About the Author

Rickard Danell is associate professor of sociology at Umeå University in Sweden. He has published extensively within the fields of sociology of science and scholarly communication, and is currently conducting studies on how different types of sciences are affected by research policy programs.

Anna Larsson is associate professor of history of science and ideas at Umeå University. Her research interests include history of education and history of social science.

Per Wisselgren is associate professor of sociology at Umeå University. His main research interests revolve around the history and sociology of the social sciences in a broad sense, including issues related to gender, social welfare, research funding, extra-academic knowledge production, media and the public, and globalization.