Knowledge, Science, and Society

What is scientific knowledge, and how is it created, accumulated, and used? Knowledge, Science, and Society (KSS) is an interdisciplinary seminar designed to respond to this fundamental question of intellectual change. We suggest that the hidden structure and dynamics of science are not amenable to simple metrics. Our understanding on the underlying structure (such as how do citations distribute) and dynamics (such as how do citations grow) of science conditions effective evaluation of outcomes (such as paper citations, journal impact factor, and scholar h-index) and productive science policy for societal benefits. We gather in one city at a time and discuss one question at a time to grow a global intellectual community for the next generation scholars.

'Fake’ interdisciplinary collaborations (IDCs) happen when scientists of various disciplines put their names on a joint project... but no knowledge integration occurs, because they end up working on their individual or mono-disciplinary research separately.

Lianghao Dai  |  Zhejiang Meetup

A sociologist working on the sociology of science.

Representative work:
Dai, L., & Boos, M. (2019). Mapping the right fit for knowledge sharing. Nature, 575(7783).

Zhejiang Meetup 

What is effective scientific collaboration and how to make it happen?

Beijing Aug 23 AM  |  EST Aug 22 PM 

1

Yongren Shi

Voluntary associations in knowledge economies   

2

Lianghao Dai

Minimum degree of knowledge sharing for interdisciplinary collaboration

3

Lingfei Wu

What is scientific knowledge and how is it created, accumulated, and transformed collectively?

4

Jiang Li

The influence of scientists' mobility on science

5

Yi Bu

A multidimensional framework for characterizing the citation impact of publications

6

An Zeng

The representative works of scientists

Beijing Aug 23 PM | EST Aug 23 AM 

7

Jiawei Xu

Patterns of knowledge integration and diffusion for interdisciplinary scientific publications

8

Yanmeng Xing

survival and success of junior researcher

9

Huiming Chen

Country Image in COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of China

10

Yiling Lin 

Can remote teams innovate?

11

Zhenyue Zhao

Knowledge accumulation through citations

12

Zejian Lv 

How subfields emerge?

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