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Metrics and Mechanisms: Measuring the Unmeasurable in the Science of Science
Lingfei Wu, Aniket Kittur, Hyejin Youn +4
What science does, what science could do, and how to make science work? If we want to know the answers to these questions, we need to be able to uncover the mechanisms of science,…
Network dynamics of innovation processes
Iacopo Iacopini, Staša Milojević, Vito Latora
We introduce a model for the emergence of innovations, in which cognitive processes are described as random walks on the network of links among ideas or concepts, and an innovation…
Principles of scientific research team formation and evolution
Staša Milojević
Research teams are the fundamental social unit of science, and yet there is currently no model that describes their basic property: size. In most fields teams have grown significan…
How are academic age, productivity and collaboration related to citing behavior of researchers?
Staša Milojević
References are an essential component of research articles and therefore of scientific communication. In this study we investigate referencing (citing) behavior in five diverse fie…
Social Dynamics of Science
Xiaoling Sun, Jasleen Kaur, Staša Milojević +2
The birth and decline of disciplines are critical to science and society. However, no quantitative model to date allows us to validate competing theories of whether the emergence o…
Multidisciplinary Cognitive Content of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Staša Milojević
This article examines the cognitive evolution and disciplinary diversity of nanotechnology as expressed through the terminology used in titles of nano journal articles. The analysi…