Studied Sociology, psychology, and communication studies in Dresden, Leipzig and Berlin where he graduated in sociology in 2007. From 2007 and 2010 he worked at the Fraunhofer Institute of Innovation and Systems Research in Karlsruhe in different projects on innovation policy and the governance of emerging technologies. In 2010, he began working as a teaching coordinator, designing and implementing the MA Program "Science Studies" which has been successfully introduced at HU Berlin in 2012. At the same time, he was also involved in a project on the regulation of data practices in German universities. Between December 2013 and 2016 he worked as a research associate in the DFG funded project "Reviews as legitimizing resource in emerging research fields" focusing on the case of synthetic biology. He was also involved in a project on core concepts, organizational and evaluation of Translational Medical Research funded by the Berlin Institute of Health. His research interests include: science and technology studies, innovation studies, network analysis, governance of biomedicine (with a specific focus on synthetic biology), as well as studies into digital scholarly practices. Clemens Blümel joined the DZHW in January 2017.
Clemens Blümel
Research Area Research System and Science Dynamics
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List of publications
Ergebnisse der Trendumfrage Forschungsdateninfrastrukturen 2024.Hartstein, J., & Blümel, C. (2024).Ergebnisse der Trendumfrage Forschungsdateninfrastrukturen 2024. Hannover: Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14093010 |
Ideas Lab as funding instrument: navigating tensions in establishing transdisciplinary research projects.Kaisler, R., Blümel, C., & Palfinger, T. (2024).Ideas Lab as funding instrument: navigating tensions in establishing transdisciplinary research projects. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (online first). |
Ordering the past, envisioning future(s): how review articles in synthetic biology make use of heterogeneous expectations.Blümel, C. (2023).Ordering the past, envisioning future(s): how review articles in synthetic biology make use of heterogeneous expectations. Futures (online first). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2023.103302 Abstract
This article deals with expectation dynamics in the field of synthetic biology. The article draws on scholarly review articles as the main material, complemented by expert interviews conducted with scholars from the field. The aim is to explore how expectations change over time and how they are used to justify and move the field. Drawing from conceptual advances of the sociology of expectations, I show how expectations are increasingly linked at different levels (the landscape, sector, and niche level) and how they support and justify the field among different audiences. |
Quo Vadis Science Diplomacy – Wissenschaftsmobilität und -kooperation nach der Zeitenwende.Blümel, C., & Vögtle, E. M. (2023).Quo Vadis Science Diplomacy – Wissenschaftsmobilität und -kooperation nach der Zeitenwende. (DZHW Brief 05|2023). Hannover: DZHW. https://doi.org/10.34878/2023.05.dzhw_brief |
What happens to science when it communicates openly?Blümel, C., & Fecher, B. (31. Oktober 2023).What happens to science when it communicates openly [Blogbeitrag]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10037220 Abstract
The contribution deals with what happens when science opens up and communicates’ and the emerging challenges for future scientific communication. |
Wissenschaftskulturen in Deutschland.Ploder, M., Müller, R., & Blümel, C. (2023).Wissenschaftskulturen in Deutschland. Eine Studie im Auftrag der VolkswagenStiftung. Hannover: VolkswagenStiftung.
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On Top of the Hierarchy: How Guidelines Shape Systematic Reviewing in Biomedicine.Schniedermann, A., Blümel, C., & Simons, A. (2022).On Top of the Hierarchy: How Guidelines Shape Systematic Reviewing in Biomedicine. In S. Ehlers & S. Esselborn (Hrsg.), Evidence in Action between Science and Society - Constructing, Validating, and Contesting Knowledge (S. 102-126). New York: Routledge. |
MapOSR - A mapping review dataset of empirical studies on Open Science.Lasser, J., Schneider, J., Lösch, T., Röwert, R., Heck, T., ... & Skupien, S. (2022).MapOSR - A mapping review dataset of empirical studies on Open Science. F1000Research. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.121665.1 Abstract
Research that investigates respective researchers’ engagement in Open Science varies widely in the topics addressed, methods employed, and disciplines investigated, which makes it difficult to integrate and compare its results. To investigate current outcomes of Open Science research, and to get a better understanding on well-researched topics and research gaps, we aimed at providing an openly accessible overview of empirical studies that focus on different aspects of Open Science in different scientific disciplines, academic groups and geographical regions. In this paper, we describe a data set of studies about Open Science practices retrieved following a PRISMA approach to compile a literature review. |
Quantitative studies of science in Germany.Blümel, C., & Gauch, S. (2021).Quantitative studies of science in Germany. Scientometrics, 126(12) (online first). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-04203-7 |
Editors between support and control by the digital infrastructure — Tracing the peer review process with data from an editorial management system.Hartstein, J., & Blümel, C. (2021).Editors between support and control by the digital infrastructure — Tracing the peer review process with data from an editorial management system. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics (6). https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2021.747562/full (Abgerufen am: 20.10.2021) (online first). Abstract
Many journals now rely on editorial management systems, which are supposed to support the administration and decision making of editors, while aiming at making the process of communication faster and more transparent to both reviewers and authors. Yet, little is known about how these infrastructures support, stabilize, transform or change existing editorial practices. By exploring process generated data from a publisher’s editorial management system, we investigate the ways by which the digital infrastructure is used and how it represents the different realms of the process of peer review. How does the infrastructure support, strengthen or restrain editorial agency for administrating the process? |
Strukturwandel durch Innovation: Über die performative Verschränkung und Aneignung zweier Streitbegriffe in der Lausitz.Blümel, C. (2021).Strukturwandel durch Innovation: Über die performative Verschränkung und Aneignung zweier Streitbegriffe in der Lausitz. In J. Herberg, J. Staemmler, & P. Nanz (Hrsg.), Wissenschaft im Strukturwandel: Die paradoxe Praxis engagierter Transformationsforschung (S. 163-189). München: oekom. |
What Synthetic Biology Aims At: Review Articles as Sites for Constructing and Narrating an Emerging Field.Blümel, C. (2021).What Synthetic Biology Aims At: Review Articles as Sites for Constructing and Narrating an Emerging Field. In K. Kastenhofer & S. Molyneux-Hodgson (Hrsg.), Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences (S. 65-84). Cham: Springer Nature (online first). Abstract
The analysis of scientific communities and collectives are central to STS and the sociology of science. Reviewing practices, that is, practices of ordering, defining or delineating scientific fields can be understood as an often neglected, yet prevailing textual practice of community building, particularly in novel and emerging research fields, such as synthetic biology. In this article, I aim to explore the structure and content of review articles as a dedicated scholarly genre in synthetic biology, focusing on the period between 2002 and 2012. |
List of presentations & conferences
Researcher mobility and individual research agendas.Donner, P., & Blümel, C. (2024, September).Researcher mobility and individual research agendas. Vortrag auf der Konferenz 28th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators 2024 (STI), Berlin. Abstract
This study investigates whether researchers whose published research record is more thematically broad —covering more, and more semantically distant, topics— are also characterized by specific patterns in their mobility between research organizations and countries. We study a large sample of productive authors in STEM fields who have been active in Germany. Our results show that specific types of international mobility go together with slightly elevated epistemic breadth. Some disciplines, such as geosciences and astronomy, are comprised of researchers with low average epistemic breadth, while others, primarily computer science subfields, have many high-epistemic breadth researchers. |
Reflexive Bibliometrics on Open Research Information through Participatory Foresight.Gauch, S., Waltman, L., Stahlschmidt, S., Costas, R., Visser, M., ... & Neylon, C. (2024, September).Session Reflexive Bibliometrics on Open Research Information through Participatory Foresight auf der Konferenz 28th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI2024), Fraunhofer ISI, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DZHW, Berlin. |
Merton‘s thesis and global research cultures: Results from a global survey about research conditions.Blümel, C. (2024, März).Merton‘s thesis and global research cultures: Results from a global survey about research conditions. Vortrag auf der Tagung The System of Science and Democratic and Authoritarian Social Structures in the Twenty-First Century, Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. |
Wissenschaftliche Mobilität im Wandel: Digitalisierung und Geopolitik als Herausforderungen für die Gestaltung wissenschaftlicher Kooperationen.Blümel, C., Donner, P., & Schwichtenberg, N. (2024, Februar).Wissenschaftliche Mobilität im Wandel: Digitalisierung und Geopolitik als Herausforderungen für die Gestaltung wissenschaftlicher Kooperationen. Vortrag im Rahmen der DAAD Wissenschaftswerkstatt, DAAD, Bonn. |
Diversity of regional research cultures in the global science system.Blümel, C. (2023, Oktober).Moderation der Podiumsdiskussion Diversity of regional research cultures in the global science system auf der Konferenz The Future of Higher Education and Science - A Turn of the Times?, Deutsches Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung (DZHW), Berlin, Deutschland. |
Geopolitik und die Gestaltung von Kooperationen in Wissenschaft und Hochschule.Blümel, C. (2023, Oktober).Geopolitik und die Gestaltung von Kooperationen in Wissenschaft und Hochschule. Vortrag auf der Konferenz The Future of Higher Education and Science - A Turn of the Times?, Deutsches Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung (DZHW), Hannover, Deutschland. |
Review Articles: Functions, Uses and Reception Patterns in the Scholarly Publication System.Blümel, C. (2023, Juni).Review Articles: Functions, Uses and Reception Patterns in the Scholarly Publication System. Vortrag auf dem Seminar Sociology of Science, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland. |
Klausurtagung des DZHW-Forschungsclusters " Open Science " .
Workshop Klausurtagung des DZHW-Forschungsclusters "Open Science", DZHW, Berlin. |
The study of cognitive mobility and its interrelation with physical and virtual mobility.Blümel, C. (2022, November).The study of cognitive mobility and its interrelation with physical and virtual mobility. Impulsvortrag auf dem Workshop Cognitive Mobility in the Sciences: Social, Technological and Cultural Dynamics, Clemens Blümel und Michael Grüttner, DZHW. |
Grenzen und Chancen der Offenheit? Was Technologiesouveränität und Geopolitik für Innovation in Forschung und Technologie bedeuten.Blümel, C., Kessler, M. S., & Skupien, S. (2022).Symposium Grenzen und Chancen der Offenheit? Was Technologiesouveränität und Geopolitik für Innovation in Forschung und Technologie bedeuten im Rahmen der Veranstaltung Grenzen und Chancen der Offenheit, Stifterverband e.V., Deutsches Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung (DZHW), Berlin University Alliance, Center for Open and responsible Research (CORe), Berlin. |
