Dr. Tang is invited to present at the UFII Covid-19 Seed Awardees Virtual Seminar Series and his talk is titled:
Covid-19, an accelerator of science: Evidence from convergence in collaboration and language
Friday, December 11, 2020
12:00PM – 1:00PM
Via Zoom
Dr. Tang looked at evidence for convergence in collaboration and language driven by COVID-19 research and suggest that COVID-19 is a potential accelerator of science.
Abstract: How do science and scientific collaboration respond to global health crises? Do these crises reinforce, accelerate or disrupt normal trends in the production of science? This project analyzes CORD-19, a growing dataset of over 200,000 scientific articles published about coronavirus/Covid-19 over the years, and Dimensions, a global bibliographic database, to study the impacts of Covid-19 on global trends in scientific production and collaboration.…. Click here to read the full abstract.
For the recorded talk, please click here.