Blaise Cronin All Books The Hand of Science sku-27096994

Blaise Cronin's paperback The Hand of Science: Academic Writing and Its Rewards examines formal and informal collaboration in science and scholarship. It discusses how the Web and the shift from paper to electronic journals have changed scholarly communication and enabled research by scientists working across the globe. Cronin considers authorship in collective work, the allocation of credit and responsibility, citation and reputation, social relationships in intellectual work, and whether online and open access publishing can offer new measures of an author's influence and intellectual impact. Listed under All Books. SKU: sku-27096994.You may also like Cathedrals of Learning: Great and Ancient Universities of Western Europe (Paperback).