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Emergence of Scaling in Complex Substitutive Systems
Emergence of Scaling in Complex Substitutive Systems
The Evolution of Citation Graphs in Artificial Intelligence Research
The Evolution of Citation Graphs in Artificial Intelligence Research
Large Teams Develop and Small Teams Disrupt Science And Technology
Large Teams Develop and Small Teams Disrupt Science And Technology
Toward a More Scientific Science
Toward a More Scientific Science
A Century of Physics
A Century of Physics
Quantifying Long-Term Scientific Impact
Quantifying Long-Term Scientific Impact
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  • Artificial Intelligence 4
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  • Human Dynamic 9
  • Human Mobility 5
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  • Network Science 1
  • Policy 1
  • Science of Science 27
  • Social Network 7

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October 31, 2019

Quantifying Dynamics of Failure Across Science, Startups, and Security (PDF)→

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Yian Yin, Yang Wang, James A. Evans, and Dashun Wang (2019). Nature.
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2019, under-review
Big Data, Science of Science, All
October 01, 2019

Early-Career Setback and Future Career Impact (PDF)→

October 01, 2019/ ScienceSites

Yang Wang, Benjamin F. Jones, and Dashun Wang (2019). Nature Communications.
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• One of the 50 most read Nature Communications articles from across the life and biological sciences in 2019

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2019
Big Data, Science of Science, All
April 12, 2017

Scaling Identity Connects Human Mobility and Social Interactions (PDF)→

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Scaling Identity Connects Human Mobility and Social Interactions (PDF)

Pierre Deville, Chaoming Song, Nathan Eagle, Vincent Blondel, Albert-László Barabási, and Dashun Wang (2016). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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publications, 2016
Human Mobility, Big Data, All
April 12, 2017

Inspiration or Preparation? Explaining Creativity in Scientific Enterprise (PDF)→

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Xinyang Zhang, Dashun Wang, and Ting Wang. Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-2016).
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2016, publications
Science of Science, Big Data, All
April 12, 2017

Uncovering the Effect of Dominant Attributes on Community Topology: A Case of Facebook Networks (PDF)→

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Yi-Shan Sung, Dashun Wang, and Soundar Kumara (2016). Information Systems Frontiers.
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Social Network, Big Data, All
April 12, 2017

Episogram: Visual Summarization of Egocentric Social Interactions (PDF)→

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Nan Cao, Yu-Ru Lin, Fan Du, and Dashun Wang (2015). IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.
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2015, publications
Social Network, Big Data, All
April 12, 2017

Impact of Human Mobility on Social Networks (PDF)→

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Dashun Wang and Chaoming Song (2015). Journal of Communications and Networks, 17.2: 100-109.
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publications, 2015
Human Mobility, Social Network, Big Data, All
April 12, 2017

Why Amazon's Ratings Might Mislead You: The Story of Herding Effects (PDF)→

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Ting Wang and Dashun Wang (2014). Big Data, 2(4): 196-204.
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2014, publications
Human Dynamic, Big Data, All
April 12, 2017

Quantifying Herding Effects in Crowd Wisdom (PDF)→

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Ting Wang, Dashun Wang, and Fei Wang (2014). Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD-2014), ACM.
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publications, 2014
Human Dynamic, Big Data, All
April 12, 2017

Modeling and Predicting Popularity Dynamics via Reinforced Poisson Processes (PDF)→

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Hua-Wei Shen, Dashun Wang, Chaoming Song, and Albert-László Barabási (2014). The Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2014).
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2014, publications
Human Dynamic, Science of Science, Big Data, All
April 12, 2017

Quantifying Information Flow During Emergencies (PDF)→

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L. Gao, C. Song, Z. Gao, A.-L. Barabási, J. P. Bagrow, and D. Wang (2014). Scientific Reports, 4: 3997.
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publications, 2014
Human Dynamic, Big Data, All
April 12, 2017

Statistical Physics in the Era of Big Data (PDF)→

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Dashun Wang (2013). Committee: Albert-László Barabási (Chair), Alain Karma, David Lazer, Alessandro Vespignani. Ph.D. Thesis.
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publications, 2013
Big Data, Human Dynamic, Science of Science, All
April 12, 2017

Human Mobility, Social Ties, and Link Prediction (PDF) ​​​​​​​→

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Dashun Wang, Dino Pedreschi, Chaoming Song, Fosca Giannotti, and Albert-László Barabási (2011). Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2011), ACM.
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2011, publications
Social Network, Big Data, Human Mobility, All
April 12, 2017

Information Spreading in Context (PDF)→

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Dashun Wang, Zhen Wen, Hanghang Tong, Ching-Yung Lin, Chaoming Song, and Albert-László Barabási (2011). Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW-2011), ACM.
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2011, publications
Big Data, Social Network, All
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Representative Publications

Academic Articles
Coevolution of Policy and Science During the Pandemic

Yian Yin, Jian Gao, Benjamin F. Jones, and Dashun Wang (2021). Science, 371(6525), 128-130.

Quantifying Dynamics of Failure Across Science, Startups, and Security (PDF)

Yian Yin, Yang Wang, James A. Evans, and Dashun Wang (2019). Nature.
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Early-Career Setback and Future Career Impact (PDF)

Yang Wang, Benjamin F. Jones, and Dashun Wang (2019). Nature Communications.
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• One of the 50 most read Nature Communications articles from across the life and biological sciences in 2019

Emergence of Scaling in Complex Substitutive Systems (PDF)

Ching Jin, Chaoming Song, Johannes Bjelland, Geoffrey Canright, and Dashun Wang (in press). Nature Human Behaviour.
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Large Teams Develop and Small Teams Disrupt Science And Technology (PDF)

Lingfei Wu, Dashun Wang, and James A. Evans (2019). Nature.
• arXiv preprint
• Ranked by Altmetrics as one of the 100 most-discussed papers in 2019

Hot Streaks in Artistic, Cultural, and Scientific Careers

Lu Liu, Yang Wang, Roberta Sinatra, C. Lee Giles, Chaoming Song, and Dashun Wang (2018). Nature.
• Data and Code
• arXiv preprint
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Quantifying Patterns of Research-Interest Evolution (PDF)

Tao Jia, Dashun Wang, and Boleslaw K. Szymanski (2017). Nature Human Behaviour.

Quantifying the Evolution of Individual Scientific Impact (PDF)

Roberta Sinatra, Dashun Wang, Pierre Deville, Chaoming Song, and Albert-László Barabási (2016). Science.
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Scaling Identity Connects Human Mobility and Social Interactions (PDF)

Pierre Deville, Chaoming Song, Nathan Eagle, Vincent Blondel, Albert-László Barabási, and Dashun Wang (2016). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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Quantifying Long-Term Scientific Impact (PDF)

Dashun Wang, Chaoming Song, and Albert-László Barabási (2013). Science, 342, 6154: 127-132.
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