NEWS
Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science
Examining billions of citations among nearly a hundred million papers across all fields, we find a deluge of papers leads to a slowing of ideas and the ossification of canon.
Pros and Cons of casting Web of Science into a graph database
Should you choose a graph database over a MySQL counterpart for your dataset of interest? How to cast your dataset into a graph schema?
James Evans on Social Computing and Diversity by Design
Listen to Complexity, at the Santa Fe Institute for a conversation with James Evans on Social computing and diversity by Design
Journal of Social Computing Launch
Launch of new IEEE journal: the Journal of Social Computing (jOsOcO)
Knowledge Lab team wins the IRIS Researcher Award
Prof. James Evans, Brendan Chambers and Donghyun Kang were awarded the IRIS Researcher Award for 2020-2021
Analysis of Wikipedia finds politically polarized teams produce better work
The Knowledge Lab analyzed more than 200,000 Wikipedia pages
Bigger teams aren’t always better in science and tech
Analysis of 65 million projects finds smaller teams produce more innovative research