Chu, Johan SG, and James Evans. “Too many papers? Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science.” (2018). Read here
Jeremiah Milbauer, Adarsh Mathew, James Evans. 2021. “Discovering Multidimensional Worldview and Ideological Differences.” EMNLP
CChu, Johan SG, and James Evans. “Too many papers? Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science.” (2018). Read here
Graziul, Chris, Alexander Belikov, Ishanu Chattopadyay, Ziwen Chen, Hongbo Fang, Anuraag Girdhar, Xiaoshuang Jia, PM Krafft, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Candice Lewis, Chen Liang, John Muchovej, Alejandro Vientós, Meg Young, James Evans. 2020. “Does Big Data Serve Policy? Not Without Context. An Experiment with in silico Social Science”. 2021. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory.
Evans, James. “Social computing unhinged.” Journal of Social Computing 1, no. 1 (2020): 1. Read here
Evans, James, and Adrian Johns. “The New Rules of Knowledge: An Introduction.” Critical Inquiry 46, no. 4 (2020): 806-812. Read here
Wu, Sarah A., Rose E. Wang, James A. Evans, Josh Tenenbaum, David C. Parkes, and Max Kleiman-Weiner. “Too many cooks: Coordinating multi-agent collaboration through inverse planning.” In CogSci. 2020. Read here
Kang, Donghyun, and James Evans. “Against method: Exploding the boundary between qualitative and quantitative studies of science.” Quantitative Science Studies 1, no. 3 (2020): 930-944. Read here
Wu, Lingfei, Linzhuo Li, and James Evans. “Social connection induces cultural contraction: Evidence from hyperbolic embeddings of social and semantic networks.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.10216 (2018). Read here
Yu, Haizi, Heinrich Taube, James A. Evans, and Lav R. Varshney. “Human Evaluation of Interpretability: The Case of AI-Generated Music Knowledge.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.06894 (2020). Read here
Yin, Yian, Yang Wang, James A. Evans, and Dashun Wang. “Quantifying the dynamics of failure across science, startups and security.” Nature 575, no. 7781 (2019): 190-194. Read here
Evans, James, and Jacob G. Foster. “Computation and the sociological imagination.” Contexts 18, no. 4 (2019): 10-15. Read here
Kozlowski, Austin C., Matt Taddy, and James A. Evans. “The geometry of culture: Analyzing the meanings of class through word embeddings.” American Sociological Review 84, no. 5 (2019): 905-949. Read here
Danchev, Valentin, Andrey Rzhetsky, and James A. Evans. “Meta-Research: Centralized scientific communities are less likely to generate replicable results.” Elife 8 (2019): e43094. Read here
Sengupta, Nandana, Nati Srebro, and James Evans. “Simple surveys: Response retrieval inspired by recommendation systems.” Social Science Computer Review 39, no. 1 (2021): 105-129. Read here
Wu, Lingfei, Dashun Wang, and James A. Evans. “Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology.” Nature 566, no. 7744 (2019): 378-382. Read here
McMahan, Peter, and James Evans. “Ambiguity and engagement.” American Journal of Sociology 124, no. 3 (2018): 860-912. Read here
Shi, Feng, Misha Teplitskiy, Eamon Duede, and James A. Evans. “The wisdom of polarized crowds.” Nature human behaviour 3, no. 4 (2019): 329-336. Read here
Asoodeh, Shahab, Tingran Gao, and James Evans. “Curvature of hypergraphs via multi-marginal optimal transport.” In 2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 1180-1185. IEEE, 2018. Read here
Gao, Tingran, Shahab Asoodeh, Yi Huang, and James Evans. “Wasserstein soft label propagation on hypergraphs: Algorithm and generalization error bounds.” In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 33, no. 01, pp. 3630-3637. 2019. Read here
Börner, Katy, Olga Scrivner, Mike Gallant, Shutian Ma, Xiaozhong Liu, Keith Chewning, Lingfei Wu, and James A. Evans. “Skill discrepancies between research, education, and jobs reveal the critical need to supply soft skills for the data economy.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, no. 50 (2018): 12630-12637. Read here
Azoulay, Pierre, Joshua Graff-Zivin, Brian Uzzi, Dashun Wang, Heidi Williams, James A. Evans, Ginger Zhe Jin et al. “Toward a more scientific science.” Science 361, no. 6408 (2018): 1194-1197. Read here
Teplitskiy, Misha, Daniel Acuna, Aïda Elamrani-Raoult, Konrad Körding, and James Evans. “The sociology of scientific validity: How professional networks shape judgement in peer review.” Research Policy 47, no. 9 (2018): 1825-1841. Read here
Gerow, Aaron, Yuening Hu, Jordan Boyd-Graber, David M. Blei, and James A. Evans. “Measuring discursive influence across scholarship.” Proceedings of the national academy of sciences 115, no. 13 (2018): 3308-3313. Read here
Katariya, Sumeet, Lalit Jain, Nandana Sengupta, James Evans, and Robert Nowak. “Adaptive sampling for coarse ranking.” In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, pp. 1839-1848. PMLR, 2018. Read here
Fortunato, Santo, Carl T. Bergstrom, Katy Börner, James A. Evans, Dirk Helbing, Staša Milojević, Alexander M. Petersen et al. “Science of science.” Science 359, no. 6379 (2018). Read here
Shi, Feng, Yongren Shi, Fedor A. Dokshin, James A. Evans, and Michael W. Macy. “Millions of online book co-purchases reveal partisan differences in the consumption of science.” Nature Human Behaviour 1, no. 4 (2017): 1-9. Read here
Tibshirani, Robert. “Regression shrinkage and selection via the lasso.” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Methodological) 58, no. 1 (1996): 267-288. Read here
Tutterow, Craig, and James A. Evans. “Reconciling the small effect of rankings on university performance with the transformational cost of conformity.” In The university under pressure. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2016. Read here
Rzhetsky, Andrey, Jacob G. Foster, Ian T. Foster, and James A. Evans. “Choosing experiments to accelerate collective discovery.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, no. 47 (2015): 14569-14574. Read here
Foster, Jacob G., Andrey Rzhetsky, and James A. Evans. “Tradition and innovation in scientists’ research strategies.” American Sociological Review 80, no. 5 (2015): 875-908. Read here
Shi, Feng, Jacob G. Foster, and James A. Evans. “Weaving the fabric of science: Dynamic network models of science’s unfolding structure.” Social Networks 43 (2015): 73-85. Read here
Yao, Lixia, Ying Li, Soumitra Ghosh, James A. Evans, and Andrey Rzhetsky. “Health ROI as a measure of misalignment of biomedical needs and resources.” Nature biotechnology 33, no. 8 (2015): 807-811. Read here
Gerow, Aaron, Bowen Lou, Eamon Duede, and James Evans. “Proposing ties in a dense hypergraph of academics.” In International Conference on Social Informatics, pp. 209-226. Springer, Cham, 2015. Read here
Zhang, Jingwei, Aaron Gerow, Jaan Altosaar, James Evans, and Richard Jean So. “Fast, flexible models for discovering topic correlation across weakly-related collections.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.04562 (2015). Read here
Foster, Jacob G., and James A. Evans. “Promiscuous inventions.” Beyond the Meme: Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution 22 (2019). Read here
Weinberger, Cody J., James A. Evans, and Stefano Allesina. “Ten simple (empirical) rules for writing science.” (2015): e1004205. Read here
Blair, David R., Kanix Wang, Svetlozar Nestorov, James A. Evans, and Andrey Rzhetsky. “Quantifying the impact and extent of undocumented biomedical synonymy.” PLoS computational biology 10, no. 9 (2014): e1003799. Read here
Gerow, Aaron, and James Evans. “The modular community structure of linguistic predication networks.” In Proceedings of TextGraphs-9: the workshop on Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing, pp. 48-55. 2014. Read here
Wang, Jialei, Nathan Srebro, and James Evans. “Active collaborative permutation learning.” In Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, pp. 502-511. 2014. Read here
Vilhena, Daril A., Jacob G. Foster, Martin Rosvall, Jevin D. West, James Evans, and Carl T. Bergstrom. “Finding cultural holes: How structure and culture diverge in networks of scholarly communication.” Sociological Science 1 (2014): 221. Read here
Macal, Charles M., Michael J. North, Nicholson Collier, Vanja M. Dukic, Duane T. Wegener, Michael Z. David, Robert S. Daum et al. “Modeling the transmission of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a dynamic agent-based simulation.” Journal of translational medicine 12, no. 1 (2014): 1-12. Read here
Evans, James A., Jae-Mahn Shim, and John PA Ioannidis. “Attention to local health burden and the global disparity of health research.” PloS one 9, no. 4 (2014): e90147. Read here
Evans, James A. “Future science.” science 342, no. 6154 (2013): 44-45. Read here
Evans, James A. “Communication and the evolution of cognition.” Developing scaffolding in evolution, cognition and culture. MIT Press, Cambridge (2014): 125-146. Read here
Macal, Charles M., Michael J. North, Nicholson Collier, Vanja M. Dukic, Diane S. Lauderdale, Michael Z. David, Robert S. Daum et al. “Modeling the spread of community-associated MRSA.” In Proceedings of the 2012 Winter simulation conference (WSC), pp. 1-12. IEEE, 2012. Read here
Rzhetsky, Andrey, and James A. Evans. “War of ontology worlds: mathematics, computer code, or Esperanto?.” PLoS computational biology 7, no. 9 (2011): e1002191. Read here
Divoli, Anna, Eneida A. Mendonça, James A. Evans, and Andrey Rzhetsky. “Conflicting biomedical assumptions for mathematical modeling: the case of cancer metastasis.” PLoS computational biology 7, no. 10 (2011): e1002132. Read here
Evans, James A., and Jacob G. Foster. “Metaknowledge.” Science 331, no. 6018 (2011): 721-725. Read here
Evans, James A., and Andrey Rzhetsky. “Advancing science through mining libraries, ontologies, and communities.” Journal of Biological Chemistry 286, no. 27 (2011): 23659-23666. Read here
Yao, Lixia, Anna Divoli, Ilya Mayzus, James A. Evans, and Andrey Rzhetsky. “Benchmarking ontologies: bigger or better?.” PLoS computational biology 7, no. 1 (2011): e1001055. Read here
Evans, James A. “Industry collaboration, scientific sharing, and the dissemination of knowledge.” Social Studies of Science 40, no. 5 (2010): 757-791. Read here
Evans, James A. “Industry induces academic science to know less about more.” American Journal of Sociology 116, no. 2 (2010): 389-452. Read here
Evans, James, and Andrey Rzhetsky. “Machine science.” Science 329, no. 5990 (2010): 399-400. Read here
Evans, James A. “Chapter Six. Nonprofit Research Institutes: From Companies without Products to Universities without Students.” In Politics and Partnerships, pp. 151-182. University of Chicago Press, 2010. Read here
Yao, Lixia, James A. Evans, and Andrey Rzhetsky. “Novel opportunities for computational biology and sociology in drug discovery: Corrected paper.” Trends in biotechnology 28, no. 4 (2010): 161-170. Read here
Evans, James A., and Jacob Reimer. “Open access and global participation in science.” Science 323, no. 5917 (2009): 1025-1025. Read here
Evans, James A. “Electronic publication and the narrowing of science and scholarship.” science 321, no. 5887 (2008): 395-399. Read here
Evans, James A. “Start-ups in science: Entrepreneurs, diverse backing, and novelty outside business.” In The sociology of entrepreneurship. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2007. Read here
Evans, James A., Gideon Kunda, and Stephen R. Barley. “Beach time, bridge time, and billable hours: The temporal structure of technical contracting.” Administrative Science Quarterly 49, no. 1 (2004): 1-38. Read here
Kunda, Gideon, Stephen R. Barley, and James Evans. “Why do contractors contract? The experience of highly skilled technical professionals in a contingent labor market.” ILR Review 55, no. 2 (2002): 234-261. Read here
Working Papers (*Currently Under Review)
Danchev, Valentin, Andrey Rzhetsky & James Evans. 2017. “Centralized communities more likely generate non-replicable results.”* arxiv.org:1801.05042
Teplitskiy, Misha, Julianne St. Onge & James Evans. 2015. “How Firm is Sociological Knowledge? Reanalysis of GSS findings with alternative models and out–of–sample data, 1972–2012.”
Labutov, Igor, Hod Lipson & James Evans. 2015. “Machine Teaching.”*
Acuna, Daniel E, Misha Teplitskiy, James Evans & Konrad Kording. 2015. “Should journals allow authors to suggest reviewers?”*
Foster, Jacob, Feng Shi and James Evans. 2017. “Measuring Novelty by Simulating Discovery.”*
Kozlowski, Austin and James Evans. “The Geometry of Culture: Analyzing Meaning through Word Embeddings”* arxiv.org:1803.09288
Sengupta, Nandana, Nathan Srebro and James Evans. 2018. “Simple Surveys: Response Retrieval Inspired by Recommendation Systems.”* arxiv.org.
Sengupta, Nandana, Madeleine Udell, Nathan Srebro and James Evans. 2018. “Matrix Factorization for Missing Value Imputation.”*
Reports
Frodeman, Robert, J. Britt Holbrook, et al. 2012 “The Promise and Perils of Transformative Research.” Summary report of workshop ‘Transformative Research: Ethical and Societal Implications’ held in Arlington, VA March 8 & 9. Exclusively contributed “Stable Scientific Strategies and the Unexamined Frontier of Knowledge.”
Lane, Julia et al. 2011 “Changing the Conduct of Science in the Information Age.” Summary Report of workshop, organized by the Office of International Science and Engineering of the National Science Foundation held in Artlington, VA November 12, 2010. Exclusively contributed “Identification and the Complex System of Research.”