Thomas Franssen
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. T.P. Franssen
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 3909
- t.p.franssen@cwts.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-4852-8862
Senior researcher. Thomas works on the intersection of valuation studies, sociology and STS. Previous research analyzed the constitutive effects of the rise of competitive project funding on the epistemic and organizational properties of research. His current interests are the history of scientometrics and valuation cultures in the humanities and its effects on knowledge production.
I'm a senior researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University and a coordinator of the Evaluation & Culture focal area. I have a background in the sociology of culture but migrated to science and technology studies and sociology of science after my PhD (University of Amsterdam, 2015).
My current work concerns the governance of science, specifically the epistemic effects of research evaluation and research funding. I am also exploring science in the Anthropocene, specifically sustainability in the laboratory life sciences through the introduction of LEAF and the 'Do No Significant Harm'-principle that was recently introduced in European Science POlicy.
I collaborate with colleagues at CWTS in different international projects such as R-Quest, led by Liv Langfeldt and Siri Borlaug, and Gender, Citizenship and Academic Power, with Agnete Vabø and Cathrine Egeland - both funded by the Research Council of Norway.
For pdfs of publications see www.thomasfranssen.net.
Assistant professor
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- CWTS
- Franssen T.P., Borlaug S.B. & Hylmö A. (2023), Steering the direction of research through organizational identity formation, Minerva 61: 495-519.
- Bernstein M.J., Franssen T.P., Smith R.D.J. & Wilde M. de (2022), The European Commission’s Green Deal is an opportunity to rethink harmful practices of research and innovation policy, Ambio 52: 508-517.
- Franssen T.P. (2022), Enriching research quality: a proposition for stakeholder heterogeneity, Research Evaluation 31(3): 311-320.
- Scholten W., Franssen T.P., Drooge L. van, Rijcke S. de & Hessels L.K. (2021), Funding for few, anticipation among all: effects of excellence funding on academic research groups, Science and Public Policy 48(2): 265-275.
- Franssen T.P. & Wilde M. de (2021), A clean energy future isn't set in stone, Nature Geoscience 14(9): 636-637.
- Franssen T.P. & Wilde M. de (2021), A clean energy future isn’t set in stone, Nature Geoscience 14: 636-637.
- Costas R., Mongeon P., Ferreira M.R., Honk J. van & Franssen T. (2020), Large-scale identification and characterization of scholars on Twitter, Quantitative Science Studies 1(2): 771–791.
- Hessels L.K., Franssen T., Scholten W. & De Rijcke S. (2019), Variation in Valuation: How Research Groups Accumulate Credibility in Four Epistemic Cultures, Minerva 57(2): 127-149.
- Franssen T.P. & De Rijcke S. (2019), The rise of project funding and its effects on the social structure of academia. In: Cannizzo F. & Osbaldiston N. (Eds.), The Social Structures of Global Academia: Routledge. 144-161.
- Franssen T. & Wouters P. (2019), Science and its significant other: representing the humanities in bibliometric scholarship, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 70(10): 1124-1137.
- Rushforth A.D., Franssen T.P. & Rijcke S. de (2019), Portfolios of Worth. Capitalizing on Basic and Clinical Problems in Biomedical Research Groups, Science, Technology, & Human Values 44(2): 209-236.
- Colavizza G., Franssen T. & Leeuwen T.N. van (2019), An empirical investigation of the Tribes and their Territories: are research specialisms rural and urban?, Journal of Informetrics 13(1): 105-117.
- Degn L., Franssen T.P., Sørensen M.P. & Rijcke S. de (2018), Research groups as communities of practice – a case study of four high-performing research groups, Higher Education 76(2): 231-246.
- Costas Comesana R. & Franssen T.P. (2018), Reflections around 'the cautionary use' of the h-index: response to Teixeira da Silva and Dobránszki, Scientometrics 115(2): 1125-1130.
- Franssen T., Scholten W., Hessels L.K. & De Rijcke S. (2018), The Drawbacks of Project Funding for Epistemic Innovation: Comparing Institutional Affordances and Constraints of Different Types of Research Funding, Minerva 56(1): 11-33.
- Wouters P., Reyes Elizondo A.E., Costas R., Franssen T. & Yegros A. (2018), Conference report: STI 2018 Leiden Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators in Transition: ISSI e-Newsletter (ISSI Society), 14(3): 51-54.
- De Rijcke S., Holtrop H., Kaltenbrunner W., Zuijderwijk J., Beaulieu A., Franssen T., Van Leeuwen T.N., Mongeon P., Tatum C.T., Valkenburg G. & Wouters P.F. (2018), Evaluative Inquiry: Engaging research evaluation analytically and strategically. Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities for a European Research Agenda – Valuation of SSH in mission-oriented research 28 November 2018 - 29 November 2018. Vienna: EU Council Conference on Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities for a European Research Agenda – Valuation of SSH in mission-oriented research.
- De Rijcke S., Wouters P.F., Rushforth A.D., Franssen T.P. & Hammarfelt B. (2016), Evaluation practices and effects of indicator use - A literature review, Research Evaluation 25(2): 161-169.
- De Wilde M. & Franssen T.P. (2016), The material practices of quantification: Measuring ‘deprivation’ in the Amsterdam Neighbourhood Policy, Critical Social Policy 36(4): 489-510.
- Hessels L., Scholten W., Franssen T.P. & De Rijcke S. (2016), Excellent Geld: De rol van excellentiesubsidies bij vier toponderzoeksgroepen in Nederland. Den Haag: Rathenau Instituut.