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|Academic Events=Scientonomy Seminar 2015
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|Plural Lowercase=scientific communities
|Indefinite Article=a
|Question=What is '''scientific community'''? Can How should it be '''defined as more than simply “the bearer of a mosaic”'''?|Description=As soon as discussions about the laws of scientific change and the field of [[Scientonomy|scientonomy]] began, scientonomists scientonomers have consistently asked two questions; how to ''define'', and how to ''identify scientific communities. Although the term '''scientific community''' is constantly used by scientonomists, it currently lacks a scientonomic definitioncommunities. Among other things, a proper scientonomic definition of the term would could potentially help clarify the scope of scientonomy.|Authors List=Felix Walpole, Nicholas OvergaardHakob Barseghyan
|Formulated Year=2015
|Prehistory=Scientific communities have been defined and identified variously by historians, philosophers and sociologists of science. In what follows, three waves of interpretations of scientific communities will be presented. It should be emphasized that these waves are not indicative of all attempts at defining scientific communities.
