Affiliation:
1. INRS Urbanisation, Culture et Société, 385 rue Sherbrooke Est, Montréal, Québec H2X 1E3 (Canada),
Abstract
Productivity is now a buzzword in science studies. Whether you consult the literature on research management, the economic literature on technology and innovation, the literature on bibliometrics or the official literature on science policy and its conceptual frameworks, what you find is analyses on productivity, often accompanied by a plea, and recipes, for increased productivity. This article documents how the concept of productivity got into the analysis of science, through the statistics on which the concept rested, and its transformation over one hundred years. It argues that, through history, the concept as applied to science has carried four meanings: productivity as reproduction, productivity as output, productivity as efficiency and productivity as outcome.
Subject
Library and Information Sciences,General Social Sciences
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