Asking Web of Science "Who has extended Moody 2004?"
This page summarized the ~450 people who have cited Moody 2004. All the citers (as of October 2019) are here.
Digging into top citers
- Linguistic complexity plays little role in scientific impact
- Includes many on this list: Bu, Ding, Larivière, Sugimoto (out of 9 authors).
- Logan Paul is from IU, but doesn't seem to have had a strong intellectual role here (developer??).
Kronegger, Ferligoj, Doreian, Light
They're not publishing much anymore, except Ryan Light, who isn't solely focused on this topic.
Vetle Torvik
(eh)
Profile
Yi Bu
- I found this person through his advisor Ying Ding
- Seems to be doing 1000 things at once.
- She has 8 published papers citing Moody 2004
- But she publishes a shit ton (almost never first author, except Scientific collaboration and endorsement)
- E.g. Innovation or Imitation
- Connected to CNetS at IU Bloomington
- His publications look really interesting, and right on what I'm doing
Vincent Larivière
- Has 154 publications (as of Oct 2019)!!
- Coauthors a lot of papers with others, like Ying Ding (see Yi Bu)
- Analyzes modern citation practices mostly, wondering about the consequences and incentive structures of modern scientific practice, including open access, megajournals
Contributorship and division of labor in knowledge production is a very cool paper, where Vincent and lots of coauthors analyze the division of labour in science using data on the roles scientists played in producing 80k papers. Cool!
Vincent's coauthors
Also should look into this apparently vast research group within which Vincent is working. Let's look at everyone he's coauthored with.
| Authors | records | % of 154 |
|---|---|---|
| Cassidy R. Sugimoto | 45 | 29.221 |
| Yves Gingras | 34 | 22.078 |
| Stefanie Haustein | 22 | 14.286 |
| Philippe Mongeon | 22 | 14.286 |
| ARCHAMBAULT E | 20 | 12.987 |
| MACALUSO B | 18 | 11.688 |
| COSTAS R | 13 | 8.442 |
| PAUL-HUS A | 10 | 6.494 |
| DESROCHERS N | 7 | 4.545 |
| SHU F | 7 | 4.545 |
| SMITH E | 7 | 4.545 |
| THELWALL M | 7 | 4.545 |
| CRONIN B | 6 | 3.896 |
And yes, these guys seem to do very very similar things!
Grosetti et al. 2013 is great, geocoding all author addresses from 1987 to 2007 to understand whether cities are still producing most scientific work. The answer is "unambguous: deconcentration is the dominant trend both globally and within countries, with some exceptions".
Cassidy R. Sugimoto @ IU Bloomington. She co-wrote measuring research with Lariviere.
Yves Gingras is interesting. He has only French and Russian Wikipedias! Despite his being Canadian! Chair of some group. Seems like he's written a lot of books
Stephanie Haustein @ Ottowa has interesting work too! E. g. Identifying diffusion patterns of research articles on Twitter: A case study of online engagement with open access articles
Philippe Mongeon is a postdoc @ CWTS (Netherlands).
- Is Science Built on the Shoulders of Women? A Study of Gender Differences in Contributorship
- Pubmed
- Finds that women usually are doing experimental work
- This correlates with younger scholars, but the discrepancy between men and women doesn't change by age!
Where Vincent publishes
Erin Leahey
Also has 8 papers citing Moody 2004. Here's what she's done since then:
- Prominent but Less Productive: The Impact of Interdisciplinarity on Scientists’ Research
- The Joy of Science: Disciplinary Diversity in Emotional Accounts
- Sociological Innovation through Subfield Integration
- Conclusion Subfield-spanning work typically garners more citations
- Data
- "we examine journal articles written by a 20 percent probability sample of tenured and tenure-track faculty members located in sociology departments at Extensive Research Universities6 in spring 2004."
- 1,785 articles by 180 sociologists, housed in 99 universities
- For each article, we collected classification codes (keyword descriptors indicating disciplinary subfields—see the entire list in Appendix B), which are assigned by staff at Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSAs), the umbrella organization that manages the database.
- Straight from the source: Accounting for scientific success
- reading reflective accounts of authors of classics
- accounts of success contain "three ingredients – relationships, usefulness to others, and overcoming challenges – are found in a large majority of scientific success stories"
- No Decline, Just Loss of Dominance: A Prompt to Worry (a Bit) and Ask Why
- Parenting and research productivity: New evidence and methods
- Overseeing Research Practice: The Case of Data Editing
- Research Specialization and Collaboration Patterns in Sociology
- Not by Productivity Alone: How Visibility and Specialization Contribute to Academic Earnings
- Gender Differences in Productivity: Research Specialization as a Missing Link
- Transmitting Tricks of the Trade: Advisors and the Development of Research Knowledge
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