Research
Driving New Insights About Scientific Discovery
At the heart of CSSI is our groundbreaking work studying scientific process and research throughout the ages. Together, this unique community of collaborators is unearthing new insights that are already influencing opportunities and developments for academia, government, business and science around the world. Our work is constantly evolving with many new experiments currently underway.
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Featured CSSI Research
Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology
One of the most universal trends in science and technology today is the growth of large teams in all areas, as solitary researchers and small teams diminish in prevalence.
Toward a More Scientific Science
Members of the CSSI team discuss how today’s practices, policies and resources are still rooted in traditions and intuitions rather than evidence, and why we must work to do better.
Emergence of scaling in complex substitutive systems
Here we find that, for subjects ranging from mobile handsets to automobiles and from smartphone apps to scientific fields, early growth patterns follow a power law with non-integer exponents.
Quantifying Long-Term Scientific Impact
The CSSI team developed a mechanistic model to explore the long-term predictability of citation patterns, the results of which indicate that all papers tend to follow the same universal temporal pattern.
The evolution of citation graphs in artificial intelligence research
As artificial intelligence (AI) applications see wider deployment, it becomes increasingly important to study the social and societal implications of AI adoption.
A century of physics
An analysis of Web of Science data spanning more than 100 years reveals the rapid growth and increasing multidisciplinarity of physics — as well its internal map of subdisciplines.
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The people think what I think: False consensus and unelected elite misperception of public opinion
American Journal of Political Science, 30 Jan 2024
InnovationInsights: A Visual Analytics Approach for Understanding the Dual Frontiers of Science and Technology
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 25 Oct 2023
Identify hidden spreaders of pandemic over contact tracing network
Nature, 19 Jul 2023
SciSciNet: A large-scale open data lake for the science of science research
Scientific Data, 01 Jun 2023
Data, measurement and empirical methods in the science of science
Nature Human Behavior, 01 Jun 2023
The promise and pitfalls of the metaverse for science
Nature Human Behavior, 18 May 2023