Sociología de la Ciencia y Cienciometría: Una revisión de las teorías subyacentes

Abstract

This article presents a review of main sociological theories that underlie to scientometric articles that aim to present study cases. This review presents three fundamental models categorized as: Functionalists Scientometric Models, Translation Scientometric Models and Systemic Scientometric Models. Theoretical and methodological principles are explained. At the end a contrasts is made.

Keywords

• sociología de la ciencia
• cienciometría
• modelos teórico–metodológicos
• comunicación científica