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  1. School of Education, Stanford University, 94305, Stanford, CA, USA

    Jason Owen-Smith

  2. School of History, University of New South Wales, 2052, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    John Gascoigne

  3. Philosophy Department, Flinders University, 5042, Bedford Park, SA, Australia

    Alan Chalmers

  4. Department of History & Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Audra J. Wolfe

  5. Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College, London, 24 Eversholt Street, NW1 1AD, London, UK

    Ivan Crozier

  6. Department of Philosophy, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Jan Crosthwaite

  7. Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Jonathan Simon

  8. School of Philosophy, University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Peter Anstey

  9. Neurobiology Department, University of Pittsburgh, BST 1640, 15261, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    William Clower

  10. School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 21205, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Mark Parascandola

  11. Department of Psychology, Clemson University, 29634, Clemson, SC, USA

    Robert L. Campbell

  12. Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Wilhelmstrasse 44, 10 117, Berlin, Germany

    Charlotte Bigg

  13. Department of Philosophy, University of Texas, 78712, Austin, TX, USA

    R. J. Hankinson

  14. School of Science and Technology Studies, University of New South Wales, 2052, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Nicolas Rasmussen, Nessy Allen & David Oldroyd

  15. Department of Historical Studies, Umeo University, 901 87, Umeo, Sweden

    Christer Nordlund

  16. Department of Liberal Studies, California State University, 92834, Fullerton, CA, USA

    Craig Sean McConnell

  17. Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 20604, Greensboro, NC, USA

    Edward Wisniewski

  18. Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University, 14853, Ithaca, NY, USA

    Jessie Saul

  19. Department of History of Science, Science Center 235, Harvard University, 02138, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Stephanie H. Kenen

  20. Department of Philosophy and Center for Bioethics c/o HUO 619, University of South Carolina, 29208, Columbia, SC, USA

    Ina Roy

  21. Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, 40506, Lexington, KY, USA

    Bradley Monton

  22. Department of French and Italian Studies, University of Washington, 98195, Seattle, WA, USA

    Dianah Leigh Jackson

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Owen-Smith, J., Gascoigne, J., Chalmers, A. et al. Reviews. Metascience 10, 232–319 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02914847

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