Generic instruments in a synchrotron radiation facility

Söderström, Kristofer Rolf; Åström, Fredrik; Hallonsten, Olof

doi:10.1162/qss_a_00190

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“…The results show a facility with a global reach, but with high affiliation agglomeration in Western Europe, seemingly in line with some of their goals as a facility (Cramer, 2017; ESRFI, 2018; Hallonsten, 2016) but showing opportunities of exploring emerging regions for future collaboration. Individual beamlines or instruments like BM14 are likely to have their own geographical profiles which may be worth exploring further, as previous research from the perspective of instruments in the ESRF have found significant differences between beamlines or instruments in terms of their multidisciplinary level (Söderström et al, 2022) and the collaboration networks they create (Söderström, 2023). The results in this case study suggest that the reach of the individual instruments is global, likely due to the ESRF being a global leader in synchrotron radiation.…”

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“…The ESRF is one of the biggest, longest running and most prominent synchrotron radiation facilities in the world (Cramer, 2017; Hallonsten, 2016), where scientists use the scientific instrumentation hosted in these facilities. This instrumentation is highly specialized, but also generic in the sense that it can be used by scientists and researchers from a wide variety of disciplines (Söderström et al, 2022).…”

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“…The users of these instruments encompass diverse scientific disciplines and practices. These include both internal scientists employed at the facility and external scientists conducting experiments for their own research purposes (Silva et al, 2019; Söderström, 2023; Söderström et al, 2022).…”

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The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), a leading facility in synchrotron science, plays a crucial role in supporting both the local and the international scientific community by providing advanced instrumentation for their research. However, our understanding of the actual reach of the facility and its spatial dynamics remains limited. Thus, a methodology is proposed where author affiliation links are processed, analyzed, and visualized. A case study that focuses on the ESRF is implemented, where the author affiliation links of 17,870 publications over the period 2011-2021 are processed, revealing 76,850 addresses, of which 11,120 are unique locations.The results of the case study bring to light robust patterns of increased internationalization over time, accompanied by regional agglomeration and the emergence of potential research hotspots. The methodology and results are likely to be of interest to researchers in Spatial Scientometrics, which addresses some of the current challenges in the field. Managers, funders, and policy-makers can utilize this method or similar approaches to enrich impact analyses of large-scale science facilities, vital for insuring their sustained support. The code for the methodology, as well as the interactive visualizations, is freely available on GitHub for further exploration and replication of the methodology.

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Die Europäische Synchrotronstrahlungsquelle (ESRF): Organisatorische Erneuerungsfähigkeit am Beispiel der Strukturbiologie

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ZusammenfassungDas folgende Kapitel widmet sich der Entwicklung strukturbiologischer Forschung an der ESRF in den 1990er und 2000er Jahren als Beispiel organisatorischer Erneuerungsfähigkeit. Konkret lässt sich organisatorische Erneuerungsfähigkeit an der ESRF anhand der Spezialisierung der Gutachter:innenausschüsse, der Implementierung neuer Prozesse zur Verteilung von Strahlzeit im Bereich strukturbiologischer Forschung (block allocation), der Realisierung eines neuen Strahllinienkomplexes (ID23) sowie an strategischen Kooperationen (strukturbiologische Partnerschaft) beobachten. Dieses Kapitel versteht sich in erster Linie als beschreibender und empirischer Beitrag. Es soll zum tiefergehenden Verständnis des Verhältnisses von Organisationsform und Erkenntnisinteresse an wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen beitragen und zeigt am Beispiel der ESRF, dass der Wandel von Methoden und Instrumenten hier in einem engen Verhältnis zu dem Aufkommen neuer Forschungsgebiete und thematischer Priorisierungen steht.

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The structure and dynamics of instrument collaboration networks

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Complex scientific questions often require collaboration between scientists to access scientific instruments (deS. Price, Res Policy 13:3–20, 1984; Shrum et al. 2007, Structures of scientific collaboration, The MIT Press, 2007), knowledge and social capital from scientists outside of their immediate networks (Burt, Am J Sociol 110:349–399, 2004; Collins, Tacit and explicit knowledge, University of Chicago Press, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo8461024.html, 2012; Granovetter, Am J Sociol 78:1360–1380, 1973; Polanyi, Personal knowledge: towards a post-critical philosophy (Repr. (with corr.)). Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962). Synchrotron radiation facilities are a unique case to explore this type of collaboration, as external scientists going to the facility to do their ordinary research work are common. These external users use complex scientific instrumentation that could require the additional accumulated knowledge of internal scientists and staff more familiar with the technical and social aspects of the instruments. These collaborations sometimes result in a co-authored publication with internal staff, employed in these facilities. However, this is not always the case. Data from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) shows that most often, external scientists do not include internal staff in the co-author fields of the subsequent publication from scientific work done in one (or more) instruments in these facilities. Instrument collaboration networks are constructed and analysed over the period 2000–2018 for the different scientific instruments within the facility. A strong relationship between the level of external collaboration and the structure of the networks is found and explored. The results provide further insight into factors that shape collaboration and knowledge transfer, also relevant to policy makers and facility managers seeking to promote these activities.

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Generic instruments in a synchrotron radiation facility

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Global reach, regional strength: Spatial patterns of a big science facility

Global reach, regional strength: Spatial patterns of a big science facility

Die Europäische Synchrotronstrahlungsquelle (ESRF): Organisatorische Erneuerungsfähigkeit am Beispiel der Strukturbiologie

The structure and dynamics of instrument collaboration networks

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