Abstract

PINA-STRANGER, Álvaro; SABAJ MERUANE, Omar; TORO TENGROVE, Paulina  and  MATSUDA OTEIZA, Ken. Academic Strategies for Scientific Insertion: A Methodological Proposal to Study Epistemic Claims Found in Research Articles. Innovar [online]. 2013, vol.23, n.48, pp.67-82. ISSN 0121-5051.

Epistemic claims are actions in which the actors apply their knowledge socially. In the academic world, epistemic claims are associated with specific contents that an author makes when writing a research article. While there are diverse methods for analyzing the collective construction of knowledge, there are no specific proposals to describe how these claims are socially inserted in the scientific community. In this context, the article presents an interdisciplinary method for studying how authors of scientific articles use their epistemic claims in order to insert themselves into a scientific community. We propose a typology of epistemic claims in which, based on the type of content they promote, we distinguish the theoretical and performance claims. The results show that the type of epistemic claim is associated with the citation strategy. The method that we propose contributes to the study of collective construction of knowledge, in that it makes it possible to differentiate the academic strategies used by authors and the type of knowledge claimed.

Keywords : epistemic claim; citation network; rhetorical movements; scientific insertion strategies; scientific articles.

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