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The study of the academy, science, scientific consensus, and the scientific community using Kremlinological methods—inferring the hidden politics of citation, funding, peer review, and career advancement. Academologists analyze which research gets funded, which papers are cited, which theories are labeled “fringe,” and which scientists are promoted. Like Sovietologists tracking the rise and fall of party officials, academologists track the rise and fall of research programs, noting that scientific revolutions often require the retirement (or death) of old gatekeepers. The field demystifies the image of science as pure reason, revealing it as a human institution with its own power struggles, orthodoxies, and excommunications.
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