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Title: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

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? Reigstad, B., Jorgensen, K. and Wichstrom, L. (2004), Changes in referrals to child and adolescent psychiatric services in Norway 1992-2001. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 39 (10), 818-827.

Full Text: 2004\Soc Psy Psy Epi39, 818.pdf

Abstract: Background The study analyzes changes in types of problems referred to child and adolescent psychiatry in Norway from 1992 to 2001, and investigates if referral practices and media attention account for these changes. Method All referrals to child and adolescent psychiatry in Norway in the period 1992-2001 were analyzed, as well as frequencies of articles in media on psychiatric problems. Results The shares of referrals for sadness/depression increased from 0.5 % to 15.4 %. Referrals for hyperactivity/attention problems increased from 1.2 % to 13.6 %. The increases could be statistically attributed to decreased use of other referral categories, and/or alternatively to media attention on these and related topics. Convergence between diagnosis and corresponding referral problem increased in the period. Conclusions Referrals for sadness/depression and hyperactivity/attention problems increased sharply in Norway during the 1990s. This increase may be attributed to a different understanding of and a sharper look at these problems by referral agencies and by increased media attention.

Keywords: Adolescent, Adolescent Psychiatry, Changes, Child, Diagnosis, Media, Norway, Practices, Psychiatry, Services, Understanding

Title: Social Science Information Sur les Sciences Sociales

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? Bontems, V. and Gingras, Y. (2007), From normal science to marginal science. Analysis of scientific trajectory bifurcation: The case of theory of scale relativity. Social Science Information Sur les Sciences Sociales, 46 (4), 607-653.

Full Text: 2009\Soc Sci Inf Sci Soc46, 607.pdf

Abstract: In the scientific field, agents can choose to contribute to ‘normal’ science, operate within the most highly legitimated avant-garde science (‘superstrings’, dark matter, etc.) or instead, develop theories within an entirely new theoretical framework, despite the risks which this entails. But the marginality of such theories raises a problem of strategy: those who choose to work on them do so at the expense of their own short-term interests, which would normally be oriented towards occupying a central position in already well-established fields. The theory of scale-relativity (TSR) demonstrates the interest of such a situation: the door is open to new possibilities, but ones that must be built ‘from scratch’. To pursue work in this direction is more demanding than to choose a project considered risky (due to its inherent difficulty) within the confines of an existing paradigm. On the one hand, TSR proposes to ‘innovate’ and branch out from already widely-accepted conceptual bases, while, on the other hand, it finds itself in a marginal position with respect to the most legitimate avant-garde theories, such as ‘superstrings’. The case of the TSR thus allows us to study a region of the scientific field which has hardly been explored by a sociology of science that focuses primarily on ‘extreme’ cases: histories of theories which have since been vindicated or spectacular controversies. In 2006, TSR occupies a marginal position within the field of physics. Its status differs widely from ‘theories’ produced outside the field, yet does not correspond to any form of stable, accepted science. As we will show, using a detailed bibliometric analysis, the theory’s diffusion throughout the scientific field has been limited - albeit real and its results, when sanctioned by an official publication, are rarely taken into account by researchers who are not already TSR collaborators. This isolation within the field reveals conflict and tension between the transformation intended by a theoretical innovation and the norms of standard peer review. As a conclusion, we will compare the strategies of TSR’s founder with those of other researchers who - at some point in their career - have attempted to reorient their scientific trajectory, which in turn reveals the social conditions of these bifurcations that put previously accumulated scientific capital at risk.

Keywords: 7 Sexes, Analysis, Bibliometric, Bibliometric Analysis, Bifurcation, Clusters, Diffusion, Field, Fine-Structure Constant, Fractal Space-Time, Galaxies, Gravitational Lenses, Innovation, Laurent Nottale, Marginal Science, Peer Review, Peer-Review, Physics, Publication, Quantization, Quantum-Mechanics, Researchers, Scale Relativity, Science, Scientific Controversy, Scientific Field, Sociology of Science, Superstrings, Theory

? Godin, B. (2009), The value of science: Changing conceptions of scientific productivity, 1869 to circa 1970. Social Science Information Sur les Sciences Sociales, 48 (4), 547-586.

Full Text: 2009\Soc Sci Inf Sci Soc48, 547.pdf

Abstract: Productivity is now a buzzword in science studies. Whether you consult the literature on research management, the economic literature on technology and innovation, the literature on bibliometrics or the official literature on science policy and its conceptual frameworks, what you find is analyses on productivity, often accompanied by a plea, and recipes, for increased productivity. This article documents how the concept of productivity got into the analysis of science, through the statistics on which the concept rested, and its transformation over one hundred years. It argues that, through history, the concept as applied to science has carried four meanings: productivity as reproduction, productivity as output, productivity as efficiency and productivity as outcome.

Keywords: Age, American-Psychological-Association, Bibliometrics, Economic-Growth, Economics of Science, History of Science, Men, Organization, Performance, Rates, Research, Return, Scientific Productivity, Statistics, United-States, Vital-Statistics