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Developing an Index of National Research Capacity
Quantitative Science Studies
2024

Can national research capacity be measured?

Co-Creating Maps and Atlases Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate Lorraine Daston Columbia Global Reports
Science
2023

Caroline Wagner explores the importance of cooperation in the creation of two major scientific resources.

Convergence Research as a ‘System-of-Systems’: A Framework and Research Agenda
Minerva
2023

Researchers Lisa Gajary, Anand Desai and colleagues present a multilevel research agenda that accounts for a complex systems understanding of Convergence Research, one of the U.S. National Science Foundation's "10 Big Ideas" and top strategic approaches to address grand societal challenges.

Women are credited less in science than men
Nature
2023

Bruce Weinberg and colleagues study the reasons women are less likely to be named on a given article or patent produced by their team relative to their male peers.

Analytical solutions to evaluate the geothermal energy generation potential from sedimentary-basin reservoirs
Geothermics
2023

In this study, Jeff Bielicki and colleagues develop and implement analytical solutions for calculating reservoir impedance, reservoir heat depletion, and wellbore heat loss in sedimentary reservoirs that are laterally extensive, homogeneous, horizontally isotropic and have uniform thickness.

Global assessment of the carbon–water tradeoff of dry cooling for thermal power generation
Nature Water
2023

Jeff Bielicki and colleagues investigate the CO2 emission and energy penalty due to the deployment of dry cooling—a critical water mitigation strategy—together with alternative water sourcing and carbon capture and storage under climate scenarios.

China’s use of formal science and technology agreements as a tool of diplomacy
Science and Public Policy
2023

Caroline Wagner studies the use of diplomatic tools by China's government in pursuit of foreign policy goals.

Improved Clusterings and Visualizations of 11,359 Journals in the JCRs 2015
Scientometrics
2021

Professor Caroline Wagner's publication raises a number of questions such as how to collect data of citations related to a given journal; conduct social network analysis on journals related to citations; and produce diagram properly and quickly on a dashboard.

Democracy, Complexity, and Science: Exploring Structural Sources of National Scientific Performance
Science and Public Policy
2021

Professor Caroline Wagner explores the effect of democratic governance on scientific performance using panel data on 124 countries between 2007–2017. We find evidence supporting the democracy–science hypothesis.

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