The Pillars of Unity and Disciplinary Bridges: Geographical Research between Rhetorics and Practice

继续实施“统一之柱和学科之桥”项目的总体目的是，以地理学为例，从网络分析和文献计量学的角度，对关于科学和跨学科工作的统一的认识论辩论作出经验上的贡献。在扩展阶段，最重要的认知兴趣将仍然集中在对德语科学界地理学(子)学科内部结构的引文分析汇编和分析上。鉴于该项目以前只围绕目前的学科结构，忽视了结构过程的时间维度，下一阶段将制定一种动态的方法：因此，学科发展的时间动态和范式的演变将成为中心舞台。首先必须建立技术基础和必要的数据语料库，然后才能扩大研究视角。具体而言，推广阶段涉及开发和实施用于纵向监测科学传播的科学计量监测工具(“GEOCite”)。软件解决方案GEOcite寻求汇编、收集和处理大量的历史和最近的引用数据(从1949年到现在)。在这一过程中，将同时使用数字和模拟档案。将与哥廷根州立大学图书馆合作开展广泛的数字化工作。这项工作将成为自动提取引文数据的基础，将与DFG合作伙伴项目EXCITE(“从PDF文件中提取引文”，Gesis/科布伦茨-朗道大学)合作进行。其目的是创建和处理一个数据语料库，用于分析学科知识网络结构的当前结构及其历史成因。GEOcite将产生对文献计量网络分析的要求，这将提高我们对学科动态的理解。获得的数据将被免费获取，使其长期可用于科学和历史学科监测的实证研究。

The overall aim of the intended continuation of the project “The Pillars of Unity and Disciplinary Bridges” is to provide an empirical contribution to the epistemological debate about the unity of science and the practice of interdisciplinary work from a network analytical, bibliometric perspective, taking Geography as an example. During the extension phase, the overriding epistemic interest will still be focussed on the citation analytical compilation and analysis of (sub)disciplinary internal structures in Geography in the German-speaking scientific community. Whereas the project previously revolved merely around the current disciplinary structure, neglecting the temporal dimension of the structuring process, a dynamic approach will be developed in the next phase: the temporal dynamics of disciplinary development and the evolution of paradigms will therefore take center stage. The technical basis and the necessary data corpus must first be established before the research perspective can be expanded. In concrete terms, the extension phase involves the development and implementation of a scientometric monitoring tool for the longitudinal monitoring of scientific communication (“GEOcite”). The software solution GEOcite seeks to compile, collect and process extensive historical and recent citation data (from 1949 to the present). In the process, use will be made of both digital and analogue archives. Extensive digitization work will be conducted in cooperation with Göttingen State and University Library. This work will form the basis for the automated extraction of citation data, which will be undertaken in cooperation with the DFG partner project EXCITE (“Extraction of Citations from PDF Documents”, GESIS/University of Koblenz-Landau). The intention is to create and process a data corpus for analyzing current structures of disciplinary knowledge networks and their historical genesis. GEOcite will create the requirement for bibliometric network analysis, which will improve our understanding of disciplinary dynamics. The data gained will be made freely accessible, making it available long term for the empirical study of science and historical disciplinary monitoring.