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Studies in the History of Natural Sciences  2020, Vol. 39 Issue (2): 241-261    DOI:
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An Analysis of the Agenda Information of the SHOT Annual Meetings: 2000-2019
HUANG Huang1, CHEN Wei2, LIU Jiasha3
1. Dept. of History, Anhui University, Hefei 230039, China;
2. Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
3. Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Abstract  This article makes ues of the agendas of the annual meetings from 2000-2019 of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) as the primary data source to collate the basic data of the conferences, rank the scholars, institutions and nations based on the times of the “key roles” they played in sessions, describe the social network of the participating scholars, institutions and nations using the methods of co-occurrence and cluster analysis, analyze the word frequency and time intervals of sessions and reports' titles, and finally quantify the participation of Chinses scholars and representative institutions in a comparative manner. The characteristics revealed by the results, including the progressive growth in the size of the conferences, the increasing interconnection between communities, changes over time in the participation of institutions, the hierarchical distribution of the participating nations, and the emphasis on modern and contemporary issues by participants, are described and interpreted. Instructive lessons for the future development of Chinese academic circle of history of technology are also investigated.

Key words： the Society for History of Technology (SHOT)      annual meetings      the USA      statistical analysis      internationalization     
Received: 17 January 2020      Published: 22 June 2021
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HUANG Huang, CHEN Wei, LIU Jiasha. An Analysis of the Agenda Information of the SHOT Annual Meetings: 2000-2019. Studies in the History of Natural Sciences, 2020, 39(2): 241-261.

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