|Question=What is '''authority delegation'''? How should it be ''defined''?
|Topic Type=Definitional
|Description=It has long been recognized that division of epistemic labour is an essential feature of scientific communities. Biologists defer to physicists on matters of physics. Astronomers defer to sociologists on matters of sociology. The concept of authority delegation is an attempt to capture the nature of such relationships among scientific communities and subcommunities that hold authority over different elements of a scientific mosaic.