeaker: Naomi Thompson (University of Bristol) \nTitle: “Social Metaphysical Explanation” \nAbstract\nThis paper argues that grounding and metaphysical explanation as they are ordinarily conceived are ill-suited to modelling explanations in the social sciences\, and of the social world. Social facts are neither necessitated nor generated by their full grounds\, and there are good reasons to think of social metaphysical explanations as non-factive. Where grounding and metaphysical explanation are generally taken to form strict partial orders\, social metaphysical explanations are plausibly holistic. Social metaphysical explanation occurs in a context\, and it requires that in that context\, a social fact be represented as being determined on the basis of further facts\, and that concepts corresponding to social kinds featuring in the social fact to be explained are salient in that context.
URL:https://cefises.be/en/event/cefises-seminar-feb-28/
LOCATION:Online (Microsoft Teams)
ORGANIZER;CN="Florian Marion":MAILTO:florian.marion@uclouvain.be
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