Reforming Science: Investigating the Reflexivity & Reflectivity of (Non)Academic Actors Advocating for Science Reforms

Recently, communities emerged advocating for science reforms, often called Open Science. These communities are also known inter alia as Metascience or Science of Science. While these communities exert a noticeable influence on science and politics, little is known about them. Therefore, we propose a mixed-methods approach to examine three questions: 1) What are the argumentative strategies and justifications of proponents and critics when discussing science reforms? 2) What are the social and intellectual structures of communities associated with science reforms, and to what extent does their knowledge production align with research specialities or scientific social movements? 3) How are current science reforms different from previous fundamental science reforms? We investigate these reform communities in the context of scientific social movement theory and research specialities. Our approach combines quantitative bibliometric network analysis and a survey to map the social and intellectual structure of these communities with qualitative discourse analysis to capture their argumentative strategies and underlying value systems and a historical comparison to identify similarities and differences between past and current science reforms.