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Books

National Research Council, Committee on the Science of Team Science, Nancy J. Cooke and Margaret L. Hilton (Eds). "Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science." As a member of the National Research Council Committee on the Science of Team Science, co-authored a 2015 report along with Nancy J. Cooke (Chair), Roger D. Blandford, Jonathon N. Cummings, Stephen M. Fiore, Kara L. Hall, James S. Jackson, John L. King, Steven W. J. Kozlowski, Judith S. Olson, Jeremy A. Sabloff, Daniel S. Stokols, and Hannah Valantine, 2015.

Etzkowitz, Henry, Carol Kemelgor, and Brian Uzzi. "Athena Unbound: The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology." Cambridge University Press, 2000. Book Review from American Scientist Book Review in Nature PDF Download

Tzeng, Rueyling and Brian Uzzi (eds). "Embeddedness & Corporate Change in the Global Economy. Lang Publishing, Inc., 2000.

 

Research Articles

Peng, Hao, Huilian Sophie Qiua, Henrik Barslund Fossec, and Brian Uzzi "Promotional language and the adoption of innovative ideas in science". PNAS, 121 (25) e2320066121, June 11, 2024.

• Media Hits:
  • Kellogg Insight: Unique. Revolutionary. Fundamental. A Little Hype Can Help Scientists Win Grants (June 2004)

Wu, Youyou, Yang Yang and Brian Uzzi "Reply to Crockett et al. and Mottelson and Kontogiorgos: Machine learning’s scientific significance and future impact on replicability research", PNAS, 120 (33) e2308195120, August 7, 2023

Liu, Lu, Benjamin Jones, Brian Uzzi and Dashun Wang. "Data, measurement and empirical methods in the science of science", Nature Human Behavior, June 2023 (PDF VERSION)

Horvát, Ágnes, Henry Dambanemuya, Jayaram Uparna and Brian Uzzi. "Hidden Indicators of Collective Intelligence in Crowdfunding", WWW '23: Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, April 2023, Pages 3806–3815, https://doi.org/10.1145/3543507.3583414

Wu, Youyou, Yang Yang and Brian Uzzi. "A discipline-wide investigation of the replicability of Psychology papers over the past two decades", PNAS, 120 (6) e2208863120, January 30, 2023

Wang, Dashun and Brian Uzzi. "Weak ties, failed tries, and success" Science, Vol 377, Issue 6612, pp. 1256-1258, September 2022

• Media Hits:
  • Scientific American: A Massive LinkedIn Study Reveals Who Actually Helps You Get That Job (September 2022)

Yang, Yang, Tanya Y. Tian, Teresa K. Woodruff, Benjamin F. Jones and Brian Uzzi. "Gender-diverse teams produce more novel and higher-impact scientific ideas", Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, August 2022

• Media Hits:
  • Kellogg Insight: Gender-Balanced Teams Do Better Work (September 2022)
  • Inside Higher Ed: The Case for Gender-Diverse Research Teams (August 2022)
  • Fast Company: Behavioral scientists have discovered the secret recipe for team success—gender diversity (August 2022)
  • Northwestern Now: What happens when women and men work together? (August 2022)
  • MSU Today: Gender-balanced teams produce more innovative, impactful scientific research (August 2022)
  • Notre Dame News: Gender-diverse teams produce more novel, higher-impact scientific discoveries, study shows (August 2022)

Medya, Sourav, Mohammad Rasoolinejad, Yang Yang, and Brian Uzzi. "An Exploratory Study of Stock Price Movements from Earnings Calls", in Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2022 (WWW ’22 Companion), April 25–29, 2022

Horvát, Ágnes and Brian Uzzi. "Virtual collaboration hinders a key component of creativity", Nature, 27 April 2022 (PDF Version)

• Media Hits:
  • Daily Mail: Time to head back to the office? Working from home via Zoom is BAD for brainstorming and leads to fewer creative ideas than in-person meetings, study finds (April 2022)
  • The Guardian: Workers think less creatively in Zoom meetings, study finds (April 2022)
  • Scientific American: Brainstorming on Zoom Hampers Creativity (April 2022)

Candia, Cristian and Brian Uzzi. "Quantifying the Selective Forgetting and Integration of Ideas in Science and Technology", American Psychologist, Vol. 76, No. 6, 1067–1087, 2021 (PDF VERSION)

Mandal, Debmalya, Sourav Medya, Brian Uzzi and Charu Aggarwal. "Meta-Learning with Graph Neural Networks: Methods and Applications", ACM SIGKDD explorations newsletter, 23(2), pp.13-22, December 2021

Jin, Ching, Yifang Ma and Brian Uzzi. "Scientific prizes and the extraordinary growth of scientific topics", Nature Communications, 12, 5619 (2021)

• Media Hits:
  • Physics: Prizes Are Not Always a Win for Science (June 2022)
  • Phys.org: Prize winning topics found to deliver more science papers and citations than non-prize-winning topics (October 2021)
  • Physics World: Scientific fields that are awarded prizes see subsequent research boon, finds study (October 2021)
  • Times Higher Education: Research areas that win science prizes ‘see 40 per cent growth’ (October 2021)
  • Chemistry World: How prizes contribute to the ‘extraordinary growth’ of a scientific field (October 2021)
  • 36Kr: "What will happen in the next ten years when scientists are awarded?" (Article translated from Chinese, October 2021)
• Related Articles:
  • Jin, Ching and Brian Uzzi. "Evaluating the Role of Scientific Awards". Physics 14, 144, October 2021

Cheng, Feixiong, Yifang Ma, Brian Uzzi and Joseph Loscalzo. "Importance of scientific collaboration in contemporary drug discovery and development: a detailed network analysis", BMC Biology, October 2020

Ma, Yifang, Satyam Mukherjee, and Brian Uzzi. "Mentorship and protégé success in STEM fields", Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, June 2020.

• Media Hits:
  • The Scientist: Paper Recommends Women Avoid Female Mentors, Drawing Outrage (October 2020)
  • Kellogg Insight: What’s the Secret Ingredient to Great Mentorship? (July 2020)
  • Chemistry World: Mentorship ‘strongly predicts’ protégé success in the sciences (June 2020)
  • Ladders: "This is the most important aspect of teaching & mentorship, according to science" (June 2020)
  • Northwestern Now: Sharing of tacit knowledge is most important aspect of mentorship, study finds (June 2020)

Yang, Yang, Youyou Wu, and Brian Uzzi. "Estimating the deep replicability of scientific findings using human and artificial intelligence", Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, May 2020. (PDF VERSION)

• Media Hits:
  • Vox: Science has been in a “replication crisis” for a decade. Have we learned anything? (October 2020)
  • Kellogg Insight: How AI Can Help Weed Out Faulty Scientific Research (August 2020)
  • The Naked Scientists: Publishing & Politics: How Science Gets Made (Podcast, May 2020)
  • Fortune: How A.I. may help solve science’s ‘reproducibility’ crisis (May 2020)
  • WSJ: Northwestern University Team Develops Tool to Rate Covid-19 Research (May 2020)
  • Inverse: This simple AI could speed up the Covid-19 cure (May 2020)
  • Northwestern Now: AI speeds up search for COVID-19 treatments and vaccines (May 2020)
• Related Articles:
  • Havard Business Review: AI Emerges As A Major Player In The Race To Find Covid-19 Therapies And Vaccines (Article by Brian Uzzi, November 2020)
    

Dinesh, Majeti Akleman Ergun, Ahmed Mohammed Emtiaz, Petersen Alexander M., Uzzi Brian, Pavlidis Ioannis. “Scholar Plot: Design and Evaluation of an Information Interface for Faculty Research Performance”. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, Vol 4, 28 January 2020

• LinkedIn: Scholar Plot – Visualization of Research Careers Based on Open Data (January 2020)

Yang, Yang, Adam R. Pah, and Brian Uzzi. "Quantifying the future lethality of terror organizations", Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, October 2019. (PDF VERSION)

• Media Hits:
  • Boston Globe: Modeling terrorist organizations as business startups (January 2020)
  • The Marker: Catch them while they are small (December 2019) (English Translation)
  • Northwestern Now: Predicting terror activity before it happens (October 2019)
  • Sky News: How lethal will a terror group become? Researchers say they can now predict that (October 2019)
  • The Times of Isreal: US researchers develop data model to predict terror groups’ future lethality (October 2019)
• Related Articles:
  • Uzzi, Brian. "A Crystal Ball For Predicting Terrorist Effectiveness? We Created One". Forbes, November 2019

Askarisichani, Omid, Jacqueline Ng Lane, Francesco Bullo, Noah E. Friedkin, Ambuj K. Singh and Brian Uzzi. "Structural balance emerges and explains performance in risky decision-making". Nature Communications, 14 June 2019.

• Media Hits:
  • Kellogg Insight: Your Work Friends and Enemies Are Affecting Your Performance (January 2020)
  • Northwestern Now: Work performance improves when the enemy of an enemy is a friend (June 2019)

Oliveira, Diego F.M., Yifang Ma, Teresa Woodruff, and Brian Uzzi. "National Institutes of Health Grant Amounts to First-time Male and Female Principal Investigators". Journal of the American Medical Association, 5 March 2019. (PDF VERSION)

• Media Hits:
  • Kellogg Insight: How Big is the Gender Gap in Science Research Funding? (May 2019)
  • Voice of America: Study: Female Researchers Get Less Financial Support than Males (April 2019)
  • U.S. News & World Report: Funding Gap Leaves Women Scientists at a Lifelong Disadvantage: Study (March 2019)
  • Science: Men get larger first NIH grants, but is the news all bad for female scientists? (March 2019)
  • Ars Technica: New study suggests women may be getting less money to start labs (March 2019)
  • Smithsonian: Women in Science Receive Less Grant Money Than Their Male Peers (March 2019)
  • Inverse: Study Reveals Size of US Government's Gender Pay Gap for Scientists (March 2019)
  • WTTW: Female Scientists Receive $40K Less in Federal Funding Than Men (March 2019)
  • Pacific Standard: New Female Scientists Get $40,000 Less in Federal Grants Than New Male Ones, Study Finds (March 2019)
  • Crain's Chicago Business: Female scientists get less federal funding than men (March 2019)
  • Inside Higher Ed: Smaller Pots for Women (March 2019)
  • Reuters: Female scientists get smaller first-time grants than men (March 2019)
  • Chicago Tribune: Female scientists receive on average about $40,000 less in federal funding (March 2019)
  • New York Times: Another Obstacle for Women in Science: Men Get More Federal Grant Money (March 2019)
  • Northwestern Now: Women scientists get less federal funding than men (March 2019)

Romero, Daniel, Brian Uzzi and Jon Kleinberg. "Social Networks under Stress: Specialized Team Roles and Their Communication Structure". ACM Transactions on the Web, Vol 13(1), February 2019

• Media Hits:
  • eFinancialCareers: Hedge fund traders far less important than analysts and PMs, says study (February 2019)

Yang, Yang, Nitesh Chawla, and Brian Uzzi. "A network’s gender composition and communication pattern predict women’s leadership success". Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, January 2019. (PDF VERSION)

• Media Hits:
  • Poets & Quants: Supply Chain Icon Gives ‘Transformative’ Gift To Create Women’s Network (February 2021)
  • Kellogg School: Kellogg redoubles its efforts to accelerate the advancement of women in business with transformative gift from Ann Drake ’84 (February 2021)
  • Washington Post: Women ask for coffee, men tend to call in favors: Why pandemic networking is even harder for women (May 2020)
  • Quartz: To land top jobs, women need different types of networks than men (August 2019)
  • Psychology Today: What Kind of Network Predicts Success for Women MBA Grads? (June 2019)
  • Thrive Global: Why Women Need To Network Differently Than Men To Get Ahead (May 2019)
  • QRIUS: To land top jobs, women need different types of networks than men (April 2019)
  • Entrepreneur: Ladies, Here's How You Can Network To Attain Leadership Positions (April 2019)
  • Forbes: Women, Our Success May Rely On One Another (March 2019)
  • Forbes: Why Women Need To Network Differently Than Men To Get Ahead (March 2019)
  • Kellogg Insight: To Land Top Jobs, Women Need Different Types of Networks than Men (March 2019)
  • Inc.: This Simple Networking Trick Can Double How Much Women Make, According to a New Study of 4 Million Emails (March 2019)
  • Fortune: Broadsheet February 26 (February 2019)
  • Forbes: Why Having An 'Inner Circle' Is The Best Thing For Your Career (February 2019)
  • The Daily Northwestern: Women benefit from close-knit group of women in workplace, NU study says (February 2019)
  • Fast Company: Women need other women to get ahead in the workplace, says science (January 2019)
  • Chicago Tribune: Climbing the corporate ladder: Women need a female inner circle, men benefit from networking with everyone, study finds (January 2019)
  • Good Morning America: Women need to network differently than men to succeed, study finds (January 2019)
  • The Washington Post: Networking like a man isn’t enough. Successful women rely on other women to reach leadership roles, study finds (January 2019)
  • Wired: For Women Job Seekers, Networking Like a Man Isn't Enough (January 2019)
  • Inverse: To Land a Job, Women Need to Be Much Better Networkers Than Men, Study Says (January 2019)
  • Northwestern Now: Most successful women surround themselves with other women (January 2019)
  • Notre Dame News: Women, your inner circle may be key to gaining leadership roles (January 2019)
• Related Articles:
  • Women and Public Policy Program's Gender Action Portal (GAP: gap.hks.harvard.edu), 2020
  • Uzzi, Brian: "Research: Men and Women Need Different Kinds of Networks to Succeed". Harvard Business Review, February 2019

Ma, Yifang, Diego F.M. Oliveira, Teresa K. Woodruff, Brian Uzzi. "Women who win prizes get less money and prestige". Nature, January 2019. (PDF VERSION)

• Media Hits:
  • The Scientist: Can Prizes Help Women Shatter Science’s Glass Ceiling? (October 2019)
  • Kellogg Insight: How Big is the Gender Gap in Science Research Funding? (May 2019)
  • The Conversation: Minding the gender gap in science prizes (January 2019)
  • The Scientist: Women Who Win Science Prizes Earn Less Money, Prestige than Men (January 2019)
  • Globes: The scientist studying how scientific discovery comes about (Article written in Hebrew, January 2019. English translation)
• Related Articles:
  • Uzzi, Brian: "Research: Women Are Winning More Scientific Prizes, But Men Still Win the Most Prestigious Ones". Harvard Business Review, February 2019

Ma, Yifang, Brian Uzzi "The Scientific Prize Network Predicts Who Pushes the Boundaries of Science". Proceedings National Academy of Science, December 2018.

• Media Hits:
  • Chemistry World: The million dollar question (October 2018)
  • Nature: What the Nobels are — and aren’t — doing to encourage diversity (October 2018)

Mukherjee, Satyam, Yun Huang, Julia Neidhardt, Brian Uzzi, and Noshir Contractor. "Prior shared success predicts victory in team competitions". Nature Human Behaviour, December 2018. (PDF VERSION) (Author Correction on March 13, 2019)

• Media Hits:
  • Kellogg Insight: Take 5: What Business Leaders Can Learn from the World of Sports (March 2020)
  • Kellogg Insight: For Teams, What Matters More: Raw Talent or a History of Success Together? (June 2019)
  • The Wall Street Journal: The Key to Building a Successful Team (February 2019 - PDF VERSION)
  • Northwestern Engineering: In Team Sports, Chemistry Matters (December 2018)
  • How Communication Works: How Communication Helps Teams Win: Social Network Analysis (YouTube video, December 2018)
  • The London Economic: Is this the secret behind legendary seasons for teams such as Leicester City, Man City and Arsenal’s ‘invincibles’? (December 2018)
  • Phys Org: Sports analytics analysis reveals that past shared success among team members improves odds of future wins (December 2018)

Jin, Ginger Zhe, Benjamin Jones, Susan Feng Lu, and Brian Uzzi. "The Reverse Matthew Effect: Consequences of Retraction in Scientific Teams." Review of Economics and Statistics (November 2018).

• Media Hits:
  • Kellogg Insight: Who Gets Blamed When a Group Project Goes Wrong? (February 2019)
    

Azoulay, Pierre, Joshua Graff-Zivin, Brian Uzzi, Dashun Wang, Heidi Williams, James A. Evans, Ginger Zhe Jin, Susan Feng Lu, Benjamin F. Jones, Katy Börner, Karim R. Lakhani, Kevin J. Boudreau, Eva C. Guinan. "Toward a more scientific science". Science 361, September 2018.

Fortunato, Santo, Carl T. Bergstrom, Katy Börner, James A. Evans, Dirk Helbing, Staša Milojević, Alexander M. Petersen, Filippo Radicchi, Roberta Sinatra, Brian Uzzi, Alessandro Vespignani, Ludo Waltman, Dashun Wang, Albert-László Barabási. "Science of Science". Science 359, March 2018.

Singh, Pramesh, Jayaram Uparna, Panagiotis Karampourniotis, Emoke-Agnes Horvat, Boleslaw Szymanski, Gyorgy Korniss, Jonathan Z. Bakdash and Brian Uzzi. “Peer-to-Peer Lending and Bias in Crowd Decision-Making”. PlosOne 13(3), March 28, 2018.

Mukherjee, Satyam, Daniel Romero, Ben Jones, Brian Uzzi. "The Nearly Universal Link Between the Age of Past Knowledge and Tomorrow’s Breakthroughs in Science and Technology". Science Advances, April 2017.

• Media Hit:
  • The Christian Science Monitor: Breakthroughs arise from a precise mix of old and new knowledge, say scientists (April 2017)

Whalen, Ryan, Satyam Mukherjee, Brian Uzzi. "Common Law Evolution and Judicial Impact in the Age of Information". Elon Law Review, Vol 9, Issue 1, 2017.

Soderstrom, Sara B., Brian Uzzi, Derek D. Rucker, James H. Fowler, Daniel Diermeier. "Timing Matters: How Social Influence Affects Adoption Pre- and Post-Product Release". Sociological Science, DOI 10.15195/v3.a40, October 2016.

Bessi, Alessandro, Fabiana Zollo, Michela Del Vicario, Michelangelo Puliga, Antonio Scala, Guido Caldarelli, Brian Uzzi, Walter Quattrociocchi. "Users Polarization on Facebook and Youtube". PLoS ONE 11(8): e0159641, August 2016.

• Media Hit:
  • Quartz: Social media is polarizing users faster than ever (April 2017)
  • Kellogg Insight: The Surprising Speed with Which We Become Polarized Online (April 2017)

Liu, Bin, Ramesh Govindan and Brian Uzzi. "Do Emotions Expressed Online Correlate with Actual Changes in Decision-Making?: The Case of Stock Day Traders". PLoS ONE 11(1): e0144945, January 2016.

Romero, Daniel, Brian Uzzi and Jon Kleinberg. “Social Networks Under Stress” In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web. International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee, Republic and Canton of Geneva, CHE, April 2016.

• Scholarly Distinctions:
  • • Best Paper Prize 25th Intl Conference on World Wide Web

Whalen, Ryan, Yun Huang, Craig Tanis, Anup Sawant, Brian Uzzi, and Noshir Contractor. “Citation Distance: Measuring Changes in Scientific Search Strategies”. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web (WWW '16 Companion). International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee, Republic and Canton of Geneva, CHE, 419–423, April 2016.

Horvat, Agnes. E., Jay Uparna and Brian Uzzi. "Market- vs network relations: The role of friends in the early stages of bidding in crowdfunding." IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining Proceedings, 2015, 226-233.


Satyam Mukherjee, Brian Uzzi, Ben Jones, and Michael Stringer. “A New Method for Identifying Recombinations of Existing Knowledge Associated with High-Impact Innovation.” Journal of Product Innovation Management, 2015. doi: 10.1111/jpim.12294

Romero, Daniel, Roderick Swaab, Brian Uzzi, and Adam Galinsky. "Mimicry is Presidential: Linguistic Style Matching in Presidential Debates and Improved Polling Numbers.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, October 2015 vol. 41 no. 10 1311-1319.

• Media Hit:
  • New York Magazine: These Social-Science Nuggets Can Make You a Smarter Debate-Watcher (August 2015)
  • The Boston Globe: Debate tip: Follow your opponent’s lead (August 2015)
  • Pacific Standard: As My Esteemed Opponent Just Said... (August 2015)

Saavedra, Serguei, Luis J Gilarranz, Rudolf P Rohr, Michael Schnabel, Brian Uzzi and Jordi Bascompte. “Stock fluctuations are correlated and amplified across networks of interlocking directorates.” EPJ Data Science, 3:30, 2014.

Pandit, Saurav, Jonathan Koch, Yang Yang, Brian Uzzi, and Nitesh V. Chawla. “Red Black Network: Temporal and Topological Analysis of Two Intertwined Social Networks”. MILCOM 2013 - IEEE Military Communications Conference, 10 February 2014.

Csermely, Peter, Andres London, Ling.-Yun Wu and Brian Uzzi. "Structure and dynamics of core-periphery networks." J. Complex Networks, 2013. doi:10.1093/comnet/cnt016

Uzzi, Brian, Satyam Mukherjee, Michael Stringer, and Benjamin F. Jones. "Atypical Combinations and Scientific Impact." Science 342, 268-472, 2013.

• Scholarly Distinctions:
  • 2015 Star-Nelkin Science, Knowledge and Technology Award, American Sociological Association, Honorable Mention

Susan Lu, Ginger Zhe Jin, Brian Uzzi, and Benjamin F Jones. "The Retraction Penalty: Evidence from the Web of Science." Nature Scientific Reports, 2013.

Saavedra, Serguei, R. Dean Malmgren, Nicholas Switanek, and Brian Uzzi. "Foraging under conditions of short-term exploitative competition: the case of stock traders."  Proceedings of the British Royal Society B, vol. 280 no. 1755 2012290, 1471-2954, 2013.

• Media Hit:
  • The Scientist - Financial Foraging (February 2013)

Lancaster, Ryon and Brian Uzzi. "Legally Charged: Embeddedness and Profits in Large Law Firms." Sociological Focus, v45, Issue 1, 1-22, 2012.

Uzzi, Brian and Shannon Dunlap. "Make Your Enemies Your Allies," Harvard Business Review, 133-138, May 2012.

• Reprinted in:
  • "How to Work with Toxic Colleagues", Harvard Business Review OnPoint Magazine, August 2016

Saavedra, Serguei, Daniel Stouffer, Brian Uzzi, and Jordi Bascompte. "Strong contributors to network persistence are the most vulnerable to extinction," Nature, 478, 233–235, October 2011. doi:10.1038/nature10433

• Scholarly Distinctions:
  • Received the Vanguard Award for Science - 3rd best piece of scientific research in Spain, 2012.
• Media Hit:
  • University of Canterbury - Predicting the risk of failure in nature and business (September 2011)

Wuchty, Stefan and Brian Uzzi. "Human Communication Dynamics: A Study of the Agreement between Self-reported and Email Derived Social Networks,"PLoS ONE 6(11): e26972. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026972, 2011.

• Media Hits:
  • Toronto Star - Email study shows how we treat friends and strangers (December 2011)
  • The Wall Street Journal - Why You Didn't Hit 'Reply' (December 2011)
  • The Wall Street Journal - E-Mail Separates Friends from Acquaintances (December 2011)
  • Boston Globe - Choose your sign-off (December 2011)
  • LifeHacker - Speed Of Email Response Reflects How Well You Know The Sender (December 2011)
  • Science - E-mail Reveals Your Closest Friends (November 2011)

Saavedra, Serguei, Jordi Duch, and Brian Uzzi. "Tracking traders’ understanding of the market using e-communication data," PLoS ONE 6(10): e26705.doi:10.1371/journal.pone. 0026705, 2011

Saavedraa, Serguei, Kathleen Hagerty, and Brian Uzzi. "Synchronicity, instant messaging, and performance among financial traders", Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2011: 1018462108v1-201018462

• Media Hits:
  • The Wall Street Journal - "Herds on the Street: Why messaging traders are like scared fish" (March 2011)
  • Science - "The Strange Symphony of the Stock Traders" (March 2011)
  • U.S. News and World Reports - "Jumping on the Bandwagon Brings Rewards" (March 2011)
  • Bloomberg - "Cicada-Like Traders Moving in Sync Have Greater Gains, Researchers Say" (March 2011)
  • Kellogg Insight - "Synchronicity Pays: Instant messaging helps traders buy and sell at the right time" (March 2011)
  • Ars Technica - "Successful day traders stay in the black by syncing up via IM" (March 2011)

Saavedra, Serguei, Brian Uzzi and Felix Reed-Tsochas. "More on Bipartite Networks and Cooperation in Ecological and Organizational Networks."  In Felix Reed Tsochas and Neil Johnson (eds.) Complex Systems and Interdisciplinary Sciences. London: World Scientific Publishing, 2011.

Börner, Katy, Noshir Contractor, Holly Falk-Krzesinski, Stephen Fiore, Kara Hall, Joann Keyton, Bonnie Spring, Daniel Stokols, William Trochim and Brian Uzzi. "A Multi-Level Systems Perspective for the Science of Team Science," Science Translational Medicine, 2010, Volume 2, Issue 49.

Falk-Krzesinski, Holly, Katy Börner, Noshir Contractor, Stephen M. Fiore, Kara L. Hall, Joann Keyton, Bonnie Spring, Daniel Stokols, William Trochim, and Brian Uzzi. "Advancing the Science of Team Science," CTS JOURNAL, Vol 3 (5), 2010.

Rivera, Mark, Sara Soderstrom, Brian Uzzi. "Dynamics of Dyads in Social Networks: Assortative, Relational, and Proximity Mechanisms,"  Annual Review of Sociology. 91-115, 2010. 

Saavedra, Serguei, Felix Reed-Tsochas, and Brian Uzzi. "A simple model of bipartite cooperation for ecological and organizational networks," Nature, 2009, 457:463-466.

• Supplementary Information:

Jones, Ben, Stefan Wuchty, and Brian Uzzi. "Multi-university Research Teams: Shifting Impact, Geography, and Stratification in Science,"  Science, 2008, 322: 1259-1262

• Media Hits:
  • The New Yorker - Groupthink (January 2012)
  • Co.Design - The Brainstorming Process Is B.S. But Can We Rework It? (January 2012)
  • Nature - "Group Theory: What makes a successful team?" (October 2008)

Saavedra, Serguei, Felix Reed-Tsochas, and Brian Uzzi. "Asymmetric Disassembly and Robustness in Declining Networks," Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Fall 2008, 105:16466-16471.

Uzzi, Brian. "A Social Network's Changing Statistical Properties and the Quality of Human Innovation," Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, June 2008, Vol. 41 Number 22, 224023 (12pgs)

Wuchty, Stefan, Ben Jones, and Brian Uzzi. "Science Commentary: Why Do Team-Authored Papers Get Cited More?" Science, September 2007, 317: 1496-1498

• Media Hits:
  • Northwestern University Office of Research Annual Report: "Modern Genius Found in Teams, Not Individuals" (2007)
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education: "It's Teamwork, Not Solos, That Makes for Discoveries, Research Finds" (April 2007)
  • Observer: "The Rise in Collaborative Psychological Science" (October 2007)

Uzzi, Brian, Luis Amaral, and Felix Reed-Tsochas. "Small-World Networks and Management Science Research: a Review," European Management Review, Summer 2007, 4: 77–91

Amaral, Luis and Brian Uzzi. "Complex Systems- A New Paradigm for the Integrative Study of Management, Physical, and Technological Systems," Management Science, June 2007, 53:1033–1035.

Wuchty, Stefan, Ben Jones, and Brian Uzzi. "The Increasing Dominance of Teams in the Production of Knowledge," Science, May 2007, 316:1036-1039.

• Media Hit:
  • Observer: "The Rise in Collaborative Psychological Science" (October 2007)

Uzzi, Brian and Jarrett Spiro. "Collaboration and Creativity: The Small World Problem," American Journal of Sociology, Sept 2005, 111:447-504.

• Scholarly Distinctions:
  • Received the W. Richard Scott Best Paper Prize, 2008
• Media Hits:
  • Washington Examiner: A dash of fresh blood (June 2022)
  • Medium: What Broadway Musicals Teach Us About Creative Collaboration (January 2018)
  • Fortune - The real way to build a social network (January 2012)
  • The New Yorker - Groupthink (January 2011)
  • National Public Radio Interview: "Collaboration and Creativity" (June 2005)
  • Newsweek International: "True Teamworks" (April 2005)
• Reprinted in:
  • Organizational Network Research. Eds. Martin Kilduff and Andrew V. Shipilov. SAGE Publications, 2011.

Uzzi, Brian and Shannon Dunlap. "How To Build Your Network," Harvard Business Review, December 2005, Vol. 83 Issue 12, p53-60.

• Media Hits:
  • Business Digest: "The Invaluable Benefits of Personal Networks" - English Version | French Version (January 2007)
• Reprinted in:
  • Harvard Business Review OnPoint, Winter 2011, 104-111

Guimera, Roger, Brian Uzzi, Jarrett Spiro, and Luis A. Nunes Amaral. "Team Assembly Mechanisms Determine Collaboration Network Structure and Team Performance," Science, 2005, 308:697-702.

• Media Hits:
  • Kellogg World Frontpage: "Team Dreamer" (October 2005)
  • National Public Radio Interview: "Collaboration and Creativity" (June 2005)
  • New Scientist: "Receipe for Building Dream Team Revealed" (May 2005)
  • Newsweek International: "True Teamworks" (April 2005)
  • Science: "The Emergence of Creative Enterprise" (April 2005)
  • Handelsblatt (April 2005)
  • Investor's Daily: "Managing for Success" (June 2005)
  • Nature: "Highlight of Science" (May 2005)
  • London Times: "Dream Team" (May 2005)

Uzzi, Brian and Ryon Lancaster. "Embeddedness and Price Formation in the Corporate Law Market," American Sociological Review, June 2004, v69: 319-344.

• Scholarly Distinctions:
  • Received the W. Richard Scott Best Paper Prize, 2006
• Reprinted in:
  • "Social Capital in Business," London: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2011

Uzzi, Brian and Ryon Lancaster. "Relational Embeddedness and Learning: The Case of Bank Loan Managers and Their Clients," Management Science, 2003, v 49: 383-399.

• Reprinted in:
  • "Social Capital in Business," London: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2011

UzzI, Brian and James Gillespie. "Knowledge Spillover in Corporate Financing Networks: Embeddedness, Network Transitivity and Trade Credit Performance," Strategic Management Journal, 2002, v23:595-618.

Uzzi, Brian. "Embeddedness in the Making of Financial Capital: How Social Relations and Networks Benefit Firms Seeking Finance," American Sociological Review, 1999, v64: 481-505.

• Scholarly Distinctions:
  • Received the W. Richard Scott Best Paper Prize, 2002
• Translated into Chinese

Uzzi, Brian and Zoe Barsness. "Contingent Employment in British Establishments: Organizational Determinants of the Use of Fixed-term and Part-time Workers," Social Forces, 1998, v76: 967-1006.

Uzzi, Brian."Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks: The Paradox of Embeddedness," Administrative Science Quarterly, March 1997, 42:35-67.

• Scholarly Distinctions:
  • Received the Administrative Science Quarterly Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award, 2003
  • Ranked 3rd most "interesting paper" in management in the last 100 years by the 67 Member of the 2005 AMJ editorial Board
• Translated into Chinese

Uzzi, Brian. "Towards a Network Perspective on Organizational Decline," The International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 1997, v17: 111-155.

• Scholarly Distinctions:
  • Received the James D. Thompson Best Paper Award, 1993

Uzzi, Brian. "The Sources and Consequences of Embeddedness for the Economic Performance of Organizations: The Network Effect," American Sociological Review, 1996, v61(4): 674-698.

• Scholarly Distinctions:
  • Most cited article in ASR in the 1990s
  • Received the Louis R. Pondy Best Paper Dissertation Prize, 1994
  • Received the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Best Conference Paper Prize, 1993
• Translated into Russian, Russian Journal of Management (2009)

Etzkowitz, Henry, Carol Kemelgor, Michael Neusthatz, and Brian Uzzi. "The Paradox of Critical Mass for Women in Science," Science, 1994, 226:51-55.

Davis-Blake, Alison and Brian Uzzi. "Determinants of Employment Externalization: The Case of Temporary Workers and Independent Contractors," Administrative Science Quarterly, 1993, 38: 195-223.

Forbes Column

Uzzi, Brian. "Not Sure Where To Start With Your AI Strategy? Here Are 3 Steps", Forbes, December 2023.

Uzzi, Brian. "Will AI Kill Human Creativity? What Fake Drake Tells Us About What’s Ahead", Forbes, May 2023.

Uzzi, Brian. "Twitter Is “Running A Musk". Forbes, December 2022

Uzzi, Brian. "Elon Musk Loves Karl Marx - Here’s Why", Forbes, October 2022

Uzzi, Brian. "Automation Is Critical For Your Business - But Use With Care (Part One)", Forbes, June 2022

Uzzi, Brian. "Ready For The Metaverse? Here’s How We Can Make The Most Of It, Safely", Forbes, March 2022

Uzzi, Brian. "The Bad News, Good News, Bad News About COVID’s Impact On Scientific Research". Forbes, November 2021

Uzzi, Brian. "3 Ways AI Can Help You Improve Diversity". Forbes, June 2021

Uzzi, Brian. "Making AI And Analytics Work For Your Business: A Q&A With Eric Anderson". Forbes, March 2021

Uzzi, Brian. "4 Ways To Bridge The AI-Integrity Gap". Forbes, February 2021

Uzzi, Brian. "AI Emerges As A Major Player In The Race To Find Covid-19 Therapies And Vaccines". Forbes, June 2020

Uzzi, Brian. "A Crystal Ball For Predicting Terrorist Effectiveness? We Created One". Forbes, November 2019

Uzzi, Brian. "When Mind Meets Machine: How AI Can Boost Your Creativity". Forbes, May 2019

Uzzi, Brian. "How Olay's AI-Powered Consultation Disrupts The Cosmetics Industry". Forbes, May 2019

Uzzi, Brian. "You Can Expect More Hyper-Personal AI Applications". Forbes, March 2019.
 

Popular Press Articles

Jin, Ching and Brian Uzzi. "Evaluating the Role of Scientific Awards". Physics 14, 144, October 2021

Uzzi, Brian. "3 Ways AI Can Help You Improve Diversity". Kellogg Insight, August 2021 (reprint of Forbes article)

Uzzi, Brian. "A Simple Tactic That Could Help Reduce Bias in AI". Harvard Business Review, November 2020

Uzzi, Brian. "Research: Men and Women Need Different Kinds of Networks to Succeed". Harvard Business Review, February 2019

Uzzi, Brian. "Research: Women Are Winning More Scientific Prizes, But Men Still Win the Most Prestigious Ones". Harvard Business Review, February 2019

Uzzi, Brian. "How AI could make your life easier this year". CNN Business Perspectives, January 2019

Uzzi, Brian. "Conversations Spark Connections as Scientists Search for Inspiration in Other Fields". Science, July 2018

Pah, Adam, Brian Uzzi and Rebecca Hinds. "A Study of Thousands of Dropbox Projects Reveals How Successful Teams Collaborate". Harvard Business Review, July 2018

Uzzi, Brian. "How to Navigate the Politics of an Innovation Project". Harvard Business Review, November 2017

Uzzi, Brian. "How Human-Machine Learning Partnerships Can Reduce Unconscious Bias". Entrepreneur, July 2016

Uzzi, Brian. “This Can Be Hillary Clinton's Secret Weapon In Tonight’s Debate”. Fortune, March 2016

Uzzi, Brian. “Everyone Will Tweet About This Ad On Super Bowl Sunday”. Fortune, February 2016.

Cerf, Moran and Brian Uzzi. "How Humans Plus Machines Will Equal Amazing Advancements". Entrepreneur, February 2016

Uzzi, Brian. " Great Leaders Can Think Like Each Member of Their Team". Harvard Business Review, July 2015

Uzzi, Brian and Shannon Dunlap. "Make Your Enemies Your Allies," Harvard Business Review, May 2012.