Although novelty is implicitly ubiquitous in science, it has recently itself become a new object of research within the science of science. What lies behind the current emphasis on novelty in science? What counts as new, and who gets to decide? The Centre for Science, Technology, and Society Studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences invites prospective participants to submit abstracts for the international research symposium Novelty and Inequalities in Science, which will take place in Prague on 8–9 October 2026. Contributions may be submitted until 30 June 2026.
The symposium aims to provide a shared platform for reflecting on the recent attention devoted to novelty research and for discussing the relationship between novelty and inequalities in science. We welcome empirically grounded contributions using computational, network, quantitative, or qualitative methods in fields such as the science of science, research on research, scientometrics, and sociology of science.
Participants are invited to share both completed and work-in-progress research in the form of non-archival presentations and discussion.
Abstracts of 150–300 words may be submitted by 30 June 2026.
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