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Media

July 02, 2024

Organizations Are Complex. Complexity Science Can Help Us Understand Them→

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Kellogg Insight
February 12, 2024

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January 23, 2023

What Happened to All of Science’s Big Breakthroughs?→

January 23, 2023/ ScienceSites

- The New York Times
January 17, 2023

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July 18, 2022

A $1.8 Billion Startup Has Its Workers Spend 10% of Their Time on ‘Exploration.’ Here’s Why Its CEO Says It’s a Necessity→

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- Insider
July 14, 2022

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July 04, 2022

Government-funded Scientific Research Reflects Public Interest, Study Finds→

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- McCormick Engineering News
July 8, 2022

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February 20, 2022

A High-Speed Scientific Hive Mind Emerged from the COVID Pandemic→

February 20, 2022/ ScienceSites

- Scientific American
March 1, 2022

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February 02, 2022

Near Misses … and the Impact of Early Failures on Future Success (video)→

February 02, 2022/ ScienceSites

- Interview with Angela Duckworth
February 2022

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2022, media
January 11, 2022

Career Hot Streaks … and the Role of ‘Exploration Before Exploitation’ in Success (video)→

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- Interview with Angela Duckworth
January 2022

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November 05, 2021

Hot Streaks in Your Career Don’t Happen by Accident→

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- The Atlantic
November 1, 2021

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2021, media
October 11, 2021

During Dean’s Seminar Series Lecture, Dashun Wang Stresses Hope→

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- McCormick Engineering News
October 11, 2021

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2021, media
October 10, 2021

Dashun Wang: Distilling Lessons from the Science of Science (Dean’s Seminar Series) (video)→

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- Northwestern Engineering
October 8, 2021

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2021, media
September 16, 2021

The World’s Most Creative People Have This One Thing in Common→

September 16, 2021/ ScienceSites

- Fast Company
September 15, 2021

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2021, media
September 15, 2021

What Was Really the Secret Behind Van Gogh’s Success?→

September 15, 2021/ ScienceSites

- Northwestern Now
September 13, 2021

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2021, media
September 14, 2021

Scientists Identify Key Conditions to Set Up a Creative ‘Hot Streak’→

September 14, 2021/ ScienceSites

- The Guardian
September 13, 2021

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2021, media
July 26, 2021

New Policy-Focused Research Examines COVID-19 Societal Impact→

July 26, 2021/ ScienceSites

- Northwestern Now
July 22, 2021

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2021, media
July 14, 2021

Dashun Wang Awarded Erdös-Rényi Prize→

July 14, 2021/ ScienceSites

- Network Science Society
2021

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2021, media
July 07, 2021

How Has Covid-19 Shaped Scientists—and the Future of Science?→

July 07, 2021/ ScienceSites

- Kellogg Insight
July 7, 2021

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2021, media
March 31, 2021

How Does Science Work?→

March 31, 2021/ ScienceSites

- Northwestern Now
March 25, 2021

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2021, media
February 10, 2021

Measuring the Impact of Innovation at Northwestern→

February 10, 2021/ ScienceSites

- Northwestern Now
February 9, 2021

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2021, media
February 01, 2021

Dashun Wang Named to Thinkers50 Radar List→

February 01, 2021/ ScienceSites

- Northwestern Now
January 27, 2021

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2021, media
January 29, 2021

The Bold Ideas To Tackle Today’s Toughest Global Challenges: Announcing The 2021 Thinkers50 Radar Class→

January 29, 2021/ ScienceSites

- Forbes
January 25, 2021

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2021, media
January 21, 2021

Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2021→

January 21, 2021/ ScienceSites

- Thinkers50
January 21, 2021

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2021, media
January 11, 2021

How Well Does COVID Public Policy Align with Science?→

January 11, 2021/ ScienceSites

- Kellogg Insight
January 7, 2021

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media, 2021
December 31, 2020

Northwestern University Research Impact Report→

December 31, 2020/ ScienceSites

- Northwestern Research Communications
2020

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2020, media
December 11, 2020

Researchers Found a Key Reason Certain People Succeed While Others Fall Behind→

December 11, 2020/ ScienceSites

- Business Insider
December 9, 2020

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2020, media
December 04, 2020

Why Do Some People Succeed after Failing, While Others Continue to Flounder?→

December 04, 2020/ ScienceSites

- Kellogg Insight
December 2, 2020

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2020, media
November 30, 2020

Meet Adam, the “Scientist” Who Never Sleeps→

November 30, 2020/ ScienceSites

- Kellogg Insight
November 17, 2020

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2020, media
August 18, 2020

Pandemic Hits Scientist Parents Hard→

August 18, 2020/ ScienceSites

- Science
August 7, 2020

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2020, media
July 17, 2020

Pandemic Disproportionately Affects Scientists With Young Children→

July 17, 2020/ ScienceSites

- Northwestern Now
July 15, 2020

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2020, media
July 16, 2020

The Pandemic Has Slashed Scientists’ Productivity→

July 16, 2020/ ScienceSites

- Kellogg Insight
July 15, 2020

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2020, media
April 28, 2020

World Changing Ideas Awards 2020: Education Finalists and Honorable Mentions→

April 28, 2020/ ScienceSites

- Fast Company
April 28, 2020

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2020, media
April 24, 2020

The Nobel Curse Is REAL: Experts Become LESS Influential After Winning World’s Top Science Prize - Especially in Physics and Medicine, Study Confirms→

April 24, 2020/ ScienceSites

- Daily Mail
April 22, 2020

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2020, media
April 22, 2020

Scientists Fall Foul of Nobel Curse→

April 22, 2020/ ScienceSites

- The Times
April 22, 2020

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2020, media
April 21, 2020

2020 Innovations That Inspire→

April 21, 2020/ ScienceSites

- AACSB
April 21, 2020

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2020, media
April 20, 2020

Virtual NASCAR, Peloton Racing With PGA Pros, Predicting Fan Behavior, And More (audio)→

April 20, 2020/ ScienceSites

- Only A Game, NPR
April 17, 2020

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2020, media
February 05, 2020

The New Science of Success (audio)→

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- The Science Show, ABC Radio National
February 8, 2020

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2020, media
December 13, 2019

The Tipping Point Between Failure and Success→

December 13, 2019/ ScienceSites

- HBR IdeaCast
December 10, 2019

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media, 2019
November 22, 2019

Why Failing Fast Is Critical if You Want to Eventually Win→

November 22, 2019/ ScienceSites

- Fast Company
November 19, 2019

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2019, media
dynamics of failure
November 01, 2019

New Study: Early Failure Makes You More Likely to Succeed in the Future, Not Less→

November 01, 2019/ ScienceSites

- Inc.
November 1, 2019

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2019, media
early-career setbacks
November 01, 2019

The Unexpected Benefit of Failing at the Start of Your Career→

November 01, 2019/ ScienceSites

- Quartz at Work
October 28, 2019

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2019, media
early-career setbacks
October 28, 2019

How Early-Career Setbacks Can Set You Up for Success→

October 28, 2019/ ScienceSites

- The New York Times
October 27, 2019

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early-career setbacks
October 25, 2019

Career Setbacks Can Help Your Performance, But Hurt Your Pay →

October 25, 2019/ ScienceSites

- Bloomberg Opinion
October 23, 2019

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2019, media
early-career setbacks
October 14, 2019

Early-Career Failure Can Mean Later-Career Success, If You Keep at It→

October 14, 2019/ ScienceSites

- Ladders
October 10, 2019

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2019, media
October 11, 2019

When You Fail, It’s Important That You Do This One Thing, According to Science→

October 11, 2019/ ScienceSites

- Inc.
October 2, 2019

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2019, media
October 10, 2019

Failing Early in Your Career Can Make You More Successful in the Future→

October 10, 2019/ ScienceSites

- CNBC
October 2, 2019

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2019, media
October 09, 2019

Failing Might Actually Be Good For You→

October 09, 2019/ ScienceSites

- PressFrom
October 2, 2019

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2019, media
October 08, 2019

Early Career Failures Can Make You Stronger in the Long Run→

October 08, 2019/ ScienceSites

- Kellogg Insight
October 1, 2019

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2019, media
October 07, 2019

Science Proves That What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger→

October 07, 2019/ ScienceSites

- Phys.org
October 1, 2019
* Also published by PsychCentral, Scitech Daily, Science Daily, and Long Room

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2019, media
October 04, 2019

For Scientists, Failure Can Pay Dividends Down the Road→

October 04, 2019/ ScienceSites

- UPI
October 1, 2019

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2019, media
October 03, 2019

Nietzsche Was Right: What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger, Study Approves→

October 03, 2019/ ScienceSites

- Interesting Engineering
October 1, 2019

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2019, media
October 02, 2019

Failing Might Actually Be Good For You→

October 02, 2019/ ScienceSites

- BGR
October 1, 2019
* Also published by New York Post

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August 02, 2019

Best of the Rest→

August 02, 2019/ ScienceSites

- CMO Today, The Wall Street Journal
July 17, 2019

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2019, media
July 31, 2019

Why Suffering Setbacks Could Make You More Successful→

July 31, 2019/ ScienceSites

- BBC News
July 9, 2019

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2019, media
July 03, 2019

AI and Social Sciences Grow Apart→

July 03, 2019/ ScienceSites

- WSJ Pro Artificial Intelligence
July 2, 2019

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2019, media
July 02, 2019

AI and the Social Sciences Used to Talk More. Now They’ve Drifted Apart→

July 02, 2019/ ScienceSites

- Kellogg Insights
July 1, 2019

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2019, media
May 24, 2019

The Obstacles That Speed and Slow Our Path→

May 24, 2019/ ScienceSites

- Undercover Economist, Financial Times
May 17, 2019

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2019, media
May 17, 2019

In Science, Grit Counts as Well as Talent→

May 17, 2019/ ScienceSites

- The Economist
May 9, 2019

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2019, media
April 22, 2019

2019 Best 40 Under 40 Professors: Dashun Wang, Northwestern University (Kellogg)→

April 22, 2019/ ScienceSites

- Poets & Quants
April 22, 2019

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2019, media
April 22, 2019

5 Ways to Avoid Startup Failure by Increasing Your Team’s Learning Speed→

April 22, 2019/ ScienceSites

- Inc.
April 15, 2019

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2019, media
April 01, 2019

How the Data Mining of Failure Could Teach Us the Secrets of Success→

April 01, 2019/ ScienceSites

- Emerging Technology from the arXiv, MIT Technology Review
March 29, 2019

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2019, media
March 27, 2019

Early-Career Failure Can Lead to Future Success, According to US Study→

March 27, 2019/ ScienceSites

- Physics World
March 26, 2019

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2019, media
February 26, 2019

Where Do Disruptive Ideas Happen? Not on a Big Team→

February 26, 2019/ ScienceSites

- Bloomberg Opinion
February 20, 2019

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2019, media
February 25, 2019

Want Disruptive Research? Go Small Instead of Big→

February 25, 2019/ ScienceSites

- The Conversation
February 20, 2019

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2019, media
February 22, 2019

Innovation and Disruption Get Less Likely With a Bigger Team, Study Finds→

February 22, 2019/ ScienceSites

- Inverse
February 17, 2019

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media, 2019
February 21, 2019

Why Size Matters For a Working Team→

February 21, 2019/ ScienceSites

- Entrepreneur Asia Pacific
February 17, 2019

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2019, media
February 20, 2019

Innovation and Disruption Get Less Likely With a Bigger Team, Study Finds→

February 20, 2019/ ScienceSites

- Inverse
February 17, 2019

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2019, media
February 18, 2019

It Takes More Than Members To Make A Team→

February 18, 2019/ ScienceSites

- Forbes
February 15, 2019

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2019, media
February 13, 2019

Can Big Science Be Too Big?→

February 13, 2019/ ScienceSites

- The New York Times
February 13, 2019

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2019, media
February 13, 2019

Small Teams of Scientists Have Fresher Ideas→

February 13, 2019/ ScienceSites

- The Atlantic
February 13, 2019

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media, 2019
October 31, 2018

Worried You’ve Missed Out on a ‘Hot Streak’ in Life? It May Be Just Around the Corner→

October 31, 2018/ ScienceSites

- TODAY
October 12, 2018

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2018, media
October 10, 2018

Feel Like You Haven’t Hit Your Peak Yet? It’s Never Too Late→

October 10, 2018/ ScienceSites

- Smarter Living, The New York Times
October 8, 2018

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2018, media
September 28, 2018

There Is Such a Thing as a Career Hot Streak — and It Can Happen at Anytime→

September 28, 2018/ ScienceSites

- Quartz at Work
September 24, 2018
* Also published by World Economic Forum

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2018, media
hot streaks
September 24, 2018

Predicting Scientific Success→

September 24, 2018/ ScienceSites

- Nature Index
September 19, 2018

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2018, media
hot streaks
September 11, 2018

Researchers Looked at Career ‘Hot Streaks’ of 30,000 Successful People — Here's What They Found→

September 11, 2018/ ScienceSites

- CNBC
September 18, 2018

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2018, media
hot streaks
September 10, 2018

It’s Never Too Late for Your Career to Peak→

September 10, 2018/ ScienceSites

- Fast Company
September 12, 2018

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2018, media
hot streaks
September 07, 2018

Hot Streak: Finding Patterns in Creative Career Breakthroughs→

September 07, 2018/ ScienceSites

- Penn State News
September 6, 2018

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2018, media
hot streaks
September 04, 2018

What Elon Musk and President Trump Have in Common→

September 04, 2018/ ScienceSites

- Data Sheet, Fortune
August 20, 2018

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2018, media
hot streaks
August 31, 2018

Your Career Hot Streak Can Happen at Anytime, Study Finds→

August 31, 2018/ ScienceSites

- Ladders
August 16, 2018

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2018, media
hot streaks
July 30, 2018

Kreativität: «Supersträhnen» verhelfen zu Meisterwerken→

July 30, 2018/ ScienceSites

- Pharmazeutische Zeitung
July 19, 2018

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2018, media
hot streaks
July 27, 2018

Wann Sie Mit Erfolg Rechnen Können→

July 27, 2018/ ScienceSites

- SPIEGEL ONLINE
July 16, 2018

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media, 2018
hot streaks
July 26, 2018

The ‘Hot Streak’ Is Real, But It’s Not About Luck→

July 26, 2018/ ScienceSites

- Bloomberg
July 13, 2018
* Also appearing in The Herald Sun, My San Antonio, The Japanese Times, and Arkansas Online

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2018, media
hot streaks
July 25, 2018

Science Is Trying to Understand the Secrets of Creative Hot Streaks→

July 25, 2018/ ScienceSites

- Wired
July 13, 2018

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2018, media
hot streaks
July 24, 2018

The Science Behind Career ‘Hot Streaks’→

July 24, 2018/ ScienceSites

- Business Insider Australia
July 12, 2018

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2018, media
hot streaks
July 24, 2018

Your Purple Patch of Creativity Can Come at Any Time, Researchers Say→

July 24, 2018/ ScienceSites

- The Times
July 12, 2018

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2018, media
hot streaks
July 23, 2018

A Statistical Study of the Hot Streak→

July 23, 2018/ ScienceSites

- Phys.org
July 12, 2018

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2018, media
hot streaks
July 21, 2018

Creative ‘Hot Streaks’ Are No Coincidence, But They Come With Caveats→

July 21, 2018/ ScienceSites

- Inverse
July 12, 2018

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2018, media
hot streaks
July 19, 2018

Las Rachas De Éxito No Dependen De Aumentar El Esfuerzo, Sino Que Llegan Por Azar→

July 19, 2018/ ScienceSites

- Madrid
July 12, 2018

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2018, media
hot streaks
July 19, 2018

Winning Streaks ARE Real! Scientists Discover We Really Do Have Random Periods of Repeated Success Throughout Our Working Lives→

July 19, 2018/ ScienceSites

- Daily Mail
July 11, 2018

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2018, media
hot streaks
July 18, 2018

From Artists to Scientists, Anyone Can Have a Successful Streak at Any Time→

July 18, 2018/ ScienceSites

- Nature Editorial
July 11, 2018

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2018, media
hot streaks
July 17, 2018

When You’re Hot, You’re Hot: Career Successes Come in Clusters→

July 17, 2018/ ScienceSites

- Kellogg Insight
July 11, 2018

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2018, media
hot streaks
July 16, 2018

Creative Types All Go Through Hot Streaks of Superior Production→

July 16, 2018/ ScienceSites

- Ars Technica
July 11, 2018

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2018, media
hot streaks
July 14, 2018

What Sparks Hot Streaks for Artists and Athletes?→

July 14, 2018/ ScienceSites

- Discover
July 11, 2018

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2018, media
hot streaks
July 13, 2018

Las Rachas De Éxito No Dependen De Aumentar El Esfuerzo, Sino Que Llegan Por Azar→

July 13, 2018/ ScienceSites

- EL PAÍS
July 11, 2018

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2018, media
hot streaks
July 12, 2018

Studie: Keine Muster In Erfolgsläufen Von Künstlern Und Forschern→

July 12, 2018/ ScienceSites

- Studium.at
July 11, 2018

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media, 2018
hot streaks
November 30, 2017

“Science Paths” by Kim Albrecht Wins Gold Prize at the 2017 Information Is Beautiful Awards

November 30, 2017/ ScienceSites

- 2017 Kantar Information Is Beautiful Awards
November 29, 2017

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2017, media
August 09, 2017

How Innovators Choose Their Next Career Move→

August 09, 2017/ ScienceSites

- Kellogg Insight
August 2, 2017

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media, 2017
April 13, 2017

Are You Too Old to Find Success?→

April 13, 2017/ ScienceSites

- The Guardian
December 16, 2016

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2016, media
evolution of individual scientific impact
April 13, 2017

Are You a Late Bloomer? The Careers of Eminent Scientists Offer Hope→

April 13, 2017/ ScienceSites

- The Huffington Post
November 14, 2016

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2016, media
evolution of individual scientific impact
April 13, 2017

Study Shows Youth Isn't The Key To Making A Mark→

April 13, 2017/ ScienceSites

- Next Avenue, Forbes
November 4, 2016

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2016, media
evolution of individual scientific impact
April 13, 2017

Scientists Can Publish Their Best Work at Any Age→

April 13, 2017/ ScienceSites

- Nature
November 3, 2016

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2016, media
evolution of individual scientific impact
April 13, 2017

Is a Scientific Career Predictable? (video)→

April 13, 2017/ ScienceSites

- Nature
November 3, 2016

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2016, media
evolution of individual scientific impact
April 13, 2017

When It Comes to Success, Age Really Is Just a Number→

April 13, 2017/ ScienceSites

- The New York Times
November 3, 2016

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2016, media
evolution of individual scientific impact
April 13, 2017

See How the Most Influential Science Comes in Waves→

April 13, 2017/ ScienceSites

- Wired
November 3, 2016

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2016, media
evolution of individual scientific impact
April 13, 2017

Hey Scientists, How Much of Your Publication Success Is Due to Dumb Luck?→

April 13, 2017/ ScienceSites

- Science
November 3, 2016

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2016, media
evolution of individual scientific impact
April 13, 2017

Predicting Scientific Success→

April 13, 2017/ ScienceSites

- The Scientist
November 3, 2016

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2016, media
evolution of individual scientific impact
April 13, 2017

Why a Scientist’s Big Break May Be Just Around the Corner→

April 13, 2017/ ScienceSites

- Kellogg Insight
November 2, 2016

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2016, media
evolution of individual scientific impact
April 13, 2017

Podcast: Think You Understand Why Ideas Go Viral? Big Data May Change Your Mind→

April 13, 2017/ ScienceSites

- Kellogg Insight
October 3, 2016

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2016, media
April 13, 2017

Wang Receives Air Force Grant to Explore the Future of Science Through Big Data→

April 13, 2017/ ScienceSites

- Penn State News
February 4, 2016

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media, 2016
April 12, 2017

Why Climb the Greasy Pole?→

April 12, 2017/ ScienceSites

- The Economist
May 10, 2014

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2014, media
career on the move
April 12, 2017

The Science of a Career→

April 12, 2017/ ScienceSites

- iNSolution, news@Northeastern
May 6, 2014

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media, 2014
career on the move
April 12, 2017

北交大非常规突发事件下人类行为研究有突破→

April 12, 2017/ ScienceSites

- China Education and Research Network
February 25, 2014

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2014, media
information flow during emergencies
April 12, 2017

Quantifying Information Flow During Emergencies→

April 12, 2017/ ScienceSites

- iRevolutions
February 19, 2014

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media, 2014
information flow during emergencies
February 11, 2017

How Information Flows During Emergencies→

February 11, 2017/ ScienceSites

- Emerging Technology from the arXiv, MIT Technology Review
January 15, 2014

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media, 2014
information flow during emergencies
February 11, 2017

Measuring Academic Impact→

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- Central European University Newsroom
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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.
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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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