5 papers
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…
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…