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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…
The Hidden Geometry of Global Aid: How Money Moves Through 10 Million Transactions
Paul X. McCarthy, Xian Gong, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu +1
International aid is usually described as flows between countries, hiding the organisations money passes through. We reconstruct global aid's organisational network from 10.9 milli…
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…
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…
The economics of global personality diversity
Paul X. McCarthy, Xian Gong, Marieth Coetzer +5
Understanding why national economic performance differs remains a central question in economics. Although institutions and demographic diversity are established correlates of econo…
Harmony in the Australian Domain Space
Xian Gong, Paul X. McCarthy, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu +1
In this paper we use for the first time a systematic approach in the study of harmonic centrality at a Web domain level, and gather a number of significant new findings about the A…
Informing Innovation Management: Linking Leading R&D Firms and Emerging Technologies
Xian Gong, Claire McFarland, Paul McCarthy +2
Understanding the relationship between emerging technology and research and development has long been of interest to companies, policy makers and researchers. In this paper new sou…
The Science of Startups: The Impact of Founder Personalities on Company Success
Paul X. McCarthy, Xian Gong, Fabian Stephany +3
Startup companies solve many of today's most complex and challenging scientific, technical and social problems, such as the decarbonisation of the economy, air pollution, and the d…
Evolution of diversity and dominance of companies in online activity
Paul X. McCarthy, Xian Gong, Sina Eghbal +2
Ever since the web began, the number of websites has been growing exponentially. These websites cover an ever-increasing range of online services that fill a variety of social and…