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Scientific productivity as a random walk
Sam Zhang, Nicholas LaBerge, Samuel F. Way +2
The expectation that scientific productivity follows regular patterns over a career underpins many scholarly evaluations. However, recent studies of individual productivity pattern…
Environmental Changes and the Dynamics of Musical Identity
Samuel F. Way, Santiago Gil, Ian Anderson +1
Musical tastes reflect our unique values and experiences, our relationships with others, and the places where we live. But as each of these things changes, do our tastes also chang…
Prestige drives epistemic inequality in the diffusion of scientific ideas
Allison C. Morgan, Dimitrios J. Economou, Samuel F. Way +1
The spread of ideas in the scientific community is often viewed as a competition, in which good ideas spread further because of greater intrinsic fitness, and publication venue and…
Automatically assembling a full census of an academic field
Allison C. Morgan, Samuel F. Way, Aaron Clauset
The composition of the scientific workforce shapes the direction of scientific research, directly through the selection of questions to investigate, and indirectly through its infl…
Network assembly of scientific communities of varying size and specificity
Daniel T. Citron, Samuel F. Way
How does the collaboration network of researchers coalesce around a scientific topic? What sort of social restructuring occurs as a new field develops? Previous empirical explorati…
The misleading narrative of the canonical faculty productivity trajectory
Samuel F. Way, Allison C. Morgan, Aaron Clauset +1
A scientist may publish tens or hundreds of papers over a career, but these contributions are not evenly spaced in time. Sixty years of studies on career productivity patterns in a…
Gender, Productivity, and Prestige in Computer Science Faculty Hiring Networks
Samuel F. Way, Daniel B. Larremore, Aaron Clauset
Women are dramatically underrepresented in computer science at all levels in academia and account for just 15% of tenure-track faculty. Understanding the causes of this gender imba…
Assembling thefacebook: Using heterogeneity to understand online social network assembly
Abigail Z. Jacobs, Samuel F. Way, Johan Ugander +1
Online social networks represent a popular and diverse class of social media systems. Despite this variety, each of these systems undergoes a general process of online social netwo…