Cudos may refer to: * Cudos, Gironde, a town in France * Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems or CUDOS, an Australian research consortium *

Mertonian norms In 1942, Robert K. Merton described four aspects of science that later came to be called Mertonian norms: "four sets of institutional imperatives taken to comprise the ethos of modern science... communism, universalism, disinterestedness, and organ ...

, principles of modern science in

Robert K. Merton Robert King Merton (born Meyer Robert Schkolnick; July 4, 1910 – February 23, 2003) was an American sociologist who is considered a founding father of modern sociology, and a major contributor to the subfield of criminology. He served as th ...

's 1973 work ''The Normative Structure of Science'' from which were later derived the 'CUDOS' principles (the definition varies between sources: these are either the original 4 rearranged to make a

mnemonic A mnemonic ( ) device, or memory device, is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval (remembering) in the human memory for better understanding. Mnemonics make use of elaborative encoding, retrieval cues, and imag ...

, or 5 with the addition of 'originality' and shortening of 'organized scepticism' to 'scepticism').

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