Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - RMZ

Nikita Sorgatz

Researcher

Current project

Wider societal value of research and consequences of its assessment: A multi-country and multi-method study (MultiSocVal)

  
Email nikita.sorgatz@hu-berlin.de  
     
Mailing address
 Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin		  
Office address
 Schönhauser Allee 10-11

   Abb.: Sarah Wiltschek

 

Vita

I have been interested in the impact economists have on society ever since I started my bachelor in economics at Freie Universität Berlin in the wake of the great financial crisis. I decided to study economists rather than to become one myself, so I began a masters in science studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. I wrote my masters thesis on the debate on gender differences in behavioral economics. Before joining the Robert Merton Center, I worked as a researcher in the bibliometrics unit of DZHW.

 

Research Interests

  • performativity of economics
  • political economy of science and technology
  • sociology of valuation and evaluation

 

Research Projects

2024-2028

 

Publications

2026
  • Stephen, D., Schniedermann, A., Lovakov, A., Schmidt, M., Ottaviani, M., Sorgatz, N., Cruz Romero, R., Möller, T., Aman, V., & Stahlschmidt, S. (2026). Implicit reporting standards in bibliometric research: What can reviewers’ comments tell us about reporting completeness? Quantitative Science Studies, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1162/QSS.a.496
2025
  • Aman, V., Herrmann-Lingen, C., Smitten, S. I. der, Sorgatz, N., & Traylor, C. (2025). Recognition and rewards for guideline work from the perspective of those involved. Zeitschrift für Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheitswesen, 196, 47–52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zefq.2025.04.004
2021

 

Presentations, Poster and Proceedings

2026
  • Sorgatz, N. (2026) The geopolitics of expertise: three decades of economics in parliamentary debates in Australia, Germany, Poland, South Africa and the UK European Consortium for Political Presentation, Research (ECPR) General Conference, Krakow, Poland. https://eshet-conference.net/joint-eshet-hes-nice/ed2026/papers/408/
  • Sorgatz, N. (2026) The geopolitics of expertise: three decades of economics in parliamentary debates in Australia, Germany, Poland, South Africa and the UK
    Presentation, Joint conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) and the History of Economics Society (HES), Nice, France. https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PaperDetails/87813
2025
  • Gauch, S., Williams, K., Sachse, J., Sorgatz, N., Boshoff, N., Basson, I., & Wróblewska, M. N. (2025). Ask not what you can do for Societal Impact – Ask what Societal Impact can do for You? A collective Sensemaking Exercise of Societal Impact “Success Stories” [Special Session].
    Presentation 29th Annual International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators (STI 2025), Bristol, UK. https://virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/74626/submission/7
  • Stephen, D., Schniedermann, A., Lovakov, A., Schmidt, M., Ottaviani, M., Sorgatz, N., Romero, R. C., Möller, T., Aman, V., & Stahlschmidt, S. (2025). Implicit Reporting Standards in Bibliometric Research: What Can Reviewers’ Comments Tell Us About Reporting Completeness?
    Proceeding, 20th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics, Yerevan, Armenia. doi.org/10.51408/issi2025_132 <http://doi.org/10.51408/issi2025_132> 
2024
  • Aman, V., & Sorgatz, N. (2024, September). Evidence base of Oncology Clinical Practice Guidelines – A bibliometric comparison of Germany and the UK.  
    Presentation, 28th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators 2024 (STI), Berlin, Germany. 10.5281/zenodo.14168202

  • Sorgatz, N. (2024, Juli). Designing Marktes, Designing Play: on the Creation and Management of Affective Markets.  
    Presentation, Making and Doing Transformations, the 2024 quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Athena Institute at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2023
  • Aman, V., & Sorgatz, N. (2023, September). Guideline Impact Factor – A new indicator to assess journals cited in medical guidelines.  
    Poster, 27th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI 2023), Leiden, The Netherlands. 10.55835/644169a0565e92f0541abf8d

 

Memberships

  • European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
  • Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)

 

Other

 

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