Let's Go Team!

JDMers,

I recently came across a research report in the journal Science that quantitatively measured the impact of teamwork on the production of knowledge. The main findings of Wuchti, Jones, and Uzzi (2007) include: (a) research is increasingly done in teams in virtually all fields (scientific journals & patents), (b) teams produce the highest impact (i.e. more highly cited) research, and (c) these trends are increasing over time.

I met this past weekend with Andy Whitmore - a fellow doctoral student at Albany (also a groomsman in my wedding) - and we discussed a strategy for conducting research that will benefit us both. Knowing that our primary goal is to graduate ASAP, we have chosen research questions that will aid us in attaining this goal.

We should use this forum - as well as our monthly meetings in Albany - to find avenues of collaboration that can benefit us all. Individually none of us may be the likes of Ken Hammond, but together we can become the next hub of JDM research!

~RMT

Berkeley Interview - Daniel Kahneman

Hey All,

I think this interview with Kahneman is really interesting.

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people7/Kahneman/kahneman-con0.html


~RMT

CCT Citation Network

Hello All,

I am currently working on a literature review of Cognitive Continuum Theory from 1980 to 2007. Social network analysis is being used to map the literature in the form of a citation network. The image below is a visualization of the work-in-progress - a few more nodes will be added shortly. However, I thought I'd give you a snippet. Node size is a function of the number of times a particular work is cited. Hammond (1996) and Hammond, Hamm, Grassia, & Pearson (1987) are the two largest nodes. The green nodes are part of the fastest growing CCT subfield, those works in the domain of medical decision making. Enjoy!
~RMT