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 …

Science of science

S Fortunato, CT Bergstrom, K Börner, JA Evans… - Science, 2018 - science.org
BACKGROUND The increasing availability of digital data on scholarly inputs and outputs—
from research funding, productivity, and collaboration to paper citations and scientist mobility …

Historical comparison of gender inequality in scientific careers across countries and disciplines

J Huang, AJ Gates, R Sinatra… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
There is extensive, yet fragmented, evidence of gender differences in academia suggesting
that women are underrepresented in most scientific disciplines and publish fewer articles …

[LIVRE][B] The science of science

D Wang, AL Barabási - 2021 - books.google.com
This is the first comprehensive overview of the'science of science,'an emerging
interdisciplinary field that relies on big data to unveil the reproducible patterns that govern …

[HTML][HTML] Science map**: a systematic review of the literature

C Chen - Journal of data and information science, 2017 - sciendo.com
Science map** is a generic process of domain analysis and visualization. The scope of a
science map** study can be a scientific discipline, a field of research, or topic areas …

Scale-free networks are rare

AD Broido, A Clauset - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Real-world networks are often claimed to be scale free, meaning that the fraction of nodes
with degree k follows a power law k− α, a pattern with broad implications for the structure …

Publishing and promotion in economics: The tyranny of the top five

JJ Heckman, S Moktan - Journal of Economic Literature, 2020 - aeaweb.org
This paper examines the relationship between placement of publications in top five (T5)
journals and receipt of tenure in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job …

[HTML][HTML] The h-index is no longer an effective correlate of scientific reputation

V Koltun, D Hafner - PLoS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The impact of individual scientists is commonly quantified using citation-based measures.
The most common such measure is the h-index. A scientist's h-index affects hiring …

Quantifying the evolution of individual scientific impact

R Sinatra, D Wang, P Deville, C Song, AL Barabási - Science, 2016 - science.org
INTRODUCTION In most areas of human performance, from sport to engineering, the path to
a major accomplishment requires a steep learning curve and long practice. Science is not …

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 …