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

“统一和学科桥梁的支柱”项目的预期延续的总体目标是从网络分析和文献计量学的角度，以地理学为例，为关于科学统一和跨学科工作实践的认识论辩论提供经验贡献。在扩展阶段，最重要的认知兴趣仍将集中在德语科学社区地理学（子）学科内部结构的引文分析、汇编和分析上。鉴于该项目之前仅仅围绕当前的学科结构，而忽略了结构过程的时间维度，下一阶段将开发一种动态方法：学科发展的时间动态和范式的演变将因此占据中心位置。在扩展研究视角之前，必须先建立技术基础和必要的数据语料库。具体而言，扩展阶段涉及开发和实施一种科学计量监测工具，用于科学传播的纵向监测（“GEOcite”）。GEOcite软件解决方案旨在汇编、收集和处理广泛的历史和最近的引文数据（从1949年到现在）。在此过程中，将同时使用数字和模拟档案。将与Göttingen国家和大学图书馆合作开展广泛的数字化工作。这项工作将构成引文数据自动提取的基础，这将与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。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的当前结构及其历史起源。GEOcite将创造对文献计量网络分析的需求，这将提高我们对学科动态的理解。所获得的数据将免费提供，使其能够长期用于科学实证研究和历史学科监测。

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.