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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,…
Social Connection Induces Cultural Contraction: Evidence from Hyperbolic Embeddings of Social and Semantic Networks
Lingfei Wu, Linzhuo Li, James Evans
Research has repeatedly demonstrated the influence of social connection and communication on convergence in cultural tastes, opinions and ideas. Here we review recent studies and c…
Large Teams Have Developed Science and Technology; Small Teams Have Disrupted It
Lingfei Wu, Dashun Wang, James A. Evans
Teams dominate the production of high-impact science and technology. Analyzing teamwork from more than 50 million papers, patents, and software products, 1954-2014, we demonstrate…
Attention Dynamics in Collaborative Knowledge Creation
Lingfei Wu, Marco A. Janssen
To uncover the mechanisms underlying the collaborative production of knowledge, we investigate a very large online Question and Answer system that includes the question asking and…
The Role of Diverse Strategies in Sustainable Knowledge Production
Lingfei Wu, Jacopo A. Baggio, Marco A. Janssen
Online communities are becoming increasingly important as platforms for large-scale human cooperation. These communities allow users seeking and sharing professional skills to solv…
The Hidden Geometry of Attention Diffusion
Cheng-Jun Wang, Lingfei Wu, Jiang Zhang +1
We propose a geometric model to quantify the dynamics of attention in online communities. Using clicks as a proxy of attention, we find that the diffusion of collective attention i…
The Metabolism and Growth of Web Forums
Lingfei Wu, Jiang Zhang, Min Zhao
We view web forums as virtual living organisms feeding on user's attention and investigate how these organisms grow at the expense of collective attention. We find that the "body m…
Accelerating Growth and Size-dependent Distribution of Human Activities Online
Lingfei Wu, Jiang Zhang
Research on human online activities usually assumes that total activity increases linearly with active population , that is, . However, we find examples o…