  Thomas Kuhn proposed his paradigmatic view of scientific discovery five
decades ago. The concept of paradigm has not only explained the progress of
science, but has also become the central epistemic concept among STM
scientists. Here, we adopt the principles of Kuhnian philosophy to construct a
novel ontology aims at classifying and evaluating the impact of STM scholarly
articles. First, we explain how the Kuhnian cycle of science describes research
at different epistemic stages. Second, we show how the Kuhnian cycle could be
reconstructed into modular ontologies which classify scholarly articles
according to their contribution to paradigm-centred knowledge. The proposed
ontology and its scenarios are discussed. To the best of the authors knowledge,
this is the first attempt for creating an ontology for describing scholarly
articles based on the Kuhnian paradigmatic view of science.
