scientocracy

English

From sciento- +‎ -cracy; first known use in 1887.

scientocracy (countable and uncountable, plural scientocracies)

An elite community of scientists.
- 1887, Florence Caddy, Through the fields with Linnaeus: a chapter in Swedish history, volume 1, page 294:
  His lesson in Hamburg had taught him that a novus homo must not be arrogant when he enters the society of the scientocracy, and that he must not run himself rashly against vested interests.
- 1968, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Center occasional papers, volume 3, number 3, page 75:
  It could only appear through some dictatorial coup d'etat by a future scientocracy.
- 2000, Charles Edgley with Dennis Brissett, A Nation of Meddlers, page 43:
  the roots of which lie in the curious marriage of the prohibitionist spirit and the new scientocracies that govern our lives.
(governance) The practice of basing public policies on science.
- 2009, Peter Ubel, Scientocracy: Policy making that reflects human nature.:
  When I talk about Scientocracy, then, I'm not talking about a world ruled by behavioral scientists, or any other kind of scientists. Instead, I am imagining a government of the people, but informed by scientists.

members of an elite community of scientists