Talk:Dashun Wang

COI Request
Hello editors, I work at the Kellogg School and have disclosed my conflict of interest. I'd like to suggest some improvements to Dashun Wang's page, and I very much appreciate your help. I have listed my suggestions below:


 * I suggest changing the first sentence to:

Dashun Wang has been a Professor at the Kellogg School of Management and the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University since 2016.

(Change the tense to correspond to the date, remove the unnecessary comma, and delete "of Management and Organizations" because he is a Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences at the McCormick School of Engineering. If you prefer, you could keep "of Management and Organizations" and add "a Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences at" before "the McCormick School.")✅, as discussed below. ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 20:19, 6 March 2024 (UTC)


 * In order to make it read more smoothly, I suggest changing the second sentence to:

In 2019, he became the Founding Director of the Center for Science of Science and Innovation (CSSI).

Source: https://news.wttw.com/2019/09/24/northwestern-launches-hub-boost-science-artificial-intelligence ✅ ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 20:48, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I suggest adding a new third sentence to introduce a recent development:

In 2023, he co-founded the Ryan Institute on Complexity.

Sources: https://poetsandquants.com/2023/09/06/25-million-gift-funds-kelloggs-first-of-its-kind-research-institute-for-complex-problems/?pq-category=business-school-news

https://fortune.com/education/articles/northwestern-kellogg-school-of-management-ryan-institute-of-complexity/ ✅ ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 20:48, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I suggest changing the Honors and Awards section to:

In 2014, Wang received the Invention Achievement Award from IBM Research. In 2016, he received the AFOSR Young Investigator award.[2] In 2019, his paper was one of the Top 100 most-discussed papers across all sciences, he was named one of Poets & Quants Best 40 Under 40 Professors,[3] and he received the Minerva Award from Department of Defense.[11] In 2020, he received the Complex Systems Society's Junior Scientific Award. He was awarded the Erdős–Rényi Prize and named to the Thinkers50 Radar list in 2021.

Sources: https://cssociety.org/community/awards/junior-scientific-award https://thinkers50.com/biographies/dashun-wang/

(I'd prefer to refer to him by his last name rather than his first name, and I changed the present tense to past tense for events in the past. I also added some awards, with sources to verify.)

AFOSR Young Investigator award; Poets & Quants Best 40 Under 40 Professors; Minerva Research Initiative Award; Complex Systems Society's Junior Scientific Award
 * These awards can also be added to the list of awards in the box:

Sources: https://cssociety.org/community/awards/junior-scientific-award https://thinkers50.com/biographies/dashun-wang/ https://netscisociety.net/award-prizes/er-prize https://www.afmc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/803746/afosr-awards-grants-to-56-scientists-and-engineers-through-young-investigator-r/

https://thinkers50.com/biographies/dashun-wang/ https://www.dashunwang.com/about
 * Can the photo that is used in the sources above and on his personal website be incorporated?

Thank you very much! Please let me know if you have any questions or feedback regarding this request.

Moose181 (talk) 01:53, 14 February 2024 (UTC)


 * @Moose181: None of the final two can be completed. To be included in the infobox, the awards themselves have to have their own article, which they don't.
 * As for the photo, you will need to release it under a compatible license. Please see licensing. In short, by uploading a photo, you agree to provide irrevocable permission for anyone to modify, distribute or use your photo without notifying you, even commercially, as long as they provide attribution to you. ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 03:36, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much for explaining. That all makes sense. Are you able to help with the first four requests? Moose181 (talk) 17:57, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @ARandomName123 Moose181 (talk) 17:58, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @Moose181: Thanks for following up. I've implemented two of the requests, and replaced his first name with his surname where appropriate. I didn't implement the first request, since the wording isn't what we usually use. Maybe we could just remove the "since 2016" from the current version? As for the awards, some secondary coverage would be beneficial. Thanks! ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 20:50, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @ARandomName123: Thanks so much for making these changes! Yes, I agree that it would be helpful to remove the "since 2016." Is it also possible to add “member” to “He is also a core faculty member at the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems”?
 * I've copied links to an article about the Minerva Award from the Department of Defense and an article about the Thinkers50 Radar list below.
 * https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/digital-transformation/new-northwestern-center-will-study-the-science-of-scientific-innovation.html
 * https://www.forbes.com/sites/niharchhaya/2021/01/25/the-bold-ideas-to-tackle-todays-toughest-global-challenges-announcing-the-2021-thinkers50-radar-class/?sh=1fc4f4b67bb8
 * Is it possible to change the first paragraph of the Research section to:
 * Wang's current research focus is the science of science, a quest to turn the scientific methods on science itself. He uses and develops tools from complexity sciences and artificial intelligence to broadly explore the opportunities and promises offered by the recent data explosion in science. His research in this area has received significant media coverage and has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Economist, Scientific American, and Forbes, among others.
 * I’ve listed some articles in the popular press about Wang’s research below that can be added as references for the list of publications:
 * https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-high-speed-scientific-hive-mind-emerged-from-the-covid-pandemic/
 * https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/hot-streaks-in-your-career-dont-happen-by-accident/620514/
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/smarter-living/career-advice-overcome-setback.html

"In Science, Grit Counts As Well As Talent". The Economist. 2019-05-09. Retrieved 2024-05-23.


 * https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/05/09/in-science-grit-counts-as-well-as-talent
 * https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/why-small-science-still-matters/582685/
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/science/science-research-psychology.html
 * https://www.forbes.com/sites/billfischer/2019/02/15/it-takes-more-than-members-to-make-a-team/?sh=61f8e88f4601
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/smarter-living/feel-like-you-havent-hit-your-peak-yet-its-never-too-late.html
 * Also, for citation 12, these citations to published research would be preferable to the current citation to work that hasn’t been published yet:
 * https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26428-z
 * https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-0921-y
 * https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abe3084
 * Is it also possible to add the United States to the Authority Control Databases (National)? Here is that link: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2021092437.html
 * I very much appreciate your help! Please let me know if any of these suggestions are unclear.
 * Thank you! Moose181 (talk) 19:34, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I've removed the 2016 bit, and added member as you requested. the rest. Please ping me in a few hours if don't follow up. Thanks! ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me!  20:22, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Change of plans, I probably won't be reviewing this for a few more days due to irl stuff. Sorry about that! ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 14:25, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
 * No problem, thanks again! Moose181 (talk) 16:40, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @Moose181: Sorry about the delay, please review the following comments.
 * I've added the Becker's Hospital Review source to the Minerva sentence. The Forbes source is written by a contributor, and is unreliable per WP:FORBESCON.
 * The paragraph about his research is too promotional, words like "quest" and other adjectives really shouldn't be present.
 * For the research articles, could you format them here as they would appear in the article?
 * For citation 12, ideally a secondary source would be used to support this, but I've added in the sources as requested for now.
 * I've added the loc to the Authority Control, as requested.
 * For your following comments, please format all remaining edit requests in a change "x" to "y" format, with a source. I think I commented on all requested edits, but if I've missed something, please also include that in your next edit request. Makes things easier for me. Thanks! ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 17:18, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @ ARandomName123: Thanks very much for all of your help. I will work on the paragraph about his research and the research articles and get back to you. In the meantime, I have a few other requests:
 * In the first paragraph, please add these two citations after the words, “In 2023, he co-founded the Ryan Institute on Complexity”:


 * Bleizeffer, Kristy (September 6, 2023). “$25 Million Gift Funds Kellogg’s First-Of-Its-Kind Research Institute For Complex Problems.” Poets & Quants. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
 * Channick, Robert (September 6, 2023). “Funded by the same $480 million gift as stadium proposal, Ryan Institute launches at Northwestern.” Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
 * Honors and Awards section:
 * ·      Change “In 2016, Wang is a recipient of the AFOSR…” to “In 2016, Wang was a recipient of the AFOSR…”
 * ·      Add, “In 2018, he received an award from the Minerva Research Initiative, a research program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense.” [15][16]
 * ·      Change “In 2019, his paper was elected as Top 100…” to “In 2019, his paper about the impact of the size of scientific teams was one of Altmetric’s Top 100 most discussed papers across all sciences, and …”
 * Source: The 2019 Altmetric 100, Altmetric. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
 * ·      Change “and he was elected be Poets & Quants Best 40 Under 40 Professors” to “and he was named one of Poets…”
 * ·      Cut “received Minerva Award from Department of Defense” because it has been added earlier in the paragraph.
 * ·      Add, “In 2020, his paper about the unequal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientists was one of Altmetric’s Top 100 most discussed papers across all sciences.”
 * Source: The 2020 Altmetric 100, Altmetric. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
 * ·      Add, “He also received the Complex Systems Society's Junior Scientific Award.”
 * Source:  Junior Scientific Award, Complex Systems Society. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
 * ·      Add, “In 2021, he was awarded the Erdős–Rényi Prize and named to the Thinkers50 Radar list.
 * Sources:




 * Can you also please add these external links?
 * ·       dashunwang.com, personal Website
 * ·       Dashun Wang faculty page at Northwestern University
 * ·       Center for Science of Science and Innovation, founder
 * ·       The Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
 * Can you please add Dashun Wang to the list of doctoral students on Albert-László Barabási’s page? And add Albert-László Barabási as Dashun Wang’s doctoral advisor in the box?
 * Source: “Breaking Down Big Data and Human Behavior.” Husky Science Monitor. 2013. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
 * The categories listed below could also be added:
 * Northwestern University faculty
 * Kellogg School of Management faculty
 * Moose181 (talk) 18:06, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
 * @ ARandomName123: I've formatted the references cited above here. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help!
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Moose181 (talk) 22:51, 23 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi ARandomName123: I've formatted the other articles I cited above, as well:
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Moose181 (talk) 22:56, 23 May 2024 (UTC)


 * @Moose181: I think I've answered all of them. I did leave out a few awards though, as they didn't have their own article, or were only sourced to primary sources. Since this thread is getting a bit confusing to follow along, please create any new edit requests in a new section. ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 23:48, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Great, thank you! Moose181 (talk) 19:40, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Edits
Hi ARandomName123: Thanks again for all your help. I've requested a few more minor edits below, as well as some new text for the summary of Wang's research.

In the last sentence in the first section, can you please add “was named one of” between “and” and “Poets” so that it reads: “Wang is a recipient of the AFOSR Young Investigator award (2016) and was named one of Poets & Quants’ Best 40 Under 40 Professors (2019)”

Under Career, can you please change, “After that, he earned…” to “He then earned…”?

Under Awards and honors, can you please change: “and he was elected be Poets & Quants…” to “and he was named one of Poets & Quants’…”

Under Selected publications, in the Books section, can you fix the accents in Albert-László Barabási?

Can I suggest entirely new text for the summary of Wang’s research? I’ve incorporated the research described in the current version into this revised version, and I've included references for all citations below:

Wang’s research focus is the science of science [1-3], a field that seeks to improve our quantitative understanding of the inner workings of science. Wang uses and develops tools from complexity sciences and artificial intelligence to study large-scale datasets that trace the development and impact of science and scientific careers. His research in this area has received significant media coverage and has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Economist, Scientific American, and Forbes, among other publications. His research program includes the following four interconnected research streams:

Career paths of individual innovators

Wang’s work in this area examines when scientists and innovators do their best work and how they can be distinguished from each other. It has led to new insights about patterns governing individual careers, including the random impact rule [4] and the hot streak phenomenon [5-7].

Organization of innovative activity

Wang’s research on innovative activity investigates the kinds of teams that may be best positioned for innovation. He has found that small teams are more likely to disrupt science and technology with new ideas, inventions, and opportunities, whereas larger teams have tended to develop existing ideas and designs [8].

Failure

Wang seeks to establish a quantitative framework for understanding failure across a wide variety of settings. He has found empirical evidence for Nietzsche’s aphorism, “what doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger” [9-11], as well as a new quantitative framework for learning from failure [12].

Collective dynamics

Wang studies collective dynamics to understand and predict a range of social processes, from social networks [13] to human mobility [14] to long-term scientific impact [15].

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Wang analyzed global policy responses to the pandemic [16-19].

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4.     Roberta Sinatra, Dashun Wang, Pierre Deville, Chaoming Song, and Albert-László Barabási (2016), Quantifying the evolution of individual scientific impact, Science, 354, 6312.

5.     Lu Liu, Yang Wang, Roberta Sinatra, C. Lee Giles, Chaoming Song, and Dashun Wang (2018), Hot Streaks in Artistic, Cultural, and Scientific Careers. Nature.

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8.     Lingfei Wu, Dashun Wang, James A. Evans (2019), Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology. Nature, 2019.

9.     Yang Wang, Benjamin F. Jones, and Dashun Wang (2019), Early-Career Setback and Future Career Impact, Nature Communications.

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12.     Yian Yin, Yang Wang, James A. Evans, and Dashun Wang (2019), Quantifying the dynamics of failure across science, startups, and security, Nature.

13.     Pierre Deville, Chaoming Song, Nathan Eagle, Vincent Blondel, Albert-László Barabási, and Dashun Wang (2016), Scaling identity connects human mobility and social interactions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

14.     Dashun Wang, Dino Pedreschi, Chaoming Song, Fosca Giannotti, and Albert-László Barabási (2011), Human mobility, social ties, and link prediction, Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

15.     Dashun Wang, Chaoming Song, and Albert-László Barabási (2013), [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5877ca6986e6c00f05f58f84/t/58a0acb8bebafb6786e3367b/1486924994671/quantifying-long-term-scientific-impact.pdf Quantifying Long-term Scientific Impact. Science], 342, 6154 (2013): 127-132.

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Moose181 (talk) 20:27, 29 May 2024 (UTC)


 * @Moose181: Hi, I've completed the copyedits you suggested. As for the research edits, please make sure you're writing in third-person and using secondary sources whenver possible (ex. stuff not written directly by him). Additionally, I wouldn't include so many subheadings, so please merge them, if possible. It would also be helpful if you used inline citations using . Using your first citation as an example, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. " Please ping me or leave a message on my talk page once you'd like me to take a look again. Thanks! ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 19:10, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @ARandomName123: Hi, Thanks very much! I've made some changes to the research section, including inline citations, below. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do! Also, are there now enough citations that you can remove the template at the top of the page?
 * Wang’s research focus is the science of science,  a field that seeks a stronger quantitative understanding of the inner workings of science. Wang uses and develops tools from complexity sciences and artificial intelligence to study large-scale datasets that trace the development and impact of science and scientific careers. His research in this area has received significant media coverage and has been featured in The New York Times,  The Atlantic,  The Economist, and Scientific American, among other publications.
 * One of Wang’s research streams is an examination of the career paths of individual innovators, investigating when scientists and innovators do their best work and how they can be distinguished from each other. This research has led to new insights about patterns governing individual careers, including the random impact rule and the hot streak phenomenon.
 * In addition, Wang explores the organization of innovative activity, studying the kinds of teams that may be best positioned for innovation. He has found that small teams are more likely to disrupt science and technology with new ideas, inventions, and opportunities, whereas larger teams have tended to develop existing ideas and designs.
 * As part of his research program, Wang seeks to establish a quantitative framework for understanding failure across a wide variety of settings. He has found empirical evidence for Nietzsche’s aphorism, “what doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger,”  as well as a new quantitative framework for learning from failure.
 * Wang also studies collective dynamics to understand and predict a range of social processes, from social networks to human mobility to long-term scientific impact.
 * During the COVID-19 pandemic, Wang analyzed global policy responses to the pandemic.   Moose181 (talk) 20:25, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @Moose181: Thanks for formatting them as requested. Unfortunately, I'm going to be taking a step back from answering more complex edit requests. Another editor has recently expressed concerns about an edit I accepted in the past. While I disagree with their assessment, I've also been losing interest in reviewing complicated edit requests, so I've decided to stop for a while, and let other editors review your edits. I've added edit COI to the top of this section, which will add it to category of pending edit requests. Another editor will review your edit request at some point in the future. Sorry for the trouble! ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 20:14, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Ok, thank you. Moose181 (talk) 19:15, 25 June 2024 (UTC)