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 …

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 …

Can Generative AI improve social science?

CA Bail - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Generative AI that can produce realistic text, images, and other human-like outputs is
currently transforming many different industries. Yet it is not yet known how such tools might …

The diversity–innovation paradox in science

B Hofstra, VV Kulkarni… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Prior work finds a diversity paradox: Diversity breeds innovation, yet underrepresented
groups that diversify organizations have less successful careers within them. Does the …

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 …

Topic modeling in management research: Rendering new theory from textual data

TR Hannigan, RFJ Haans, K Vakili… - Academy of …, 2019 - journals.aom.org
Increasingly, management researchers are using topic modeling, a new method borrowed
from computer science, to reveal phenomenon-based constructs and grounded conceptual …