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Citizen Science in Agri-Food Systems: Lessons and Recommendations

We organized an innovative workshop to foster knowledge exchange among diverse practitioners of citizen…

agri-food system, agriculture, Citizen science, food, public participation, science funding
Person looking at code on laptop
  • Sociology

Understanding the Changing Structure of Scientific Inquiry

A growing body of evidence indicates that research teams are increasing in size across…

Published: January 02, 2016
collaboration, knowledge accumulation, research portfolio diversification
People shaking hands over laptops and paperwork
  • Sociology

Academic Entrepreneurship: The Roles of Identity, Motivation, Championing, Educa …

Most studies of academic entrepreneurship are based on ideas and tools from fields such…

Published: February 01, 2018
academic entrepreneurship, micro-level processes, organizational behavior
Overview of people sitting at tables in a cafe like environment
  • Sociology

Can Innovators be Created? Experimental Evidence from an Innovation Contest

Existing theories and empirical research on how innovation occurs largely assume that innovativeness is…

Published: February 01, 2018
contest, Induced innovation, innovation theory
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  • Sociology
  • Technology

Data-Driven Predictions in the Science of Science

Increasingly detailed data about scientific research raise the possibility of predicting the future direction…

Published: February 02, 2017
discovery, predictability, science of science
  • Sociology
  • Technology

Emergence of Collaboration Networks Around Large Scale Data Repositories: A Stud …

To explore the impact of scientific collaboration and large-scale repositories in the field of…

Published: May 09, 2016
collaboration, genomics, metadata, network analysis
Person holding pen with clipboard
  • Sociology

Intellectual Synthesis in Mentorship Determines Success in Academic Careers

As academic careers become more competitive, junior scientists need to understand the value that…

Published: February 28, 2018
intellectual synthesis, mentorship, scientific community
Lines of colorful generic code
  • Sociology

Reproducible Research in Linguistics: A Position Statement on Data Citation and …

This is a position statement from 50 linguistic scientists calling for radically increased reproducibility…

Published: March 23, 2018
attribution, data citation, reproducibility
Graphs depicting Canonical Faculty Productivity
  • Sociology

The Misleading Narrative of the Canonical Faculty Productivity Trajectory

In a study of the timing of over 200,000 publications by professors in Computer…

Published: September 18, 2017
career trajectory, computer science, data analysis, productivity, sociology
Person presenting sticky notes to two colleagues
  • Sociology

The Pace of Change and Creative Performance: Specialist and Generalist Mathemati …

Creativity is a crucial ingredient of firms’ success. By promoting the creativity of their…

Published: April 01, 2018
creative performance, generalists, specialists, theoretical mathematics
This project is funded by an NSF grant, and administered by The Fung Institute of UC Berkeley.

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