Choosing experiments to accelerate collective discovery

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 47, 2015, Pages 14569-14574

  Rzhetsky, Andrey ^a,b   Foster, Jacob G ^c   Foster, Ian T ^a,d   Evans, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex networks; Computational biology; Innovation; Science of science; Sociology of science

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXPERIMENT; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; SCIENCE; SCIENTIST; SIMULATION; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; PUBLICATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

HUMANS; PUBLICATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH; RISK-TAKING; SCIENCE;

EID: 84948160271     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1509757112     Document Type: Article

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