Research programme


Centre for Science and Technology Studies

Head of unit: Prof. Paul Wouters
Phone: +31 71 527 3909
Fax: +31 71 527 3911
Web address: http://www.socialsciences.leiden.edu/cwts/
Address: Wassenaarseweg 62A
Leiden

Description:
International research institute in the field of quantitative studies of science. Funded in 1984 by Prof van Raan in collaboration with Dr HF Moed.

  
Projects (2)
Publications (442)
Researchers (15)
Academic Careers Understood through Measurement and Norms
Period: 01/03/11 - 01/03/14
The ‘Neuro-turn’ in European Social Sciences and Humanities: Impacts of neurosciences on economics, marketing and philosophy
Period: 01/06/11 - 01/06/14
Social sciences and the humanities (SSH) are transformed by the rapid multiplication of new neuro-fields: neuroeconomics, neuromarketing, neurophilosophy. This neuroscientific turn in SSH has generated hope, hype and even a degree of fear among scientists and in the wider society. Yet, it is not ...