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Publish Late, Publish Rarely! : Network Density and Group Performance in Scientific Communication

In English

Författare

Redaktör

  • Thomas Boyer
  • Conor Mayo-Wilson
  • Michael Weisberg

Summary, in English

Research programs regularly compete to achieve the same goal, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA or the construction of a TEA laser. The more the competing programs share information, the faster the goal is likely to be reached, to society’s benefit. But the “priority rule”-the scientific norm according to which the first program to reach the goal in question must receive all the credit for the achievement-provides a powerful disincentive for programs to share information. How, then, is the clash between social and individual interest resolved in scientific practice? This chapter investigates what Robert Merton called science’s “communist” norm, which mandates universal sharing of knowledge, and uses mathematical models of discovery to argue that a communist regime may be on the whole advantageous and fair to all parties, and so might be implemented by a social contract that all scientists would be willing to sign.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2017

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

34-62

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Scientific Collaboration and Collective Knowledge

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

Oxford University Press

Ämne

  • Philosophy

Status

Published

Projekt

  • Collective Competence in Deliberative Groups: On the Epistemological Foundation of Democracy

Forskningsgrupp

  • Lund University Information Quality Research Group (LUIQ)

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 9780190680534