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A High-Scale Assessment of Social Media and Mainstream Media in Scientific Communication
Yang Yang, Tanya Tian, Brian Uzzi +1
Communication of scientific knowledge beyond the walls of science is key to science's societal impact. Media channels play sizable roles in disseminating new scientific ideas about…
Quantifying the Dynamics of Innovation Abandonment Across Scientific, Technological, Commercial, and Pharmacological Domains
Binglu Wang, Ching Jin, Chaoming Song +3
Despite the vast literature on the diffusion of innovations that impacts a broad range of disciplines, our understanding of the abandonment of innovations remains limited yet is es…
The rising of collective forgetting and cultural selectivity in inventors and physicists communities
Cristian Candia, Brian Uzzi
How long until this paper is forgotten? Collective forgetting is the process by which the attention received by cultural pieces decays as time passes. Recent work modeled this deca…
The Scientific Prize Network Predicts Who Pushes the Boundaries of Science
Yifang Ma, Brian Uzzi
Scientific prizes are among the greatest recognition a scientist receives from their peers and arguably shape the direction of a field by conferring credibility to persons, ideas,…
The Formation and Imprinting of Network Effects Among the Business Elite
Brian Uzzi, Yang Yang, Kevin Gaughan
The business elite constitutes a small but strikingly influential subset of the population, oftentimes affecting important societal outcomes such as the consolidation of political…
Structure and dynamics of core-periphery networks
Peter Csermely, Andras London, Ling-Yun Wu +1
Recent studies uncovered important core/periphery network structures characterizing complex sets of cooperative and competitive interactions between network nodes, be they proteins…
Synchronicity, Instant Messaging and Performance among Financial Traders
Serguei Saavedra, Kathleen Hagerty, Brian Uzzi
Successful animal systems often manage risk through synchronous behavior that spontaneously arises without leadership. In critical human systems facing risk, such as financial mark…
Common Organizing Mechanisms in Ecological and Socio-economic Networks
Serguei Saavedra, Felix Reed-Tsochas, Brian Uzzi
Previous work has shown that species interacting in an ecosystem and actors transacting in an economic context may have notable similarities in behavior. However, the specific mech…