Publications

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Preprints

• COMO: Closed-Loop Optical Molecule Recognition with Minimum Risk Training
  Zhuoqi Lyu, Q Ke
  (2026)
  arXiv | models & data | como-ocsr package | Github

• Not too long do read: Evaluating LLM-generated extreme scientific summaries
  Zhuoqi Lyu, Q Ke
  arXiv:2512.23206 (2025)

• Periodical embeddings uncover hidden interdisciplinary patterns in the subject classification scheme of science
  Zhuoqi Lyu, Q Ke
  arXiv:2512.22524 (2025)

• MorganBERT: Chemical substructure sequences meet language models for property prediction
  Q Ke, Junjie Dong
  ChemRxiv (2025)

• Temporal search in the scientific space predicts breakthrough inventions
  C Min, Q Ke
  arXiv:2107.09176 (2021)

Published

2026

• Conservative adventurers have more future academic impact

  X Yang, Z Ke, X Xiao, Q Ke, H Zhang, F Gao

  Scientometrics ,

  arXiv
• Towards understanding evolution of science through language model series

  Junjie Dong, Zhuoqi Lyu, Q Ke

  ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 17, 114

  arXiv

  
• The geography of novel and atypical research

  Q Ke, Tianxing Pan, J Mao

  Research Policy 55, 105345

  arXiv Data Code

  

2025

• Mapping the changing structure of science through diachronic periodical embeddings

  Zhuoqi Lyu, Q Ke

  Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 201, 117295

  arXiv Code

  
• Help me screen: Analyzing and predicting the success of start-ups in dynamic venture capital networks

  S Lyu, X Li, S Hong, Q Ke, J Gu, K Zhang, H Zhang

  ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 16, 129

  arXiv

2024

• Decoding the writing styles of disciplines: A large-scale quantitative analysis

  S Dong, J Mao, Q Ke, L Pei

  Information Processing & Management 61, 103718
• Reply to Vaccario et al.: The role of baselines in fair and unbiased citation metric evaluation.

  AJ Gates, Q Ke, AL Barabási

  PNAS 121, e2410675121

2023

• A network-based normalized impact measure reveals successful periods of scientific discovery across disciplines

  Q Ke, AJ Gates, AL Barabási

  PNAS 120, e2309378120

  Cover

  
• Interdisciplinary research and technological impact: Evidence from biomedicine

  Q Ke

  Scientometrics 128, 2035–2077

  arXiv

  

2022

• A dataset of mentorship in bioscience with semantic and demographic estimations

  Q Ke, L Liang, Y Ding, SV David, DE Acuna

  Scientific Data 9, 467

  arXiv Data Code

  

2021

• Neural embeddings of scholarly periodicals reveal complex disciplinary organizations

  H Peng, Q Ke, C Budak, DM Romero, YY Ahn

  Science Advances 7, eabb9004

  arXiv Data Code

  

2020

• An analysis of the evolution of science-technology linkage in biomedicine

  Q Ke

  Journal of Informetrics 14, 101074

  arXiv

  
• Technological impact of biomedical research: The role of basicness and novelty

  Q Ke

  Research Policy 49, 104071

  arXiv

  
• The citation disadvantage of clinical research

  Q Ke

  Journal of Informetrics 14, 100998

  arXiv

  

2019

• Nature's reach: narrow work has broad impact

  AJ Gates, Q Ke, O Varol, AL Barabási

  Nature 575, 32-34

  Cover Video Interactive 2020 Webby Awards for NetArt

  
• Identifying translational science through embeddings of controlled vocabularies

  Q Ke

  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 26, 516-523

  arXiv Data Code

  

2018

• Comparing scientific and technological impact of biomedical research

  Q Ke

  Journal of Informetrics 12, 706-717

  arXiv

  

2017

• Service providers of the sharing economy: Who joins and who benefits?

  Q Ke

  Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 1, 57

  arXiv Best Paper Honorable Mentions

  
• Sharing means renting?: An entire-marketplace analysis of Airbnb

  Q Ke

  Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Web Science Conference , 131-139

  arXiv

  
• A systematic identification and analysis of scientists on Twitter

  Q Ke, YY Ahn, CR Sugimoto

  PLoS ONE 12, e0175368

  arXiv Data Nature News LSE Impact Blog

  

2015

• Defining and identifying Sleeping Beauties in science

  Q Ke, E Ferrara, F Radicchi, A Flammini

  PNAS 112, 7426-7431

  arXiv Data Project

  

2014

• Tie strength distribution in scientific collaboration networks

  Q Ke, YY Ah

  Physical Review E 90, 032804

  arXiv Data Code

  

Others

• Scientific birds of a feather flock together: science communication on social media rarely happens across or beyond disciplinary boundaries
  Q Ke, YY Ahn, CR Sugimoto
  Impact of Social Sciences Blog (2017)

• Social media metrics as indicators of broader impact
  CR Sugimoto, S Haustein, Q Ke, V Larivière
  OECD Blue Sky III Forum on Science and Innovation Indicators (2016)