Epistemological demarcations of citation studies: sociocultural conception of citation

ABSTRACT

It is the third part of the epistemological demarcations that configure the citation studies in the contemporaneity. It is based on the assumption that social and cultural contexts are vital in the development of citation studies, since they formalize the relationship between production and citation practices. It aims to propose the initial epistemological design for a sociocultural conception of the citations, with emphasis on the revelation of the influences of the multiple contexts in the processes of production and citation of the scientists. It presents and discusses the scientific components for the sociocultural conception of citations, complementary in nature to the theories of citations. It suggests an epistemological matrix for citation studies and also a multidimensional analytical model for future investigations. It concludes that the sociocultural conception can be applied methodologically, in a complementary way, in researches that problematize the established relationship between production and citation.

Keywords:
Citation Studies; Epistemology; Theories of Citation; Sociocultural Conception of Citation