Scientific community

Japanese: scientific community(英語表記)scientificcommunity
Scientific community

...In addition, throughout the 19th century, in response to the increasing specialization and sophistication of science, individual and specialized academic societies and associations were established in various fields.
[Functions of the scientific community]
Scientific research is carried out within a group made up of scientists, i.e., the scientific community. Therefore, the evaluation of whether a scientist's research results are of outstanding value, in other words, whether they are worthy of being called scientific discoveries, is made by the scientists who belong to the scientific community.

*Some explanations of terms that refer to "scientific community" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…また,19世紀を通じて,科学の専門分化と高度化に対応して,さまざまの分野で個別的・専門的な学会・協会が誕生した。
[科学者集団の機能]
 科学研究は科学者たちがつくり上げている集団,すなわち科学者集団scientific communityの中で遂行されている。したがって,ある科学者の研究成果が優れた価値をもったものであるかどうか,換言すれば科学的発見という名に値するものかどうかについての評価は,科学者集団に属する科学者たちによってなされる。…

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出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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