Science of science

Title

Science of science

Creator(s)

Fortunato, Santo

Bergstrom, Carl T.

Börner, Katy

Evans, James A.

Helbing, Dirk

Milojević, Staša

Petersen, Alexander M.

Radicchi, Filippo

Sinatra, Roberta

Uzzi, Brian

Vespignani, Alessandro

Waltman, Ludo

Wang, Dashun

Barabási, Albert-László

Date

2018

Is Part Of

Science

Volume

359

Issue

6379

Pages

eaao0185

Language

eng

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aao0185

URI

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aao0185

Zotero BiDiAr

https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/9ZD8R3B9/item-list

Abstract

Identifying fundamental drivers of science and developing predictive models to capture its evolution are instrumental for the design of policies that can improve the scientific enterprise—for example, through enhanced career paths for scientists, better performance evaluation for organizations hosting research, discovery of novel effective funding vehicles, and even identification of promising regions along the scientific frontier. The science of science uses large-scale data on the production of science to search for universal and domain-specific patterns. Here, we review recent developments in this transdisciplinary field.