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June 30, 2020

How I’m Using AI Tools to Help Universities Maximize Research Impacts→

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June 24, 2020

Cover Story: Large Teams Develop and Small Teams Disrupt Science And Technology→

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Cover Story: Large Teams Develop and Small Teams Disrupt Science And Technology

Cover Story: Large Teams Develop and Small Teams Disrupt Science And Technology

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Hot Streaks in Artistic, Cultural, and Scientific Careers→

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June 22, 2020

Cover Story: Toward a More Scientific Science→

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Science of Science (In Science)→

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June 20, 2020

Cover Story: Quantifying Long-Term Scientific Impact→

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Cover Story: Quantifying Long-Term Scientific Impact

We derive a mechanistic model for the citation dynamics of individual papers, allowing us to collapse the citation histories of papers from different journals and disciplines into a single curve, indicating that all papers tend to follow the same universal temporal pattern.

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July 22, 2019

Essay: How New Versions of Products Spread Differently Than Entirely New Products→

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Essay: How New Versions of Products Spread Differently Than Entirely New Products

A study of phones, cars, and apps.

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July 11, 2019

Research: When Small Teams Are Better Than Big Ones→

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Research: When Small Teams Are Better Than Big Ones

They’re more likely to come up with breakthrough ideas.

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July 01, 2019

Research: Can Big Science Be Too Big?→

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Research: Can Big Science Be Too Big?

A new study finds that small teams of researchers do more innovative work than large teams do.

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October 10, 2018

Op-Ed: The Science Behind Career Hot Streaks→

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Op-Ed: The Science Behind Career Hot Streaks

Research shows that hot streaks are a fact in creative fields. Even more surprising: They can happen at any point, even late career.

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September 09, 2018

Essay: Career Hot Streaks Can Happen at Any Age→

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Essay: Career Hot Streaks Can Happen at Any Age

Your most productive years aren’t necessarily in your thirties and forties.

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September 07, 2018

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We probably can’t predict the timing of impact in a given field. But we may be able to forecast who is more likely to have the greatest impact.

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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.
• Supplementary Information
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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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