September 2010
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Berliner Journal für Soziologie
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September 2010
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955 Reads
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2,843 Citations
Berliner Journal für Soziologie
September 2010
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333 Reads
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48 Citations
Berliner Journal für Soziologie
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ly, the Social Sciences Citation Indexe (SSCIe), and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index@ (A& HCl@). He serves on the editorial advisory boards of all three of these services. Recent(y, in one of my essays in Current Contents@ (C@), 1 had occasion to reflect upon his rather special place in science. I have always had the kind of reaction to much of Merton's writing that I aasoeiate with a great novelist, not a great scientist. So much of what he says is so kautifuliy obvious-so transparently true-that one can't imagine why no one else has bothered to point it out. He is a special kind of scien(ist: forever reminding us of the forest, while describing it tree by tree.' Over the years, it has been my intuitive feeling that Robert Merton's influence extends well beyond the traditional boundaries of aoeiology. Further, it has also been my belief that the strength of his influence is derived primarily from his theoretical contributions. For the purpose of this paper 1 have decided to test these two subjective notions by conducting a citation analysis of Merton's work. The specific objectives of the study are ( 1) to define how far beyond the bounds of sociology Merton's influence extends and (2) to determine the extent to which this influence derives from his conceptual, or theoretical, work. MERTON'S INFLUENCE BEYOND SOCIOLOGY The data for the study were compiled from the Science Citation Index and Sociai Sciences Cifation Index for the period 1970-1977. The time period chosen was not entirely arbitrary. At the time we began the study, SSC1 data was available only for this period. If 1 began the study a few months later, I could have included data from 1966 because we have now processed social science material that far back. (n any case, we limited our use of SC1 data, which does go back to 1961, so we would have a common time frame for both data bases. The SCI and SSCI were searched to compile a bibliography of all papers published in the natural (SCf) and social (SSCl) sciences that cited work on which Merton was identified as first author. (A first-author search was considered adequate because Merton is the first or sole author on almost all of his publications. Self citations were excluded from the analysis. ) From the bibliography, we compiled the number of citing articles from each subject field or discipline. Thus, the data compiled reflects not the number of individual citations to Merton, but the number of articles citing Merton by authors other than himself. Fields were defined by the subject- classification assigned to journals in .SC12or SSC1.' For this study the "discipline" of the citing article was considered the same as that for the journal in which it was published. "Reprintedfrom:Gieryn T L, ed. Scienc# and social struc furs: a {esischrft for Robert K Merfon New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 19S0. p, 61-74,
... Consequently, diverse content selection helps attract more audience to the platform, strengthening the value-in-exchange of creators on the platform. Compared to the less-popular creators, more-popular creators who possess more resources (e.g., production skills, social capital) are more capable of capturing the benefits from the increase in audience (i.e., Matthew Effect) [52,54]. Therefore, spreading events may contribute to the popularity of the more-popular initiators. ...
September 2010
Berliner Journal für Soziologie
... Allenfalls hat sich der sogenannte Matthäus-Effekt (z. B. Zuckermann & Merton, 2010) gezeigt, der besagt, dass Kinder mit höheren Kompetenzen stärker von einer Förderung profitieren und anfangs bestehende Leistungsunterschiede somit nicht kleiner, sondern grösser werden. ...
September 2010
Berliner Journal für Soziologie