Delfanti Alessandro
Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada.
Soc Stud Sci. 2016 Aug;46(4):629-645. doi: 10.1177/0306312716659373. Epub 2016 Aug 20.
In high energy physics, scholarly papers circulate primarily through online preprint archives based on a centralized repository, arXiv, that physicists simply refer to as 'the archive'. The archive is not just a tool for preservation and memory but also a space of flows where written objects are detected and their authors made available for scrutiny. In this article, I analyze the reading and publishing practices of two subsets of high energy physicists: theorists and experimentalists. In order to be recognized as legitimate and productive members of their community, they need to abide by the temporalities and authorial practices structured by the archive. Theorists live in a state of accelerated time that shapes their reading and publishing practices around precise cycles. Experimentalists turn to tactics that allow them to circumvent the slowed-down time and invisibility they experience as members of large collaborations. As digital platforms for the exchange of scholarly articles emerge in other fields, high energy physics could help shed light on general transformations of contemporary scholarly communication systems.
在高能物理学领域，学术论文主要通过基于集中式存储库arXiv的在线预印本档案库传播，物理学家们简单地将其称为“档案库”。该档案库不仅是保存和记忆的工具，也是一个流动空间，在其中书面成果被发现，其作者也可供审查。在本文中，我分析了高能物理学家两个子集的阅读和发表实践：理论物理学家和实验物理学家。为了被认可为其学术共同体的合法且有成果的成员，他们需要遵循由档案库构建的时间性和作者实践。理论物理学家生活在加速时间的状态中，这围绕着精确的周期塑造了他们的阅读和发表实践。实验物理学家则采用策略，使他们能够规避作为大型合作团队成员所经历的时间放缓和默默无闻的状况。随着其他领域出现用于学术文章交流的数字平台，高能物理学有助于揭示当代学术交流系统的一般转变。
