Scholar
Duncan J Watts
Google Scholar ID: LhOAiXMAAAAJ
University of Pennsylvania
Citations & Impact
Citations
43,417
H-index
61
i10-index
97
Publications
20
Co-authors
53
list available
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Publications in Nature, Science, Physical Review Letters, American Journal of Sociology, Harvard Business Review, etc.
- - Awards: 2009 German Physical Society Young Scientist Award for Socio and Econophysics, 2013 Lagrange-CRT Foundation Prize for Complexity Science, 2014 Everett M. Rogers Award
- - Honors: Inaugural fellow of the Network Science Society in 2018, Carnegie Fellow in 2020, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2021
Research Experience
- - Research areas: social networks and collective dynamics
- - Projects: Penn Media Accountability Project (PennMAP), High-Throughput Experiments on Group Dynamics, COVID Philadelphia, Common Sense
Background
- - Computational social scientist
- - Research interests: social and organizational networks, collective dynamics of human systems, web-based experiments, and analysis of large-scale digital data (including the production, consumption, and absorption of news)
- - Position: Stevens University Professor and twenty-third Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
- - Affiliations: Annenberg School of Communication, Department of Computer and Information Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Operations, Information and Decisions in the Wharton School
- - Secondary appointment: Sociology Department in the School of Arts and Sciences
- - Founder and director of the Computational Social Science Lab at Penn
- - Inaugural President of the International Society for Computational Social Science (ISCSS)
