Dashun Wang is an Associate Professor at Kellogg School of Management and the founding director of the Center for Science of Science and Innovation, Northwestern University, Illinois. He is a recipient of the AFOSR Young Investigator Award and was named Poets and Quants Best 40 Under 40 Business School Professors in 2019.
Introduction
Part I. The Science of Career: 1. Productivity of a scientist
2. The H Index
3. The Matthew Effect
4. Age and Scientific Achievement
5. Random Impact Rule
6. The Q Factor
7. Hot Streaks
Part II. The Science of Collaboration: 8. The increasing dominance of teams in science
9. The Invisible College
10. Coauthorship Networks
11. Team Assembly
12. Small and large teams
13. Scientific Credit
14. Credit Allocation
Part III. The Science of Impact: 15. Big Science
16. Citation Disparity
17. High Impact Papers
18. Scientific Impact
19. The Time Dimension of Science
20. Ultimate Impact
Part IV. Outlook: 21. Can Science be Accelerated?
22. Artificial Intelligence
23. Bias and Causality in Science
Part V. Last thought
All the Science of Science: Appendix A1 Modeling team assembly
Appendix A2 Modeling Citations
References
Index.
