Publications
Science of Science
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Hassoun, N., Conklin, S., Nekrasov, M., & West, J. (2022). The Past 110 Years: Historical Data on the Underrepresentation of Women in Philosophy Journals. In Ethics.
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Torrance, A. W., & West, J. (2021). Patent Analytics: Information From Innovation. In Katz, M. and Bommarito, M.J. and Dolin, R. (Ed.), Legal Informatics. Cambridge University Press.
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Bergstrom, C., & West, J. (2020). Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World, . Random House.
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Wang, S., West, J., Bergstrom, C. T., Lee, C., & Erosheva, E. A. (2019). Gender-based homophily in scientific collaborations.
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Torrance, A., & West, J. (2018). Are Trolls Good (At Choosing Valuable Patents)?. In PAE Reform Symposium.
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Tran, L. T., Park, K., Lee, P., West, J., & Schich, M. (2018). Chromatic Structure and Family Resemblance in Large Art Collections — Exemplary Quantification and Visualizations. In Digital Humanities Annual Conference.
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Piwowar, H., Priem, J., Larivière, V., Alperin, J. P., Matthias, L., Norlander, B., Farley, A., West, J., & Haustein3, S. (2018). The State of OA: A large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles. In PeerJ, 6, e4375. PeerJ Inc..
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Chow, M., Egna, H., & West, J. (2018). Towards Assessing Gender Authorship in Aquaculture Publications. In The Journal of the Asian Fisheries Society, 30S, 131-143. Asian Fisheries Science.
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Torrance, A., & West, J. (2017). All Patents Great and Small - A Big Data Network Approach to Valuation. In Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, 20 (3) , 395-465.
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Aulck, L., & West, J. (2017). Attrition and Performance of Community College Transfers . In PLoS One, 12 (4) , 1-23.
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Ding, Y., West, J., Song, M., Meng, G., & Yu, Q. (2017). Data-Driven Discovery: A New Era of Exploiting the Literature and Data. In iConference.
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Howe, W. G., Lee, P., Grechkin, M., Yang, S. T., & West, J. (2017). Deep Mapping of the Visual Literature. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion (WWW): Big Scholar Workshop, 1273-1277.
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Kim, L., West, J., & Stovel, K. (2017). Echo Chambers in Science?. In American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting.
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West, J. (2017). How to fine-tune your BS meter. In Seattle Times.
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Nahum, J., West, J., Althouse, B., Zaman, L., Kerr, B., & (2017). Improved Adaptation in Exogenously and Endogenously Changing Environments. In European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL), 14, 306-313. MIT Press.
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Portenoy, J., Hullman, J., & West, J. (2017). Leveraging citation networks to visualize scholarly influence over time. In Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 2, 1-10.
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King, M. M., Correll, S., Jacquet, J., Bergstrom, C. T., & West, J. (2017). Men set their own cites high: Gender and self-citation across fields and over time. In Socius, 3, 1-22. SAGE.
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Lee, P., Yang, S., West, J., & Howe, B. (2017). PhyloParser: A Hybrid Algorithm for Extracting Phylogenies from Dendrogram. In 14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 1087-1094. IEEE.
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Aulck, L., Aras, R., Li, L., L'Heureux, C., Lu, P., & West, J. (2017). STEM-ming the Tide: Predicting STEM attrition using student transcript data.
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Bae, S., Halperin, D., West, J., Rosvall, M., & Howe, B. (2017). Scalable and Efficient Flow-Based Community Detection for Large-Scale Graph Analysis. In Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, 11 (3) , 32:1--32:30. ACM.
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Hiniker, A., Hong, S. R., Kim, Y., Chen, N., West, J., & Aragon, C. (2017). Toward the operationalization of visual metaphor. In Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68 (10) , 2338–2349. Wiley Online Library.
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Portenoy, J., & West, J. (2017). Visualizing Scholarly Publications and Citations to Enhance Author Profiles. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion (WWW): Workshop on Big Scholarly Data, 1279-1282.
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Lee, P., West, J., & Howe, W. G. (2017). Viziometrics: Analyzing Visual Information in the Scientific Literature. In IEEE Transactions on Big Data, PP (99) , IEEE.
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West, J., Wesley-Smith, I., & Bergstrom, C. T. (2016). A recommendation system based on hierarchical clustering of an article-level citation network. In IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2 (2) , 113-123. IEEE.
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Wesley-Smith, I., & West, J. (2016). Babel: A platform for facilitating research in scholarly article discovery. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, 389-394. ACM.
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West, J., & Bergstrom, C. T. (2016). Comparing Impact Factor and Scopus CiteScore.
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West, J., & Portenoy, J. (2016). Delineating Fields Using Mathematical Jargon. In Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL).
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Portenoy, J., & West, J. (2016). Dynamic Visualization of Citation Networks Showing the Influence of Scholarly Fields Over Time. In WWW Workshop on Semantics, Analytics, Visualization. Enhancing Scholarly Data, 147-151. Springer International Publishing.
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Chow, M., West, J., Bodman, S., & Egna, H. (2016). Examining Gender Authorship in Aquaculture Journals. Asian Fisheries and Aquaculture Forum.
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Aulck, L., Velagapudi, N., Blumenstock, J. E., & West, J. (2016). Predicting Student Dropout in Higher Education. In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Data4good: Machine Learning in Social Good Applications.
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Jain, S., Moritz, D., Howe, W. G., & Lazowska, E. (2016). SQLShare: Results from a Multi-Year SQL-as-a-Service Experiment. In SIGMOD '16: Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Management of Data, 281-293.
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Wesley-Smith, I., Bergstrom, C. T., & West, J. (2016). Static ranking of scholarly papers using Article-Level EigenFactor (ALEF). In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining.
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Walls, L., Edwards, I., Ho, T., West, J., & Spiro, E. (2016). Surveying Usage of Academic Research in Journalism . In UW iSchool Capstone.
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West, J., & Portenoy, J. (2016). The Data Gold Rush in Higher Education. In Sugimoto, C.R. and Ekbia, H. and Mattioli, M. (Ed.), Big Data Is Not a Monolith, chpt. 10, MIT Press.
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Portenoy, J., & West, J. (2016). Visualizing Scholarly Influence Over Time. In iSchool Conference.
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Lee, P., West, J., & Howe, W. G. (2016). VizioMetrix: A Platform for Analyzing the Visual Information in Big Scholarly Data. In BigScholar Workshop (Third WWW Workshop on Big Scholarly Data: Towards the Web of Scholars).
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Lee, P., West, J., & Howe, B. (2016). VizioMetrix: A Platform for Analyzing the Visual Information in Big Scholarly Data. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, 413-418. ACM.
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Wesley-Smith, I., Dandrea, R., & West, J. (2015). An Experimental Platform for Scholarly Article Recommendation. In 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval, 1344 (30-39) ,
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Greene, C., Kelly, M., Pradhan, P., Sinha, N., & West, J. (2015). Coursector. In UW iSchool Capstone .
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Sugimoto, C., Ni, C., West, J., & Larivière, V. (2015). The academic advantage: gender disparities in patenting. In PLoS One, 10 (5) , e0128000. PLoS.
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West, J., & Vilhena, D. (2014). A Network Approach to Scholarly Evaluation. In Blaise Cronin and Cassidy Sugimoto (Ed.), Beyond Bibliometrics: Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact, chpt. 8, 151-166. MIT Press.
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West, J., Bergstrom, T. C., & Bergstrom, C. T. (2014). Cost-effectiveness of open access publications. In Economic Inquiry, 52, 1315-1321. Wiley Blackwell.
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Carlson, E., Dillinger, A., Giorgi, J., Silpakit, N., Wittenbrook, N., & West, J. (2014). Course Connect. In UW iSchool Capstone.
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Vilhena, D. A., Foster, J. G., Rosvall, M., West, J., Evans, J. A., & Bergstrom, C. T. (2014). Finding Cultural Holes: How Structure and Culture Diverge in Networks of Scholarly Communication. In Sociological Science, 1, 221-238. Society for Sociological Science.
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Sugimoto, C., Ni, C., West, J., & Larivière, V. (2014). Innovative women: an analysis of global gender disparities in patenting. In International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, 611-615.
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Rosvall, M., Esquivel, A. V., Lancichinetti, A., West, J., & Lambiotte, R. (2014). Memory in network flows and its effects on spreading dynamics and community detection. In Nature Communications, 5 (4630) , Nature Publishing Group.
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West, J. (2014). Modifying the Eigenfactor Algorithm for improving interpretability. In ASIS&T Workshop on Informetric and Scientometric Research.
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Bae, S., Halperin, D., West, J., Rosvall, M., & Howe, B. (2014). Scalable Flow-Based Community Detection for Large-Scale Network Analysis . In 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Data Mining Workshops. IEEE Computer Society Press (also IEEE Xplore Digital Library).
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Larsen, K., Hovorka, D. S., West, J., Birt, J., Pfaff, J. R., Chambers, T. W., Sampedro, Z. R., Zager, N., & Vanstone, B. (2014). Theory Identity: A Machine-Learning Approach. In Proceedings of the 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). IEEE.
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Hong, R., Kim, Y., Hiniker, A., Kim, N., Aragon , C., & West, J. (2014). Using Visual Metaphor in Interactive Visualization to Improve Navigation of Complex Data Sets. In UW iSchool Research Fair.
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West, J., Jensen, M. C., Dandrea, R. J., Gordon, G. J., & Berstrom, C. T. (2013). Author-level Eigenfactor Metrics: Evaluating the Influence of Authors, Institutions, and Countries within the Social Science Research Network Community. In Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64 (4) , 787 - 801. Wiley Blackwell.
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Brooks, M., West, J., Aragon, C. R., & Bergstrom, C. T. (2013). Hoptrees: Branching History Navigation for Hierarchies. In Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8119 (2013) , 316 - 333. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
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West, J., Jacquet, J., King, M., Correll, S. J., & Bergstrom, C. T. (2013). The Role of Gender in Scholarly Authorship. In PLoS One, 8 (7) , e66212. Public Library of Science.
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West, J., & Bergstrom, C. T. (2011). Can Ignorance Promote Democracy?. In Science, 334, 1503 - 1504. Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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West, J., Bergstrom, T. C., & Bergstrom, C. T. (2010). Big Macs and Eigenfactor Scores: Don't Let Correlation Coefficients Fool You. In Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61 (9) , 1800 - 1807. Wiley Blackwell.
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West, J. (2010). Eigenfactor: ranking and mapping scientific knowledge .
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West, J. (2010). How to improve the use of metrics: Learn from Game Theory. In Nature, 465, 871 - 872. Nature Publishing Group.
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West, J., Bergstrom, T. C., & Bergstrom, C. T. (2010). Response to “Big Macs and Eigenfactors: The Correlation Conundrum". In Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61 (12) , 2592.
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West, J., Bergstrom, T. C., & Bergstrom, C. T. (2010). The Eigenfactor Metrics: A Network Approach to Assessing Scholarly Journals. In College and Research Libraries, 71 (3) , 236-244. Association of College & Research Libraries.
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Althouse, B. M., Bergstrom, C. T., & West, J. (2009). A Novel Method for Ranking the Quality of Cardiology Literature. In American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions.
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Prado, F., Sheih, A., West, J., & Kerr, B. (2009). Coevolutionary cycling of host sociality and pathogen virulence in contact networks. In Journal of Theoretical Biology, 261 (4) , 561 - 569. Elsevier.
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Althouse, B. M., West, J., Bergstrom, C. T., & Bergstrom, T. C. (2009). Differences in Impact Factor across fields and over time. In Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60 (1) , 27-34.
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West, J., Stefaner, M., & Bergstrom, C. T. (2009). The Eigenfactor Metrics: How does the Journal of Biological Chemistry stack up?. In American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, (April) , 20-21.
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Bergstrom, C. T., & West, J. (2008). Assessing Citations with the Eigenfactor Metrics. In Neurology, 71, 1850 - 1851.
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West, J., & Bergstrom, C. T. (2008). Calculating Author-Level Eigenfactors. In Eigenfactor.org.
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West, J., & Bergstrom, C. T. (2008). Calculating Journal-Level Eigenfactors. In Eigenfactor.org.
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Bergstrom, C. T., & West, J. (2008). Compressed Source Code for the Eigenfactor Calculation. In Eigenfactor.org.
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West, J. (2008). Eigenfactor - The Google Approach to Bibliometrics. In Front Matter, 4, 1-7. Allen Press.
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Bergstrom, C. T., West, J., & Wiseman, M. A. (2008). The Eigenfactor Metrics. In Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 11433 - 11434. Society of Neuroscience.
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West, J., Rosvall, M., Althouse, B. M., & Bergstrom, C. T. (2007). Ranking and Mapping Scholarly Literature. In Gordon Research Conference.
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West, J., Peak, D., Peterson, J., & Mott, K. A. (2005). Dynamics of stomatal patches for a single surface of Xanthium strumarium L. leaves observed with fluorescence and thermal images. In Plant, Cell and Environment, 28 (5) , 633-641.
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Peak, D., West, J., Messinger, S., & Mott, K. A. (2004). Evidence for complex, collective dynamics and emergent, distributed computation in plants. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101 (4) , 918-922.
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Torrance, A., & West, J. Patent Analytics: Information From Innovation. In Katz, M. and Bommarito, M.J. and Dolin, R. (Ed.), Legal Informatics. MIT Press.