From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories
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JULY 24, 2008
Kuhn (1963) showed how scientific peer groups determine what theories will be accepted as well as make more mundane judgments about what papers will be published and what grants will be funded. Crane (1972) first described the loosely-affiliated but highly interactive networks of scientists as "invisible colleges."
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