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  1. School of Science and Technology Studies, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Ivan Crozier

  2. Darwin College, Cambridge, UK

    Patricia Fara

  3. Department of Philosophy, Leeds University, Leeds, UK

    Jon Hodge

  4. Centre for Complex Systems, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., USA

    Brendan Kitts

  5. The Graduate College, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

    Robin Knight

  6. Faculty of Science and Technology, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Sverre Myhra

  7. School of Science and Technology Studies, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    David Oldroyd

  8. Centre for Women’s Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    Elizabeth A. Wilson

  9. Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

    Rosemary Robins

  10. Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

    Stephen Dovers

  11. Faculty of Science and Technology, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    John Forge

  12. School of Science and Technology Studies, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Harshi Gunawardena

  13. Faculty of Humanities, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Jenny Tannoch-Bland

  14. Department of Science & Technology Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Loet Leydesdorff

  15. School of Science and Technology Studies, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    David Oldroyd, David Oldroyd & David Oldroyd

  16. Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Nicolas Rasmussen

  17. Automated Reasoning Project, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

    Greg Restall

  18. Harold F. Johnson Library, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

    Helaine Selin

  19. Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Michael Shortland

  20. Philosophy Department, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia

    E. E. Sleinis

  21. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

    Fiona Solomon

  22. School of Social Inquiry, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

    Scott McQuire

  23. School of History, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, UK

    Maurice Crosland

  24. Centre for Natural Resources Law, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

    David Farrier

  25. Faculty of Science and Technology, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia

    John Forge & Sverre Myhra

  26. School of English, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Roslynn Haynes

  27. The Open University, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK

    Colin Russell

  28. Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, University of London, London, UK

    Libby Robin

  29. School of Science and Technology Studies, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Karin Garrety

  30. School of Philosophy, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Stephen Gaukroger

  31. Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Melbourne University, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

    Stephen Ames

  32. Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

    Wendy Varney

  33. Department of Philosophy, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

    Vojislav Bozickovic

  34. Department of Philosophy, The University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

    Phil Dowe

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Crozier, I., Fara, P., Hodge, J. et al. Reviews. Metascience 5, 71–192 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02988889

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