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A new approach to understanding the ever-changing information that bombards us. Arbesman is an expert in scientometrics, literally the science of science--how we know what we know. It turns out that knowledge in most fields evolves in systematic and predictable ways, and understanding that evolution can enormously powerful.
First publish date: 2012
Genre: Philosophy/Epistemology
Authors: Samuel Arbesman
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