The role of handbooks in knowledge creation and diffusion: A case of science and technology studies

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Highlights：

• The paper is one of very few that explores more than one genre at the time: handbooks and journal articles.

• The use of full text of science and technology studies (STS) handbooks gives a detailed picture of their cognitive contents.

• We present an effective method to delineate journal articles belonging to the qualitative and quantitative STS.

• We discuss changes in STS research focus over the period of four decades, both in handbooks and in journal articles.

• We found that the role of handbooks in focusing the knowledge production as compared to journal articles in STS is limited.

摘要

•The paper is one of very few that explores more than one genre at the time: handbooks and journal articles.•The use of full text of science and technology studies (STS) handbooks gives a detailed picture of their cognitive contents.•We present an effective method to delineate journal articles belonging to the qualitative and quantitative STS.•We discuss changes in STS research focus over the period of four decades, both in handbooks and in journal articles.•We found that the role of handbooks in focusing the knowledge production as compared to journal articles in STS is limited.

论文关键词：Genres,STS,Handbooks

论文评审过程：Received 19 March 2014, Revised 4 June 2014, Accepted 5 June 2014, Available online 9 July 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2014.06.003