The culture of numbers: the origins and development of statistics on science - DOI:10.3395/reciis.v2i1.160en
Measuring science has become an ‘industry’. When, how and why did science come to be measured in the first place? How did a “cultural” activity – science – long reputed to be not amenable to statistics, come to be measured? The statistics owes its existence to the context of the time: 1) measuring t...
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Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde (Icict) da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz)
2008-10-01
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| Online Access: | http://www.reciis.cict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/160/142 |