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 science of science

D Wang, L Liu - Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The rapid development of digital libraries and the proliferation of scholarly big data have
created an unprecedented opportunity to explore scientific production and reward at scale …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] How status of research papers affects the way they are read and cited

M Teplitskiy, E Duede, M Menietti, KR Lakhani - Research policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Although citations are widely used to measure the influence of scientific works, research
shows that many citations serve rhetorical functions and reflect little-to-no influence on the …

Early-career setback and future career impact

Y Wang, BF Jones, D Wang - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Setbacks are an integral part of a scientific career, yet little is known about their long-term
effects. Here we examine junior scientists applying for National Institutes of Health R01 …

New directions in science emerge from disconnection and discord

Y Lin, JA Evans, L Wu - Journal of Informetrics, 2022 - Elsevier
Science is built on scholarly consensus that shifts with time. This raises the question of how
new and revolutionary ideas are evaluated and become accepted into the canon of science …

Understanding the onset of hot streaks across artistic, cultural, and scientific careers

L Liu, N Dehmamy, J Chown, CL Giles… - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Across a range of creative domains, individual careers are characterized by hot streaks,
which are bursts of high-impact works clustered together in close succession. Yet it remains …

[图书][B] The quantified scholar: How research evaluations transformed the British social sciences

JP Pardo-Guerra - 2022 - degruyter.com
by aging papers, esoteric books, and the comparable comforts of the ivory tower—think
Indiana Jones, without the excitement, looks, career stability, or generous funding. Yet the …

Scientific elite revisited: Patterns of productivity, collaboration, authorship and impact

J Li, Y Yin, S Fortunato, D Wang - Journal of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Throughout history, a relatively small number of individuals have made a profound and
lasting impact on science and society. Despite long-standing, multi-disciplinary interests in …

Improving data access democratizes and diversifies science

A Nagaraj, E Shears… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The foundation of the scientific method rests on access to data, and yet such access is often
restricted or costly. We investigate how improved data access shifts the quantity, quality, and …