Jacob G. Foster

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Jacob G. Foster is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jacob G. Foster has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Jacob G. Foster's work include Complex Network Analysis Techniques (8 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (7 papers) and Computational and Text Analysis Methods (4 papers). Jacob G. Foster is often cited by papers focused on Complex Network Analysis Techniques (8 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (7 papers) and Computational and Text Analysis Methods (4 papers). Jacob G. Foster collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Jacob G. Foster's co-authors include James A. Evans, Andrey Rzhetsky, David Foster, Maya Paczuski, Peter Grassberger, Ian Foster, Feng Shi, Alina Arseniev‐Koehler, Stuart Kauffman and Sui Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and American Sociological Review.

In The Last Decade

Jacob G. Foster

29 papers receiving 1.0k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jacob G. Foster United States	14	310	254	194	168	149	29	1.1k
Ying Ding China	20	191 0.6×	469 1.8×	114 0.6×	87 0.5×	223 1.5×	43	1.1k
Qing Ke China	15	157 0.5×	305 1.2×	164 0.8×	61 0.4×	136 0.9×	39	874
Raf Guns Belgium	20	159 0.5×	669 2.6×	93 0.5×	87 0.5×	139 0.9×	82	1.2k
Anuška Ferligoj Slovenia	26	527 1.7×	258 1.0×	447 2.3×	83 0.5×	167 1.1×	67	1.6k
Jevin D. West United States	21	428 1.4×	767 3.0×	454 2.3×	142 0.8×	382 2.6×	68	2.6k
Iina Hellsten Netherlands	22	193 0.6×	130 0.5×	646 3.3×	121 0.7×	126 0.8×	64	1.5k
Staša Milojević United States	20	442 1.4×	882 3.5×	279 1.4×	191 1.1×	319 2.1×	52	2.2k
Vincent Traag Netherlands	15	604 1.9×	70 0.3×	198 1.0×	182 1.1×	196 1.3×	41	1.3k
Jean‐Philippe Cointet France	15	160 0.5×	63 0.2×	298 1.5×	70 0.4×	109 0.7×	49	934

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Evans, James A. & Jacob G. Foster. (2024). Algorithmic Abduction: Robots for Alien Reading. Critical Inquiry. 50(3). 375–401. 4 indexed citations

Mays, Vickie M., et al.. (2024). Identifying Witnessed Suicides in National Violent Death Reporting System Narratives. Healthcare. 12(2). 209–209. 1 indexed citations

Hardie, Jessica Halliday, Alina Arseniev‐Koehler, Judith A. Seltzer, & Jacob G. Foster. (2024). Talk of Family: How Institutional Overlap Shapes Family-Related Discourse Across Social Class. RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. 10(5). 165–187. 4 indexed citations

Krenn, Mario, Lorenzo Buffoni, Bruno Coutinho, et al.. (2023). Forecasting the future of artificial intelligence with machine learning-based link prediction in an exponentially growing knowledge network. Nature Machine Intelligence. 5(11). 1326–1335. 36 indexed citations

Arseniev‐Koehler, Alina, Vickie M. Mays, Jacob G. Foster, Kai-Wei Chang, & Susan D. Cochran. (2023). Gendered Patterns in Manifest and Latent Mental Health Indicators Among Suicide Decedents: 2003–2020 National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS). American Journal of Public Health. 114(S3). S268–S277. 4 indexed citations

Arseniev‐Koehler, Alina, Susan D. Cochran, Vickie M. Mays, Kai-Wei Chang, & Jacob G. Foster. (2022). Integrating topic modeling and word embedding to characterize violent deaths. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(10). e2108801119–e2108801119. 23 indexed citations

Foster, Jacob G., Feng Shi, & James A. Evans. (2021). Surprise! Measuring Novelty as Expectation Violation. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 14 indexed citations

Gjesfjeld, Erik, Daniele Silvestro, Jonathan L. Chang, et al.. (2020). A quantitative workflow for modeling diversification in material culture. PLoS ONE. 15(2). e0227579–e0227579. 10 indexed citations

Leonelli, Sabina, Nancy J. Nersessian, Michel Janssen, et al.. (2019). Beyond the Meme. PhilSci-Archive (University of Pittsburgh). 2 indexed citations

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Foster, Jacob G.. (2018). Culture and computation: Steps to a Probably Approximately Correct theory of culture. Poetics. 68. 144–154. 19 indexed citations

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Shi, Feng, Jacob G. Foster, & James A. Evans. (2015). Weaving the fabric of science: Dynamic network models of science's unfolding structure. Social Networks. 43. 73–85. 79 indexed citations

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Rzhetsky, Andrey, Jacob G. Foster, Ian Foster, & James A. Evans. (2015). Choosing experiments to accelerate collective discovery. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(47). 14569–14574. 139 indexed citations

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Foster, David, et al.. (2013). Dynamic landscapes: A model of context and contingency in evolution. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 334. 162–172. 5 indexed citations

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Foster, David, Jacob G. Foster, Peter Grassberger, & Maya Paczuski. (2011). Clustering drives assortativity and community structure in ensembles of networks. Physical Review E. 84(6). 66117–66117. 37 indexed citations

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Foster, Jacob G., et al.. (2010). DECEPTION, TELLS, AND THE EVOLUTION OF COMBINATORIAL COMMUNICATION. The Evolution of Language. 405–406. 1 indexed citations

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Foster, Jacob G., David Foster, Peter Grassberger, & Maya Paczuski. (2010). Edge direction and the structure of networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(24). 10815–10820. 174 indexed citations

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Foster, David, Jacob G. Foster, Maya Paczuski, & Peter Grassberger. (2010). Communities, clustering phase transitions, and hysteresis: Pitfalls in constructing network ensembles. Physical Review E. 81(4). 20 indexed citations

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Foster, David, Jacob G. Foster, Sui Huang, & Stuart Kauffman. (2009). A model of sequential branching in hierarchical cell fate determination. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 260(4). 589–597. 37 indexed citations

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Foster, Jacob G., David Foster, Peter Grassberger, & Maya Paczuski. (2007). Link and subgraph likelihoods in random undirected networks with fixed and partially fixed degree sequences. Physical Review E. 76(4). 46112–46112. 13 indexed citations

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Fishman, Barry, et al.. (2000). Fostering Teacher Learning in Systemic Reform: A Design Proposal for Developing Professional Development.. 14 indexed citations

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