Jacob G. Foster, Ph.D.

Affiliations: 
2013- Sociology University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 
Area:
metaknowledge, science and technology, social theory, computational social science, networks, complex systems, cultural evolution, game theory
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http://www.sociology.ucla.edu/faculty/jacob-foster
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Peter Grassberger grad student 2006-2010 University of Calgary
Maya Paczuski grad student 2006-2010 University of Calgary
James A. Evans post-doc 2010-2013 Chicago (SocTree)

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Christopher Ross Esposito grad student 2014-2021 UCLA (GeograTree)
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Evans J, Foster JG. (2019) Computation and the Sociological Imagination Contexts. 18: 10-15
Rzhetsky A, Foster JG, Foster IT, et al. (2015) Choosing experiments to accelerate collective discovery. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Foster JG, Rzhetsky A, Evans JA. (2015) Tradition and Innovation in Scientists’ Research Strategies American Sociological Review. 80: 875-908
Shi F, Foster JG, Evans JA. (2015) Weaving the fabric of science: Dynamic network models of science's unfolding structure Social Networks. 43
Vilhena D, Foster J, Rosvall M, et al. (2014) Finding Cultural Holes: How Structure and Culture Diverge in Networks of Scholarly Communication Sociological Science. 1: 221-238
Foster DV, Foster JG, Grassberger P, et al. (2011) Clustering drives assortativity and community structure in ensembles of networks. Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 84: 066117
Evans JA, Foster JG. (2011) Metaknowledge. Science (New York, N.Y.). 331: 721-5
Foster DV, Foster JG, Grassberger P, et al. (2011) Clustering drives assortativity and community structure in ensembles of networks Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 84
Foster JG, Foster DV, Grassberger P, et al. (2010) Edge direction and the structure of networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107: 10815-20
Foster D, Foster J, Paczuski M, et al. (2010) Communities, clustering phase transitions, and hysteresis: pitfalls in constructing network ensembles. Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 81: 046115
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