Little Science, Big Science
By Derek J. de Solla Price
Categories: Science & Math
Derek J. de Solla Price's founding work of scientometrics, first published in 1963. Price shows that the numbers of scientists, papers and journals had been doubling roughly every fifteen years, examines the 'invisible colleges' through which scientists communicate, and asks what the shift from individual 'little science' to large-scale 'big science' means for research.