James Evans

James Evans

University of Chicago

H-index: 37

North America-United States

About James Evans

James Evans, With an exceptional h-index of 37 and a recent h-index of 34 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Chicago, specializes in the field of science of science, innovation, sociology of knowledge, complex networks, content analysis.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Being together in place as a catalyst for scientific advance

Evolving AI Collectives to Enhance Human Diversity and Enable Self-Regulation

Human languages with greater information density have higher communication speed but lower conversation breadth

Disrupted routines anticipate musical exploration

Generative AI To Recognize Response Fabrication in PTSD

Counterfactual mobility network embedding reveals prevalent accessibility gaps in US cities

Algorithmic Abduction: Robots for Alien Reading

Beyond playing 20 questions with nature: Integrative experiment design in the social and behavioral sciences

James Evans Information

University

Position

Professor of Sociology

Citations(all)

9049

Citations(since 2020)

6308

Cited By

4915

hIndex(all)

37

hIndex(since 2020)

34

i10Index(all)

65

i10Index(since 2020)

56

Email

University Profile Page

University of Chicago

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James Evans Skills & Research Interests

science of science

innovation

sociology of knowledge

complex networks

content analysis

Top articles of James Evans

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Being together in place as a catalyst for scientific advance

Research Policy

Eamon Duede

Misha Teplitskiy

Karim Lakhani

James Evans

2024/3/1

Evolving AI Collectives to Enhance Human Diversity and Enable Self-Regulation

arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.12590

Shiyang Lai

Yujin Potter

Junsol Kim

Richard Zhuang

Dawn Song

...

2024/2/19

Human languages with greater information density have higher communication speed but lower conversation breadth

Nature Human Behaviour

Pedro Aceves

James A Evans

2024/2/16

Disrupted routines anticipate musical exploration

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Khwan Kim

Noah Askin

James A Evans

2024/2/6

Generative AI To Recognize Response Fabrication in PTSD

Ishanu Chattopadhyay

Royce Lee

James Evans

Michael Brook

Robert Gibbons

2024/4/23

Counterfactual mobility network embedding reveals prevalent accessibility gaps in US cities

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Yunke Zhang

Fengli Xu

Lin Chen

Yuan Yuan

James Evans

...

2024/1/9

Algorithmic Abduction: Robots for Alien Reading

Critical Inquiry

James A Evans

Jacob G Foster

2024/3/1

Beyond playing 20 questions with nature: Integrative experiment design in the social and behavioral sciences

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Abdullah Almaatouq

Thomas L Griffiths

Jordan W Suchow

Mark E Whiting

James Evans

...

2024/1

Surprising combinations of research contents and contexts are related to impact and emerge with scientific outsiders from distant disciplines

Nature Communications

Feng Shi

James Evans

2023/3/24

Mobilizing conceptual spaces: How word embedding models can inform measurement and theory within organization science

Organization Science

Pedro Aceves

James A Evans

2023/6/12

Why Do Scientists Disagree?

Justin Sulik

Nakwon Rim

Elizabeth Pontikes

James Evans

Gary Lupyan

2023/7/25

‘Its the Economy Stupid’: Predictive Theory of Belief Shift Connecting Economic Stress to Societal Polarization

David Yang

James EVans

Ishanu Chattopadhyay

2023/3/8

Local similarity and global variability characterize the semantic space of human languages

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Molly Lewis

Aoife Cahill

Nitin Madnani

James Evans

2023/12/19

Osiris, Volume 38: Beyond Craft and Code: Human and Algorithmic Cultures, Past and Present

James Evans

Adrian Johns

2023/7/18

Does big data serve policy? Not without context. An experiment with in silico social science

Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory

Chris Graziul

Alexander Belikov

Ishanu Chattopadyay

Ziwen Chen

Hongbo Fang

...

2023/3

The Inefficiency of Private Support for Public Health: Comparing Nonprofit Biomedical Research Funding with the NIH

Available at SSRN 4483036

Simon Y Schacter

Donghyun Kang

James A Evans

2023

The high-dimensional space of human diseases built from diagnosis records and mapped to genetic loci

Nature Computational Science

Gengjie Jia

Yu Li

Xue Zhong

Kanix Wang

Milton Pividori

...

2023/5

Information lattice learning

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

Haizi Yu

James A Evans

Lav R Varshney

2023/7/13

Do online certifications improve job market outcomes? Evidence from an IT skills certification platform in India

Information Economics and Policy

Nandana Sengupta

Neaketa Chawla

Anna Agarwal

James Evans

2023/12/1

Sparse Data Reconstruction, Missing Value and Multiple Imputation through Matrix Factorization

Sociological Methodology

Nandana Sengupta

Madeleine Udell

Nathan Srebro

James Evans

2023/2

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Co-Authors

H-index: 62
Carl T. Bergstrom

Carl T. Bergstrom

University of Washington

H-index: 58
andrey rzhetsky

andrey rzhetsky

University of Chicago

H-index: 54
Katy Borner

Katy Borner

Indiana University Bloomington

H-index: 54
Stephen R. Barley

Stephen R. Barley

Stanford University

H-index: 51
Brian Uzzi

Brian Uzzi

Northwestern University

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