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ReviewNature human behaviour2023

Data, measurement and empirical methods in the science of science.

Lu Liu, Benjamin F Jones, Brian Uzzi, Dashun Wang

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Review in Nature human behaviour, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  11. Promotional language and the adoption of innovative ideas in science.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Lu LiuCenter for Science of Science and Innovation, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
Benjamin F JonesCenter for Science of Science and Innovation, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9697-9388
Brian UzziCenter for Science of Science and Innovation, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6855-2854
Dashun WangCenter for Science of Science and Innovation, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA. dashun.wang@northwestern.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7054-2206

Funding

United States Department of Defense | United States Air Force | AFMC | Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AF Office of Scientific Research) FA9550-19-1-0354
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The advent of large-scale datasets that trace the workings of science has encouraged researchers from many different disciplinary backgrounds to turn scientific methods into science itself, cultivating a rapidly expanding 'science of science'. This Review considers this growing, multidisciplinary literature through the lens of data, measurement and empirical methods. We discuss the purposes, strengths and limitations of major empirical approaches, seeking to increase understanding of the field's diverse methodologies and expand researchers' toolkits. Overall, new empirical developments provide enormous capacity to test traditional beliefs and conceptual frameworks about science, discover factors associated with scientific productivity, predict scientific outcomes and design policies that facilitate scientific progress.

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PMID37264084

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