Duncan J. Watts

University of Pennsylvania

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Top expertise

  • Computational and Text Analysis Methods

    Strong evidence · 6 supporting papers · latest 2026

  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation

    Solid evidence · 1 supporting paper · latest 2026

  • Team Dynamics and Performance

    Solid evidence · 1 supporting paper · latest 2025

  • Media Influence and Politics

    Solid evidence · 1 supporting paper · latest 2026

  • Language and cultural evolution

    Solid evidence · 1 supporting paper · latest 2026

  • Advanced Causal Inference Techniques

    Solid evidence · 1 supporting paper · latest 2026

  • Misinformation and Its Impacts

    Solid evidence · 2 supporting papers · latest 2026

  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis

    Solid evidence · 1 supporting paper · latest 2026

Publications (15)

  • The Media Bias Detector: A framework for annotating and analyzing the news

    2026DOIPMID 42715323

  • The Task Space: An Integrative Framework for Team Research

    2025DOI

  • Integrative experiments identify how punishment affects welfare in public goods games

    2026DOIPMID 41955365

  • Quantifying the prevalence and impact of overreaching causal claims in social science

    2026DOIPMID 42637914

  • A large-scale evaluation of commonsense knowledge in humans and large language models

    2026DOIPMID 41766962

  • Empirical Trajectory Sparsity Biases Mobility-Informed Epidemic Modeling

    2026DOI

  • LLM-Assisted Reranking to Operationalize Nuanced Objectives in Recommender Systems

    2026DOI

  • Computational social science: past, present, and future

    2025DOI

  • Rethinking news framing with large language models

    2025DOIPMID 41315581

  • Craft, Curiosity, and Knowledge: Duncan Watts in Conversation with Philipp Brandt

    2026DOI

  • The Media Bias Detector: A framework for annotating and analyzing the news

    2026DOI

  • Algorithmic systems, human agency and the future of platform research

    2026DOIPMID 42768229

  • A large-scale evaluation of commonsense knowledge in humans and large language models

    2026DOI

  • The Media Bias Detector: A framework for annotating and analyzing the news

    2026DOI

  • The Media Bias Detector: A framework for annotating and analyzing the news

    2026DOI

Organizations in sourced records

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  • University of Pennsylvania

Source: OpenAlex · retrieved 2026-09-29

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