Knowledge Lab

Political Echo Chambers in the Consumption of Science

Reader preferences for liberal or conservative political books also attract them to different types of science books.
Skill discrepancies between research, education and jobs reveal the critical need to supply soft skills for the data economy

Here we analyze and visualize the dynamic skill (mis-)alignment between academia, industry and educational offerings.
Team expansion and paradigm stabilization: large teams develop science and technology, small teams disrupt it

We analyzed teamwork from more than 65 million papers, patents and software products over 100 years.
Improving the allocation of biomedical research resources with big data

Here, we present a health research opportunity index (health ROI) to measure the misalignment of biomedical needs and resources.

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Idea Generativity

What makes some ideas long-lived and highly generative?
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Coevolution of Organizations and Ideas: Knowledge Creation and Transmission

Lynne G. Zucker
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Cognitive and Evolutionary Foundations of Science

How are these average apes able to generate reliable, cumulative knowledge about reality?
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Beagle: A tool that empowers individuals and teams to organize and share scientific insights

Edward S. Boyden
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Mapping the Social and Technological Context of Cultural Production

Cesar A. Hidalgo
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Metaknowledge Grants

New data-driven metaknowledge projects about how ideas are formed and circulate
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