Hao Peng (彭浩)

About

Hao Peng is a Postdoc at Kellogg School of Management. He works with Brian Uzzi at the Northwestern University Institute on Complex Systems. He is interested in computational social science and data science. His research focuses on innovation, leadership, communication, social identity, and the intersections of these topics. His current research studies the mechanisms involved in the production and dissemination of novel ideas in science. He obtained a PhD from University of Michigan School of Information and a BS degree in Information Management from Sun Yat-sen University in China.

Updates

• 09/2022:   New paper studying novelty and paper acceptance published in PNAS!
• 04/2022:   New paper studying retracted papers and their misinformation online published in PNAS!
• 10/2021:   Our team won the best paper award in the SIG-MET Workshop at ASIS&T 2021!
• 02/2021:   New paper accepted by Science Advances! Check out this interactive map of science.
• 11/2020:   New paper studying the speed of information diffusion accepted by PRE!
• 09/2020:  New Scientist wrote a story about our paper on ethnic bias in author mentions in science reporting!
• 09/2019:   Our Echo Demo won the 2nd Prize in the John Hunter Excellence in Plotting Contest at SciPy 2019!

Selected Publications

Please visit my Google Scholar profile for more details on my publications.

• Is Novel Research Worth Doing? Evidence From Peer Review at 49 Journals
  Misha Teplitskiy, Hao Peng, Andrea Blasco, Karim R. Lakhani
  PNAS 119, e2118046119 (2022)
  Link | PDF
  Press: Michigan News
• Dynamics of Cross-Platform Attention to Retracted Papers
  Hao Peng, Daniel M. Romero, Emőke-Ágnes Horvát
  PNAS 119, e2119086119 (2022)
  Link | PDF | Code
  Press: Washington Post | Northwestern Now | Inside Higher ED | Retraction Watch
• Neural Embeddings of Scholarly Periodicals Reveal Complex Disciplinary Organizations
  Hao Peng, Qing Ke, Ceren Budak, Daniel M. Romero, Yong-Yeol Ahn
  Science Advances 7, eabb9004 (2021)
  Link | PDF | Code | Map
• Network Modularity Controls the Speed of Information Diffusion
  Hao Peng, Azadeh Nematzadeh, Daniel M. Romero, Emilio Ferrara
  Physical Review E 102, 052316 (2020)
  Link | PDF | Code
• Social Influence and Unfollowing Accelerate the Emergence of Echo Chambers
  Kazutoshi Sasahara, Wen Chen, Hao Peng, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer
  Journal of Computational Social Science (2020)
  Link | Demo
  Press: Scientific American | The Conversation | Yahoo!

Fun

I shoot landscape and portrait photography. I enjoy workout. I love authentic Asian food.