Data, measurement and empirical methods in the science of science

L Liu, BF Jones, B Uzzi, D Wang - Nature human behaviour, 2023 - nature.com
The advent of large-scale datasets that trace the workings of science has encouraged
researchers from many different disciplinary backgrounds to turn scientific methods into …

The evolving role of preprints in the dissemination of COVID-19 research and their impact on the science communication landscape

N Fraser, L Brierley, G Dey, JK Polka, M Pálfy… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The world continues to face a life-threatening viral pandemic. The virus underlying the
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 …

Potentially long-lasting effects of the pandemic on scientists

J Gao, Y Yin, KR Myers, KR Lakhani, D Wang - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Two surveys of principal investigators conducted between April 2020 and January 2021
reveal that while the COVID-19 pandemic's initial impacts on scientists' research time seem …

What is the societal impact of university research? A policy-oriented review to map approaches, identify monitoring methods and success factors

NF Dotti, J Walczyk - Evaluation and program planning, 2022 - Elsevier
The discussion on the 'societal impact of university research'has emerged within the recent
decade with different utilisation from the British REF impact stories to the EU Framework …

SciSciNet: A large-scale open data lake for the science of science research

Z Lin, Y Yin, L Liu, D Wang - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
The science of science has attracted growing research interests, partly due to the increasing
availability of large-scale datasets capturing the innerworkings of science. These datasets …

Public use and public funding of science

Y Yin, Y Dong, K Wang, D Wang, BF Jones - Nature human behaviour, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Knowledge of how science is consumed in public domains is essential for
understanding the role of science in human society. Here we examine public use and public …

Preprinting the COVID-19 pandemic

N Fraser, L Brierley, G Dey, JK Polka, M Pálfy, F Nanni… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
The world continues to face an ongoing viral pandemic that presents a serious threat to
human health. The virus underlying the COVID-19 disease, SARS-CoV-2, has caused over …

Overton: A bibliometric database of policy document citations

M Szomszor, E Adie - Quantitative science studies, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
This paper presents an analysis of the Overton policy document database, describing the
makeup of materials indexed and the nature in which they cite academic literature. We …

Breaking out of the ivory tower: A large-scale analysis of patent citations to HCI research

H Cao, Y Lu, Y Deng, D Mcfarland… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
What is the impact of human-computer interaction research on industry? While it is
impossible to track all research impact pathways, the growing literature on translational …

Metrics and mechanisms: Measuring the unmeasurable in the science of science

L Wu, A Kittur, H Youn, S Milojević, E Leahey… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
What science does, what science could do, and how to make science work? If we want to
know the answers to these questions, we need to be able to uncover the mechanisms of …