Postdoctoral researcher at Université de Montréal
🇦🇷 →🇫🇷→🇱🇺→🇨🇦(⚜️)
Pol Econ → Data Science → Science of Science
(he/him/él/lui)
Diego Kozlowski
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🔍 TL;DR
Citation behaviour isn’t a meritocracy.
It’s shaped by social ties and topic overlap.
Let’s rethink how we evaluate research impact.
📚 Full paper → journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
#Bibliometrics #ScienceOfScience #ResearchPolicy
New preprint out: "Keyword Newspeak: Trump’s Orwellian Censorship of DEI in Science"
osf.io/wkvs5_v1
We examine the presence of flagged keywords in NSF-funded research from 1988 to 2024.
w/ @caropradier.bsky.social, É. Marteau, @diegokoz.bsky.social, @lucyces.bsky.social, @lariviev.bsky.social
My first preprint is out!
Gender parity in autism research: A bibliometric review.
🌐 doi.org/10.31219/osf...
👥 We worked together on this, with @diegokoz.bsky.social , Audrey Gan-Ganowicz and @lariviev.bsky.social!
#Autismresearch #Bibliometrics #GenderParity
Details in comments👇
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💡 Implication: Citation counts don’t just reflect “impact” — they reflect who you know and what you study.
Evaluating research solely through citations can reinforce inequalities.
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So what does this mean?
Most citations come from proximity — social and intellectual.
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🧩 Caveat: We studied U.S. economics.
Patterns may differ elsewhere, but the same forces appear across many fields — though with different strengths.
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Main result:
Papers are much more likely to cite others by people they’re socially close to (coauthors or collaborators-of-collaborators).
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🚨 New paper out in PLOS ONE! w/ @caropradier.bsky.social @benzpierre.bsky.social @natsush.bsky.social @ipoga.bsky.social @lariviev.bsky.social
We studied 43k authors and 264k citation links in U.S. economics to ask:
👉 Why do some papers cite others?
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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🧠 Semantic similarity also matters!
If two papers talk about similar topics, they’re more likely to cite each other.
🌟 Prestige? Less powerful than expected.
Citations have an effect only when they’re far from your social or topic network.
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We examined three main factors behind citations:
👥 Social proximity (are authors connected?)
🧠 Semantic similarity (are papers about the same thing?)
🌟 Prestige (is the author already well-known?)
