Duncan J. Watts
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Australian physicist and sociologist
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Duncan J. Watts's Degrees
- PhD Theoretical Physics Cornell University
Why Is Duncan J. Watts Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Duncan James Watts is a sociologist and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He was formerly a principal researcher at Microsoft Research in New York City, and is known for his work on small-world networks.
Duncan J. Watts's Published Works
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Published Works
- Collective dynamics of ‘small-world’ networks (1998) (37310)
- Random graphs with arbitrary degree distributions and their applications. (2000) (3434)
- Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (2003) (2313)
- A simple model of global cascades on random networks (2002) (2265)
- The science of fake news (2018) (2192)
- Network robustness and fragility: percolation on random graphs. (2000) (2124)
- Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market (2006) (1918)
- Influentials, Networks, and Public Opinion Formation (2007) (1821)
- Everyone's an influencer: quantifying influence on twitter (2011) (1820)
- Redefine statistical significance (2017) (1806)
- Empirical Analysis of an Evolving Social Network (2006) (1676)
- Networks, Dynamics, and the Small‐World Phenomenon1 (1999) (1425)
- Random graph models of social networks (2002) (1388)
- Renormalization Group Analysis of the Small-World Network Model (1999) (1273)
- The “New” Science of Networks (2004) (1194)
- Scaling and percolation in the small-world network model. (1999) (1046)
- Identity and Search in Social Networks (2002) (1004)
- Financial incentives and the "performance of crowds" (2009) (974)
- Who says what to whom on twitter (2011) (934)
- An Experimental Study of Search in Global Social Networks (2003) (806)
- Origins of Homophily in an Evolving Social Network1 (2009) (763)
- Predicting consumer behavior with Web search (2010) (620)
- The Structure and Dynamics of Networks: (Princeton Studies in Complexity) (2006) (595)
- The Structural Virality of Online Diffusion (2015) (494)
- Universal behavior in a generalized model of contagion. (2004) (467)
- Book Review: Small Worlds. The Dynamics of Networks Between Order and Randomness (2000) (444)
- Mean-field solution of the small-world network model. (1999) (390)
- A generalized model of social and biological contagion. (2005) (381)
- The structure of online diffusion networks (2012) (377)
- Social Cohesion (2021) (366)
- Cooperation and Contagion in Web-Based, Networked Public Goods Experiments (2011) (364)
- The structure of information pathways in a social communication network (2008) (356)
- A twenty-first century science (2007) (318)
- Multiscale, resurgent epidemics in a hierarchical metapopulation model. (2005) (312)
- Collaborative learning in networks (2011) (301)
- Prediction and explanation in social systems (2017) (289)
- Cooperation in Evolving Social Networks (2007) (256)
- Designing Resilient , Sustainable Systems (254)
- Leading the Herd Astray: An Experimental Study of Self-fulfilling Prophecies in an Artificial Cultural Market (2008) (251)
- Information exchange and the robustness of organizational networks (2003) (229)
- Viral marketing for the real world (2007) (218)
- Viral marketing for the real world (2007) (218)
- Evaluating the fake news problem at the scale of the information ecosystem (2019) (201)
- Inferring relevant social networks from interpersonal communication (2010) (195)
- Should social science be more solution-oriented? (2017) (187)
- Real and perceived attitude agreement in social networks. (2010) (185)
- Cooperation and assortativity with dynamic partner updating (2012) (179)
- Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer (2011) (164)
- Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities (2020) (141)
- Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration (2020) (134)
- Web-Based Experiments for the Study of Collective Social Dynamics in Cultural Markets (2009) (126)
- Social Influence, Binary Decisions and Collective Dynamics (2008) (119)
- Exploring Limits to Prediction in Complex Social Systems (2016) (117)
- Cooperation and contagion in web-based, networked public goods experiments. (2010) (104)
- Characterizing individual communication patterns (2009) (91)
- An Experimental Study of Team Size and Performance on a Complex Task (2016) (89)
- Estimating the Causal Impact of Recommendation Systems from Observational Data (2015) (85)
- Integrating explanation and prediction in computational social science (2021) (81)
- Common Sense and Sociological Explanations1 (2014) (79)
- Prediction without markets (2010) (67)
- Everything is obvious : how common sense fails (2011) (61)
- Viral Marketing for the Real World Duncan J. Watts, Jonah Peretti, and Michael Frumin (2007) (53)
- Viral Marketing for the Real World Duncan J. Watts, Jonah Peretti, and Michael Frumin (2007) (53)
- Dissecting the Spirit of Gezi: Influence vs. Selection in the Occupy Gezi Movement. (2015) (49)
- Social search in "Small-World" experiments (2009) (49)
- Threshold Models of Social Influence (2011) (47)
- Objecting to experiments that compare two unobjectionable policies or treatments (2019) (42)
- Political Ideology and Racial Preferences in Online Dating (2014) (41)
- Resilient cooperators stabilize long-run cooperation in the finitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma (2016) (35)
- The virtual lab (2013) (35)
- Examining the consumption of radical content on YouTube (2020) (33)
- The accidental influentials (2011) (32)
- Measuring the news and its impact on democracy (2021) (32)
- Empirical agent based models of cooperation in public goods games (2013) (30)
- A Simple Model of Fads and Cascading Failures on Sparse Switching Networks (2000) (28)
- Seis Grados De Separacion / Six Degrees: La ciencia de las redes en la era del acceso/The Science of a Connected Age (Transiciones / Transitions) (2006) (24)
- Task complexity moderates group synergy (2021) (20)
- Inside Money, Procyclical Leverage, and Banking Catastrophes (2014) (20)
- Evaluating the scale, growth, and origins of right-wing echo chambers on YouTube (2020) (19)
- Response to Turco and Zuckerman’s “Verstehen for Sociology” (2017) (19)
- Cooperation and Contagion in Networked Public Goods Experiments (2010) (19)
- Empirica: a virtual lab for high-throughput macro-level experiments (2020) (18)
- Collective Problem Solving in Networks (2011) (18)
- Is Justin Timberlake a product of cumulative advantage (2007) (18)
- Is Justin Timberlake a product of cumulative advantage (2007) (18)
- Long-run learning in games of cooperation (2014) (17)
- Marketing in an unpredictable world (2006) (17)
- What Can Search Predict ? (2010) (17)
- Marketing in an unpredictable world (2006) (17)
- Reducing opinion polarization: Effects of exposure to similar people with differing political views (2021) (17)
- Networks, Dynamics, and the Smafl-World (1999) (16)
- Social influence: the puzzling nature of success in cultural markets (2009) (16)
- Social influence: the puzzling nature of success in cultural markets (2009) (16)
- Networks, Dynamics, and the Smafl-World (1999) (16)
- The collective dynamics of belief (2007) (15)
- The collective dynamics of belief (2007) (15)
- Don’t blame the election on fake news. Blame it on the media. (2017) (15)
- Research note: Examining potential bias in large-scale censored data (2021) (12)
- Split-door criterion: Identification of causal effects through auxiliary outcomes (2016) (12)
- Six Degrees: The New Science of Networks (Collective Dynamics Group ISERP -- Columbia University) Course Syllabus (2008) (11)
- Computational Social Science: Exciting Progress and Future Challenges (2016) (11)
- Quantifying partisan news diets in Web and TV audiences (2022) (10)
- Predicting history (2019) (9)
- A Large-Scale Comparative Study of Informal Social Networks in Firms (2021) (8)
- Comparing Estimates of News Consumption from Survey and Passively Collected Behavioral Data (2021) (8)
- Split-door criterion for causal identification: Automatic search for natural experiments (2016) (7)
- Collective Problem-Solving of Groups Across Tasks of Varying Complexity (2020) (7)
- Explanation, prediction, and causality: Three sides of the same coin? (2018) (7)
- The Science Behind Six Degrees (2003) (6)
- Measuring News Consumption With Behavioral Versus Survey Data (2020) (5)
- A twenty-first century science If handled appropriately, data about Internet-based communication and interactivity could revolutionize our understanding of collective human behaviour. (2007) (5)
- Cooperation and assortativity with endogenous partner selection (2012) (4)
- Information Exchange and Robustness of Organizational Networks April 2003 (2003) (4)
- Ideas innovadoras para 2007 (2007) (4)
- Rebuilding legitimacy in a post-truth age (2017) (3)
- The new international GLE database (2001) (3)
- Material for Empirical Analysis of an Evolving Social Network (2005) (3)
- Objecting to experiments even while approving of the policies or treatments they compare (2020) (3)
- Small Worlds (2018) (3)
- Rejoinder to Lewis (2015) (3)
- Six degrees of interconnection (2003) (2)
- Common Sense and Sociological Explanations 1 (2015) (2)
- Using the web to do social science (2010) (2)
- Exact solution of percolation on random graphs with arbitrary degree distributions (2000) (2)
- Six degrees of interconnection (2003) (2)
- Scaling up experimental social, behavioral, and economic science (2021) (2)
- Conversation: The science behind six degrees (2003) (2)
- 4.1 RANDOM GRAPH MODELS (2011) (1)
- Reply to Mislavsky et al.: Sometimes people really are averse to experiments (2019) (1)
- Small-World Networks (2016) (1)
- Sometimes People Dislike Experiments More than They Dislike Their Worst Conditions: Within-Subjects Evidence for “Experiment Aversion” and the A/B Effect (2019) (1)
- THE "NEW "S CIENCE OF NETWORKS (2004) (1)
- The paradox that is common sense (2011) (1)
- Deplatforming did not decrease Parler users’ activity on fringe social media (2023) (1)
- The Measure of All Things (2011) (1)
- Recovery and analysis of social networks from discrete interactions DRAFT – please do not distribute (2006) (1)
- Success stories cause false beliefs about success (2021) (1)
- Cascades of culture: Exploring extreme variation and extreme unpredictability with modeling and experiments (2005) (1)
- Long-run cooperation (2016) (0)
- 1 Title : Redefine Statistical Significance (2017) (0)
- Team Size in Crisis Mapping (2016) (0)
- The Structure of Complex Problems (2008) (0)
- 4.2 THE SMALL-WORLD MODEL (2011) (0)
- 5.1 EPIDEMICS AND RUMORS (2011) (0)
- Random graph models of soc (2016) (0)
- Protecting Rights in Britain (1998) (0)
- Empirical Methods for CS : Reading List (2013) (0)
- Beyond Playing 20 Questions with Nature: Integrative Experiment Design in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. (2022) (0)
- Computational Social Science: Exciting Progress and Grand Challenges (2013) (0)
- 5.3 SEARCHING NETWORKS (2011) (0)
- Why everything that seems obvious isn't (2011) (0)
- 5.2 ROBUSTNESS OF NETWORKS (2011) (0)
- Materials and Individual Data Files (2018) (0)
- Cosmology with CLASS (2018) (0)
- W3233 -- Networks and Complexity in Social Systems (Collective Dynamics Group ISERP -- Columbia University) Course Syllabus (2008) (0)
- The mass media (2013) (0)
- Code for analyzing aggregated data (2016) (0)
- Master Data File and Analysis Scripts (2018) (0)
- Protecting liberties, advancing rights (2013) (0)
- 9. Global Synchrony in Populations of Coupled Phase Oscillators (1999) (0)
- Redefine statistical significance (2017) (0)
- Supplement to : Budak , Ceren , and Duncan J . Watts (2015) (0)
- Democracy in theory and practice (2013) (0)
- 4.3 MODELS OF SCALE-FREE NETWORKS (2011) (0)
- Predicting history (2019) (0)
- Self-fulfilling prophecies in cultural markets: An experimental approach (2006) (0)
- Colloquium Random graph models of social networks (2009) (0)
- Dynamic Network Analysis of a University Community (2006) (0)
- Political Ideology and Racial Homogamy (2013) (0)
- Chapter Six. Outlook (2011) (0)
- Voting and elections (2013) (0)
- Governance beyond the centre (2013) (0)
- Small-world networks Regular and random networks (2007) (0)
- Aggregated data for analysis (2016) (0)
- 10. The Collective Dynamics of Belief (2007) (0)
- IPP 2012 : Big Data Keynote by Duncan Watts (2013) (0)
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