Distinguishing gradual change from the emergence of genuinely new directions is a central challenge in tracking how research fields evolve. This preprint explores local versus global evolution of knowledge systems through the socio-epistemic networks (SEN) framework, pairing an information-theoretic …

Focusing on network analysis, co-citation networks, and topic modelling, this chapter introduces the socio-epistemic networks (SEN) framework for studying how historical knowledge systems form and change. Applied to two case studies — transnational scientific practices of Polish migrants and the …