Science under observation. Benefits, limits and paradoxes of the evaluation of scientific activity
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Science has become increasingly a public affair, which undoubtedly requires monitoring of its quality. This article examines the benefits of the evaluation of science, but draws attention to some of its limits and paradoxes, such as the difficulty these procedures have to record the truly new, or its side effects, and the fact that they usually do not respect the specificity of humanities and social sciences.
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