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Scientific datasets play a crucial role in contemporary data-driven research, as they allow for the progress of science by facilitating the discovery of new patterns and phenomena. This mounting demand for empirical research raises…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Yulin Yu , Daniel M. Romero

Data science has emerged from the proliferation of digital data, coupled with advances in algorithms, software and hardware (e.g., GPU computing). Innovations in structural biology have been driven by similar factors, spurring us to ask:…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-03 Cameron Mura , Eli J. Draizen , Philip E. Bourne

Prior work has provided strong evidence that, within organizational settings, teams that bring a diversity of information and perspectives to a task are more effective than teams that do not. If this form of informational diversity confers…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Hoda Heidari , Solon Barocas , Jon Kleinberg , Karen Levy

Research into human dynamical systems has long sought to identify robust signals for human behavior. We have discovered a series of social network-based indicators that are reliable predictors of team creativity and collaborative…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-03 Peter A. Gloor , Adam Almozlino , Orr Inbar , Wei Lo , Shannon Provost

Initially developed to capture technical innovation and later adapted to identify scientific breakthroughs, the Disruption Index (D-index) offers the first quantitative framework for analyzing transformative research. Despite its promise,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yiling Lin , Linzhuo Li , Lingfei Wu

Prior work finds a diversity paradox: diversity breeds innovation, and yet, underrepresented groups that diversify organizations have less successful careers within them. Does the diversity paradox hold for scientists as well? We study this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Bas Hofstra , Vivek V. Kulkarni , Sebastian Munoz-Najar Galvez , Bryan He , Dan Jurafsky , Daniel A. McFarland

This paper develops a theory of scientific and technological peer effects to study how individuals' productivity responds to the behavior and network positions of their collaborators across both scientific and inventive activities. Building…

General Economics · Economics 2026-02-03 Michael Balzer , Adhen Benlahlou

Recent research on the decline in the paper disruption index (D-index) has sparked heated debates among scholars and garnered significant attention from policymakers and research institution leaders globally. To bridge the gap between…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Linzhuo Li , Yiling Lin , Lingfei Wu

Networks provide a powerful formalism for modeling complex systems by using a model of pairwise interactions. But much of the structure within these systems involves interactions that take place among more than two nodes at once; for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Austin R. Benson , Rediet Abebe , Michael T. Schaub , Ali Jadbabaie , Jon Kleinberg

Combining social network analysis with personal interviews, the paper examines how the social structure and internal composition of three Africa-focused international research networks contributes to their resilience. It shows that research…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Olivier J. Walther , Rafael Prieto-Curiel , Erica Odera

The built environment is the basis for human experience in the world, yet its current practices contribute significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions, resource depletion, and environmental degradation. This chapter explores the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-03 Dorian Hanaor

Existing studies of innovation emphasize the power of social structures to shape innovation capacity. Emerging machine learning approaches, however, enable us to model innovators' personal perspectives and interpersonal innovation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Likun Cao , Rui Pan , James Evans

Uncovering structural patterns in collaboration networks is key for understanding how knowledge flows and innovation emerges. These networks often exhibit a rich interplay of meso-scale structures, such as communities, core-periphery…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-25 Sara Geremia , Domenico De Stefano , Michael Fop

Science is increasingly dominated by teams. Understanding patterns of scientific collaboration and their impacts on the productivity and evolution of disciplines is crucial to understand scientific processes. Electronic bibliography offers…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-09-17 Qing Ke , Yong-Yeol Ahn

The paper presents the investigation and implementation of the relationship between diversity and the performance of multiple classifiers on classification accuracy. The study is critical as to build classifiers that are strong and can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-10-22 R. Musehane , F. Netshiongolwe , F. V. Nelwamondo , L. Masisi , T. Marwala

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly embedded in the core functions of social, political, and economic life, it catalyzes structural transformations with far-reaching societal implications. This paper advances the concept of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Kyle A Kilian

Crowdsourcing can collect many diverse ideas by prompting ideators individually, but this can generate redundant ideas. Prior methods reduce redundancy by presenting peers' ideas or peer-proposed prompts, but these require much human…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Samuel Rhys Cox , Yunlong Wang , Ashraf Abdul , Christian von der Weth , Brian Y. Lim

The temporal dimension of citation accumulation poses fundamental challenges for quantitative research evaluations, particularly in assessing disruptive and consolidating research through the disruption index (D). While prior studies…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hongkan Chen , Lutz Bornmann , Yi Bu

From science to industry, teamwork plays a crucial role in knowledge production and innovation. Most studies consider teams as static groups of individuals, thereby failing to capture how the micro-dynamics of collaborative processes and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-29 Lorenzo Betti , Luca Gallo , Johannes Wachs , Federico Battiston

There has been a surge of recent interest in sociocultural diversity in machine learning (ML) research, with researchers (i) examining the benefits of diversity as an organizational solution for alleviating problems with algorithmic bias,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Sina Fazelpour , Maria De-Arteaga