ABSTRACT
Knowledge as a product of scientific discovery grows in the context of people, institutions, organizations, or societies which constitute the special interests of their members. Such a “scientific community” defines a set of rules and procedures to create, publish, discuss, revise, establish, and store information on the one hand, or to reject it on the other. Knowing about these rules can guide the information seeker through the vast amount of scientific information available. Therefore, the ergonomics knowledge generation process can be analyzed separately from the process of knowledge consolidation.
