Science of Science

All day
Through June 11, 2019
University of Chicago Center in Beijing
20th Floor, Culture Plaza
59A Zhong Guan Cun Street
Haidian District, Beijing

Begins
Jun. 10

Science has emerged as a dominant engine of innovation for modern society. Moreover, its rich published traces allow us to understand, predict and guide its advance and utility like never before. This international conference on the "Science of Science" will involve presentations by scientists, technologists and scholars studying science from a wide range of perspectives, along with panelists of science policy makers and publishers, followed by a coding sprint and competition to develop new tools for massive-scale name disambiguation, field identification, and concept extraction that could propel the field forward.

 

Sponsors

Knowledge Lab at the University of Chicago

Tsinghua Joint Research Center for Knowledge and Intelligence

The University of Chicago Center in Beijing

 

Workshop Organizers

James Evans

Professor of Sociology

Director of Knowledge Lab and the Computational Social Science Program

University of Chicago

Jie Tang

Professor of Computer Science

Vice-Chair of Computer Science Department

Director of the Joint Research Center for Knowledge and Intelligence

Tsinghua University

 

 


Monday, June 10, 2019

 

9:00 – 9:20

Registration

 

9:20 – 9:30

Introduction

James Evans, University of Chicago &

Jie Tang, Tsinghua University

 

Session I: The Complex System of Science

 

9:30 – 10:00

Clustering Journals and Papers via Their Word2Vec and Node2Vec Representations

Jinshan Wu

Beijing Normal University

 

10:00 – 10:30

Recency Predicts Bursts in the Evolution of Author Citation Networks

Santo Fortunato

Indiana University Bloomington

 

10:30 – 11:00

Large Teams Develop and Small Teams Disrupt Science and Technology

Lingfei Wu

University of Chicago

 

11:00 – 11:15

Q&A

 

11:15 – 11:30

Group Photo & Coffee Break

 

11:30 – 12:00

Of Mice and Men: Co-study Networks of Species in Biology Research

Lav Varshney

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

 

12:00 – 12:30

The Changing Landscape of Knowledge Production

Stasa Milosevic

Indiana University Bloomington

 

12:30 – 12:40

Q&A

 

12:40 – 13:30

Lunch at the Center (All participants)

 

Session II: Science Funding & Science Policy

 

13:30 – 14:00

UMETRICS: New Data and Findings

Bruce Weinberg

Ohio State University

 

14:00 – 14:30

People or Projects: The Links between Research Funding and Disruptive Innovation

Raviv Marciano-Goroff

New York University

 

14:30 – 15:00

Rethinking Resource Allocation in Science

Johan Bollen

Indiana University Bloomington

 

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee Break

 

15:30 – 17:30

Science Policy Panel Discussion

Moderator: Zhengfeng Li

 

Heping Xu, Former Director of the Investigation and Research Office

Ministry of Science and Technology of China

Yonghe Zheng, Former Director of the Policy Bureau

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Zhijian Hu, Dean of the Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development

Ministry of Science and Technology of China

Zhengfeng Li, Deputy Dean of the School of Social Sciences

Tsinghua University

 

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

 

Session III: Tools for the Science of Science

 

9:00 – 9:30

Viziometrics: Mapping the Visual Literature

Jevin West

University of Washington

 

9:30 – 10:00

The Effect of Bias and Variance on Scientific Peer Review

Daniel Acuna

Syracuse University

 

10:00 – 10:30

PEERS - Rethinking Scholarship in the Digital Era

Sacha Raoult

Aix-Marseille Université

 

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

 

11:00 – 11:30

OAG: Toward Linking Large-scale Heterogeneous Entity Graphs

Jie Tang

Tsinghua University

 

11:30 – 12:00

Q&A

 

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch at the Center (All participants)

 

Session IV: Social Studies of Science

 

13:30 – 14:00

Digital Humanities in Science and Technology Studies

Wei Hong

Tsinghua University

 

14:00 - 14:30

Social Limits to Scientific Understanding

James Evans

University of Chicago

 

14:30 – 15:00

Coffee Break

 

15:00 – 17:00

Artificial Intelligence Panel Discussion

Tsinghua University