6 papers
Shifting Social Dispositions, Stable Prosocial Traits: A Global Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Human Personality
Paul X. McCarthy, Xian Gong, John A. Johnson +3
Generational stereotypes are widespread, but they often rely on anecdotes, and it remains challenging to disentangle true birth-cohort differences from the universal effects of age…
Translation Readiness Index: Measuring the Semantic Proximity of Research to Patented Science
Paul X. McCarthy, Rasika Amarasiri, Xian Gong
Universities, funders, and investors often need to spot research with translational potential early, long before downstream outcomes like licenses, startups, or patents emerge. We…
Who Connects Global Aid? The Hidden Geometry of 10 Million Transactions
Paul X. McCarthy, Xian Gong, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu +1
The global aid system functions as a complex and evolving ecosystem; yet widespread understanding of its structure remains largely limited to aggregate volume flows. Here we map th…
The economics of global personality diversity
Paul X. McCarthy, Xian Gong, Marieth Coetzer +5
This study explores the relationship between personality diversity and national economic performance, introducing the Global Personality Diversity Index (-GPDI) as a novel metr…
Cosmos 1.0: a multidimensional map of the emerging technology frontier
Xian Gong, Paul X. McCarthy, Colin Griffith +2
This paper introduces the Cosmos 1.0 dataset and describes a novel methodology for creating and mapping a universe of technologies, adjacent concepts, and entities. We utilise vari…
Signals from the Floods: AI-Driven Disaster Analysis through Multi-Source Data Fusion
Xian Gong, Paul X. McCarthy, Lin Tian +1
Massive and diverse web data are increasingly vital for government disaster response, as demonstrated by the 2022 floods in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. This study examines ho…