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Scientific communities is a category focused on books that explore how science actually happens as a collective human endeavor—the people, institutions, norms, and networks that produce and govern knowledge. Titles here span sociology, history, and ethnography of science; insider memoirs and reportage from labs; and analyses of peer review, journals, conferences, funding systems, and research policy. They examine collaboration and competition, credit and reputation, disciplines and interdisciplinarity, paradigm shifts and controversies, as well as ethics, diversity and inclusion, open science, and public engagement (from media to citizen science). Readers will find case studies of specific fields and laboratories alongside broader portraits of the global research ecosystem, offering insight into how consensus forms, why disputes arise, and how culture and incentives shape discovery.

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