James A. Evans

10.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
146 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

James A. Evans is a scholar working on Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Sociology and Political Science and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, James A. Evans has authored 146 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, 21 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 21 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in James A. Evans's work include scientometrics and bibliometrics research (22 papers), Scientific Computing and Data Management (9 papers) and Complex Network Analysis Techniques (8 papers). James A. Evans is often cited by papers focused on scientometrics and bibliometrics research (22 papers), Scientific Computing and Data Management (9 papers) and Complex Network Analysis Techniques (8 papers). James A. Evans collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. James A. Evans's co-authors include Dashun Wang, Lingfei Wu, Andrey Rzhetsky, Jacob G. Foster, Gideon Kunda, Stephen R. Barley, Johan S. G. Chu, Jacob G. Foster, Jacob Reimer and Bing Pan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

James A. Evans

134 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Science of science

2018 781 citations James A. Evans et al. profile →
Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology

2019 542 citations James A. Evans et al. profile →
Tradition and Innovation in Scientists’ Research Strategies

2015 329 citations Jacob G. Foster, Andrey Rzhetsky et al. profile →
Forecasting Chinese tourist volume with search engine data

2014 329 citations James A. Evans et al. profile →
Machine Translation: Mining Text for Social Theory

2016 193 citations James A. Evans et al. profile →
Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science

2021 185 citations James A. Evans et al. profile →

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Citations

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James A. Evans

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Using human mobility data to quantify experienced urban inequalities 2025 ·Nature Human Behaviour ·Fengli Xu, Qi Wang, Esteban Moro, (unknown), Arianna Salazar Miranda, Marta C. González, Michele Tizzoni, (unknown), Carlo Ratti, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Yong Li, James A. Evans	9
2	Learning from one and only one shot 2025 ·(unknown), (unknown), Lav R. Varshney, James A. Evans	1
3	Human languages with greater information density have higher communication speed but lower conversation breadth 2024 ·Nature Human Behaviour ·(unknown), James A. Evans	7
4	Counterfactual mobility network embedding reveals prevalent accessibility gaps in U.S. cities 2024 ·Humanities and Social Sciences Communications ·(unknown), Fengli Xu, (unknown), Yuan Yuan, James A. Evans, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Yong Li	3
5	Algorithmic Abduction: Robots for Alien Reading 2024 ·Critical Inquiry ·James A. Evans, Jacob G. Foster	4
6	Mobilizing Conceptual Spaces: How Word Embedding Models Can Inform Measurement and Theory Within Organization Science 2023 ·Organization Science ·(unknown), James A. Evans	10
7	The high-dimensional space of human diseases built from diagnosis records and mapped to genetic loci 2023 ·Nature Computational Science ·(unknown), Yu Li, Xue Zhong, Kanix Wang, Milton Pividori, (unknown), (unknown), Hatem Ltaief, Chikashi Terao, Masato Akiyama, Koichi Matsuda, David E. Keyes, Hae Kyung Im, Takashi Gojobori, Yoichiro Kamatani, Michiaki Kubo, Nancy J. Cox, James A. Evans, Xin Gao, Andrey Rzhetsky	4
8	In her Shoes: Gendered Labelling in Crowdsourced Safety Perceptions Data from India 2023 ·(unknown), (unknown), James A. Evans	3
9	The Craft and Code Binary 2023 ·Osiris ·James A. Evans, (unknown), Adrian Johns	0
10	Strategic COVID-19 vaccine distribution can simultaneously elevate social utility and equity 2022 ·Nature Human Behaviour ·(unknown), Fengli Xu, (unknown), Kun Tang, Pan Hui, James A. Evans, Yong Li	24
11	Event-level prediction of urban crime reveals a signature of enforcement bias in US cities 2022 ·Nature Human Behaviour ·(unknown), Yi Huang, Timmy Li, James A. Evans, Ishanu Chattopadhyay	16
12	Does big data serve policy? Not without context. An experiment with in silico social science 2022 ·Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), P. M. Krafft, Max Kleiman‐Weiner, (unknown), Liang Chen, (unknown), (unknown), Meg Young, James A. Evans	4
13	Too Many Cooks: Coordinating Multi-agent Collaboration Through Inverse Planning 2020 ·DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·(unknown), (unknown), James A. Evans, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, David C. Parkes, Max Kleiman‐Weiner	10
14	Evaluating the use of Facebook's Prophet model v0.6 in forecastingconcentrations of NO<sub>2</sub> at single sites across the UK and in responseto the COVID-19 lockdown in Manchester, England 2020 ·David Topping, David C. Watts, Hugh Coe, James A. Evans, Thomas J. Bannan, Douglas Lowe, Caroline Jay, Jonathan Taylor	4
15	Beyond the Meme 2019 ·PhilSci-Archive (University of Pittsburgh) ·Sabina Leonelli, Nancy J. Nersessian, Michel Janssen, Jacob G. Foster, James A. Evans, Mark A. Bedau, Marshall Abrams, Gilbert Tostevin, Salikoko S. Mufwene, (unknown), Joseph D. Martin, Paul E. Smaldino, Claes Andersson, Anton Törnberg, Petter Törnberg	2
16	Detection of microcracks in trunnion rods using ultrasonic guided waves 2015 ·US Army Corps of Engineers: Engineer Research and Development Center (Knowledge Core) ·James A. Evans, (unknown)	1
17	Attention to Local Health Burden and the Global Disparity of Health Research 2014 ·PLoS ONE ·James A. Evans, Jae-Mahn Shim, John P. A. Ioannidis	92
18	Modeling the spread of community-associated MRSA 2012 ·Winter Simulation Conference ·Charles M. Macal, Michael North, Nicholson Collier, Vanja Dukić, Diane S. Lauderdale, Michael David, Robert S. Daum, (unknown), James A. Evans, Jocelyn Wilder, Duane T. Wegener	9
19	Advancing Science through Mining Libraries, Ontologies, and Communities 2011 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·James A. Evans, Andrey Rzhetsky	12
20	Novel opportunities for computational biology and sociology in drug discovery 2010 ·Trends in biotechnology ·Lixia Yao, James A. Evans, Andrey Rzhetsky	27

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