Alexander Schniedermann is a research associate at the department "Research System and Science Dynamics". His current research accompanies the emergence of basic services for the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) in Germany. It focuses on the epistemic and social impacts of practices and actors that emerge from new professions, such as research data management and research software engineering. Alexander's work usually combines scientometric and webometric analyses with qualitative interviews and document analyses.
In 2026, he obtained his doctoral degree (CWTS, Leiden University) for his research about guidelines for the reporting of evidence syntheses in biomedical research. Before his doctoral research, Alexander studied "History, Philosophy, and Economics of Science" at Bielefeld University, where he received a master's degree with a thesis about data reuse in science. Besides his research, he serves as an Ombudsgroup member for the German STS association stsing e.V. and engages in the Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie.
Dr. Alexander Schniedermann
Research Area Research System and Science Dynamics
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Academic research fields
Scholarly communication, standardization in science, epistemology, scientific communities, research infrastructures
Projects
List of projects
Publications
List of publications
Studying review articles in scientometrics and beyond: a research agenda.Blümel, C., & Schniedermann, A. (2020).Studying review articles in scientometrics and beyond: a research agenda. Scientometrics, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03431-7 |
Presentations
List of presentations & conferences
Standards, Stages and Sideshows in Biomedicine.Schniedermann, A. (2024, März).Standards, Stages and Sideshows in Biomedicine. Vortrag auf der Konferenz Leakage. Inaugural Conference of stsing e.V., Sandra Buchmüller, Michaela Büsse, Kristiane Fehrs, Moritz Ingwersen, Anja H. Lind, Johanna Mehl, Judith Miggelbrink, Michelle Pfeifer, Susann Wagenknecht, Technische Universität, Dresden. |
Who writes what? The academic age paterns of review genres in biomedicine.Schniedermann, A. (2023, September).Who writes what? The academic age paterns of review genres in biomedicine. Vortrag auf der Konferenz 27th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI 2023), Leiden, Netherlands. doi.org/10.55835/6441b6d076bb0bb2c9ff4c15 |
Systematic reviews and the standardization of biomedical knowledge, or - what can we do with document types?Schniedermann, A. (2023, März).Systematic reviews and the standardization of biomedical knowledge, or - what can we do with document types? Vortrag auf dem Symposium "Netzwerktreffen des Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie", Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie, SUB Göttingen. |
Standardization in Science. With Reporting Gidelines towards Transparency and Open Science in Biomedicine.Schniedermann, A. (2022, Juli).Standardization in Science. With Reporting Gidelines towards Transparency and Open Science in Biomedicine. Vortrag im Rahmen der Interdisciplinary International Graduate Summer School “Open science”: ambivalences and tensions ‐ New borderlands between science, technology and society., University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, San Sebastian, Spain. |
Licht am Ende des Tunnels? Mit Transparenzzstandards in Richtung Open Science.Schniedermann, A. (2022, Juli).Licht am Ende des Tunnels? Mit Transparenzzstandards in Richtung Open Science. In U. Dirnagl & A. Scheel (Vorsitz), Meta-Research. auf dem Symposium Wissenschaftsforschung im Fokus - Potentiale und neue Perspektiven, VolkswagenStiftung, Hannover. |
Preprints in der deutschen Presse als Ausdruck einer neuen Verwissenschaftlichung der Medien? Eine Mixed-Method Analyse von 400.000 Zeitungsartikeln vor und während der Pandemie.Schniedermann, A., & Simons, A. (2022, Juni).Preprints in der deutschen Presse als Ausdruck einer neuen Verwissenschaftlichung der Medien? Eine Mixed-Method Analyse von 400.000 Zeitungsartikeln vor und während der Pandemie. Vortrag auf der Tagung Offene Tagung der Sektion Politische Soziologie, Leopold Ringel, Alejandro Esguerra & Holger Straßheim, Universität Bielefeld. |
Evidenz-basierte Politik als politisches Programm. Eine kritische Netzwerkanalyse.Simons, A., & Schniedermann, A. (2022, Juni).Evidenz-basierte Politik als politisches Programm. Eine kritische Netzwerkanalyse. Vortrag auf der Tagung Offene Tagung der Sektion Politische Soziologie, Alejandro Esguerra, Leopold Ringel & Holger Straßheim, Universität Bielefeld. |
Standardization in Science. Effects and issues of Guidelines for Biomedical Reporting.Schniedermann, A. (2022, März).Standardization in Science. Effects and issues of Guidelines for Biomedical Reporting. Vortrag auf dem Kolloquium der Forschungsgruppe Science and Evaluation Studies (SES), Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS). |
The “scientification” of media reporting as an antidote to anti-science sentiments? A citation context analysis of references to scientific publications in the German Press before and during the pandemic.Simons, A., & Schniedermann, A. (2022, März).The “scientification” of media reporting as an antidote to anti-science sentiments? A citation context analysis of references to scientific publications in the German Press before and during the pandemic. Vortrag auf der Tagung Politik, Wissenschaft und Technik im Spiegel von Krisen, DVPW Arbeitskreis Politik Wissenschaft und Technik. |
Function, Reception and Performativity of Review Literature in Science, in the Context of the Bibliometrics-driven Incentive Structure.Schniedermann, A. (2020, Juli).Function, Reception and Performativity of Review Literature in Science, in the Context of the Bibliometrics-driven Incentive Structure. Vortrag auf dem I²SoS-Colloquium Summer Semester 2020, Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Science (I²SoS), Bielefeld University, 14.07.2020, Bielefeld . |
Curriculum Vitae
Since 10/2018
Research Associate at the German Center for Higher Education and Science Research, Department 2: Research System and Science Dynamics
05/2021 - 06/2026
Dissertation about "Standardization in science. Effects and Issues of Guidelines for Biomedical Reporting" (CWTS, Leiden University)
03/2017 - 10/2018
Research Assistant in the area of research evaluation and third-mission activities (Bavarian State Institute for Higher Education Research and Planning, Munich)
10/2016 - 01/2017
Semester abroad with a focus on the history of science (University of Zurich)
10/2015 - 01/2019
Master's program in "History, Economics, and Philosophy of Science" (ISoS, University of Bielefeld)
