Epistemic cultures (often used in plural form) is a concept developed in the nineties by anthropologist Karin Knorr Cetina in her book Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge.
Knorr Cetina's work is seminal in questioning the so-called unity of science.
[citation needed] In practice, Knorr Cetina compares two contemporary important scientific fields:[1] High energy physics and molecular biology.
[2] Her anthropological work is comparative and the two chosen scientific fields are highly mediaticized and easily distinguishable.
Biagioli describes this difference in terms of publications culture regarding number of authors per paper, distribution of contributorship within authors, preprint policy and he precisely chooses to oppose the very same domains.