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Research Team

OSTI has assembled a research team of epidemiological modelers and science diffusion experts, including:

Luis Bettencourt, Theoretical Division, T-7, Los Alamos National Laboratory
David Kaiser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology [exit federal site]
Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Arizona State University [exit federal site]

The team is coordinated by David Wojick, consultant.

The dynamics of scientific discovery: the spread of ideas and structural transitions in collaboration networks (759-KB PDF) by Luis M. A. Bettencourt, et al.
The Digital Road to Scientific Knowledge Diffusion: A Faster, Better Way to Scientific Progress? by David Wojick, et al.
[Article, D-Lib Magazine, June 2006]
DOE Science Accelerator booklet (655-KB PDF)
Global Discovery: Increasing the Pace of Knowledge Diffusion to Increase the Pace of Science
[Slides from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, February 2006]
The Mathematics of Diseases by Matt Keeling [exit federal site]
Notes toward a Nanotech Timeline (584-KB PDF) by David Kaiser
On the Transmission Dynamics of Knowledge (834-KB PDF) by Ariel Cintron-Arias, et al.
Power of a Good Idea: Quantitative Modeling of the Spread of Ideas from Epidemiological Models (362-KB PDF) by Luis M. A. Bettencourt, et al.
Report for the Office of Scientific and Technical Information: Population Modeling of the Emergence and Development of Scientific Fields (579-KB PDF) by Luis M. A. Bettencourt, et al., Editor's Copy.
- Published in Scientometrics, Vol. 75, No. 3 (2008) 495–518.

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