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 next horizon in precision oncology: Proteogenomics to inform cancer diagnosis and treatment

H Rodriguez, JC Zenklusen, LM Staudt, JH Doroshow… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
When it comes to precision oncology, proteogenomics may provide better prospects to the
clinical characterization of tumors, help make a more accurate diagnosis of cancer, and …

Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time

M Park, E Leahey, RJ Funk - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Theories of scientific and technological change view discovery and invention as
endogenous processes,, wherein previous accumulated knowledge enables future progress …

Gender-diverse teams produce more novel and higher-impact scientific ideas

Y Yang, TY Tian, TK Woodruff… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Science's changing demographics raise new questions about research team diversity and
research outcomes. We study mixed-gender research teams, examining 6.6 million papers …

Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science

JSG Chu, JA Evans - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
In many academic fields, the number of papers published each year has increased
significantly over time. Policy measures aim to increase the quantity of scientists, research …

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 …

A discipline-wide investigation of the replicability of Psychology papers over the past two decades

W Youyou, Y Yang, B Uzzi - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Conjecture about the weak replicability in social sciences has made scholars eager to
quantify the scale and scope of replication failure for a discipline. Yet small-scale manual …

Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology

L Wu, D Wang, JA Evans - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
One of the most universal trends in science and technology today is the growth of large
teams in all areas, as solitary researchers and small teams diminish in prevalence …

[LIBRO][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 …

Global citation inequality is on the rise

MW Nielsen, JP Andersen - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Citations are important building blocks for status and success in science. We used a linked
dataset of more than 4 million authors and 26 million scientific papers to quantify trends in …