June 29, 2020

Quantifying Policy Responses to a Global Emergency: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic→

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Jian Gao, Yian Yin, Benjamin F. Jones, and Dashun Wang (2020). arXiv.

May 27, 2020

Unequal Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Scientists→

May 27, 2020/ ScienceSites

Kyle R. Myers, Wei Yang Tham, Yian Yin, Nina Cohodes, Jerry G. Thursby, Marie C. Thursby, Peter E. Schiffer, Joseph T. Wals, Karim R. Lakhani, and Dashun Wang (2020). Nature Human Behaviour.

April 22, 2020

Scientific Elite Revisited: Patterns of Productivity, Collaboration, Authorship and Impact→

April 22, 2020/ ScienceSites

Jichao Li, Yian Yin, Santo Fortunato, and Dashun Wang (2020). Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 17: 20200135

February 20, 2020

If You Want Creative Solutions, Keep Your Team Small (PDF)→

February 20, 2020/ ScienceSites

Jeanne Brett and Dashun Wang (2020). Scientific American.

January 30, 2020

Revealing the Predictability of Intrinsic Structure in Complex Networks→

January 30, 2020/ ScienceSites

Jiachen Sun, Ling Feng, Jiarong Xie, Xiao Ma, Dashun Wang, and Yanqing Hu (2020). Nature Communications, 11, 574.

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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.
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• 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.
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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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Unequal Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Scientists→

Scientific Elite Revisited: Patterns of Productivity, Collaboration, Authorship and Impact→

If You Want Creative Solutions, Keep Your Team Small (PDF)→

Revealing the Predictability of Intrinsic Structure in Complex Networks→

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