Diana Hicks
Biographic Data
| ID | 3919737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana Hicks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana |
| FAMILY NAME | Hicks |
| SIGNATURE | HICKS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Blending the two communities: Concurrent evidence use in state-level policy processes
The evidence-based paradigm is one way to ensure public resources are put to effective use. But the uptake of scientific evidence has been limited. We analyse US state reports on autonomous vehicles and the opioid crisis response to explore how evidence is used in state-level processes. We find evidence of three knowledge types -scientific, practice, and political - visible in the reports and extend existing work on knowledge types in use to illu…
Technology readiness levels for policy making: Lessons from the autonomous vehicle hype cycle
Emerging technologies arrive accompanied by promotional hype that can distort policy responses, prompting governments to pursue premature regulatory action or inappropriate interventions. This study proposes that policy advisers use Technology Readiness Levels to cut through technological hype and calibrate policy recommendations to technological maturity. We develop a framework that pairs four stages of technology development (research, developm…
Steering the future: Expert knowledge and stakeholder voices in autonomous vehicle policy reports
The anticipated arrival of autonomous vehicles has created considerable uncertainty for US states because they govern roads. In response, states activated their policy advisory systems. While policy advising at the national level has been studied, less is known about the sub-national level. Similarly, more is known about the use of scientific knowledge by policymakers than about the full range of knowledge deployed in policy advising. This study …
Seeing impact: Genres referencing journal articles
This paper examines the societal impact of research from the perspective of interconnected genres. Information reaches professionals outside academia through many different types of documents. Those documents often connect with scholarship by referencing academic work, mentioning professors, or publishing articles authored by scholars. Here the pattern of referencing to journal articles is compared across professional genres. Such citation counts…
Powerful numbers: Exemplary quantitative studies of science that had policy impact
Much scientometric research aims to be relevant to policy, but such research only rarely has a notable policy impact. In this paper, we examine four exemplary cases of policy impact from quantitative studies of science. The cases are analyzed in light of lessons learned about the use of evidence in policy making in health services, which provides very thorough explorations of the problems inherent in policy use of academic research. The analysis …
Pathways From Research Into Public Decision Making: Intermediaries as the Third Community
Scholars and practitioners in public administration have often been referred to as the two communities, reflecting their differing incentives, constraints, and foci. In this paper, we examine the knowledge surrounding the use of empirical evidence in public decision making from both the academic and practice of policymaking literatures. After identifying points of convergence, we compare the important factors identified in each literature to four…
A Cartography of Philosophy’s Engagement with Society
Providing Public Servants What They Need: Revealing the “Unseen” through Data Visualization
Electronic media has enabled new forms of communication with the potential to provide more effective means of conveying evidence to public servants. This article explores what is known about the use of these new capacities in public affairs to visualize the results of research. The authors first explore the value of visual engagement for increasing comprehension. Then, they examine what is known of studies of the effectiveness of visualization an…
What is an emerging technology?
Bibliometrics: The Leiden Manifesto for research metrics
Ista mjerila nisu prikladna za sve: O međusobnoj prilagodbi nacionalnih evaluacijskih sustava i objavljivanja u društvenim znanostima
Posljednjih desetljea vlasti trae veu odgovornost korisnika javnog novca.* U tim okolnostima, sveuilita su se suoila s izmijenjenim reimima financiranja
The New York Times as a Resource for Mode 2
The New York Times ( NYT) receives more citations from academic journals than the American Sociological Review, Research Policy, or the Harvard Law Review. This article explores the reasons why scholars cite the NYT so much. Reasons include studying the newspaper itself or New York City, establishing public interest in a topic by referencing press coverage, introducing specificity, and treating the NYT very much like an academic journal. The phen…
Performance-based university research funding systems
Equity and Excellence in Research Funding
The difficulty of achieving full coverage of international social science literature and the bibliometric consequences
Links between race/ethnicity and cultural values as mediated by racial/ethnic identity and moderated by gender
Two studies examined whether individualism (orientation toward one's own welfare), collectivism (orientation toward the welfare of one's larger community), and familism (orientation toward the welfare of one's immediate and extended family) are distinct cultural values predicted by race/ ethnicity. The 3 constructs proved to be separate dimensions, although collectivism and familism were positively correlated. In Study 1, persons of color scored …
Where Is Science Going
Do researchers produce scientific and technical knowledge differently than they did ten years ago? What will scientific research look like ten years from now? Addressing such questions means looking at science from a dynamic systems perspective. Two recent books about the social system of science, by Ziman and by Gibbons, Limoges, Nowotny, Schwartzman, Scott, and Trow, accept this challenge and argue that the research enterprise is changing. This…
University-industry research links in Japan
Instrumentation, Interdisciplinary Knowledge, and Research Performance in Spin Glass and Superfluid Helium Three
Interviews with researchers in two fields of condensed matter physics point to differences in their strategies for success. In one, synthesizing interdisciplinary knowledge takes priority over developing sophisticated instrumentation; in the other, developing instru ments is crucial. As a result, the fields differ in other ways, such as growth rates, presence of dilettantes, and freedom available to plan experiments. The differing priority given …
Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: A Reflexive Citation Analysis or Science Disciplines and Disciplining Science
This paper takes the form of a double text which simultaneously investigates the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) through citation analysis, and investigates citation analysis using theoretical ideas from SSK and Foucault. One strand of the text performs an analysis of citation patterns in SSK. This text identifies the figures who have had the most impact through their articles and books, and examines the possible effects of cultural and l…
Limitations and More Limitations of Co-Citation Analysis/Bibliometric Modelling: A Reply to Franklin
technique as it is applied to policy-oriented studies. At that time the results of previous policy studies indicated that substantial development of the technique and research into its validity would be necessary before cocitation analysis could become a routine policy analysis tool. Despite these indications the discussion in the literature seemed unbalanced. Because of the extensive resources necessary to produce a study, work relating to polic…
Limitations of Co-Citation Analysis as a Tool for Science Policy
Co-citation analysis, a tool initially developed for use in science studies, is entering the science-policy arena where the technical demands placed on data differ. Comparison of co-citation data and a manually generated bibliography of a physics specialty (spin glass) revealed that, at present, co-citation analysis is inconsistent and fragile when used to track national participation in a specialty over time. Specifically, co-citation clusters o…
Links between race/ethnicity and cultural values as mediated by racial/ethnic identity and moderated by gender
Two studies examined whether individualism (orientation toward one's own welfare), collectivism (orientation toward the welfare of one's larger community), and familism (orientation toward the welfare of one's immediate and extended family) are distinct cultural values predicted by race/ ethnicity. The 3 constructs proved to be separate dimensions, although collectivism and familism were positively correlated. In Study 1, persons of color scored …
Where Is Science Going
Do researchers produce scientific and technical knowledge differently than they did ten years ago? What will scientific research look like ten years from now? Addressing such questions means looking at science from a dynamic systems perspective. Two recent books about the social system of science, by Ziman and by Gibbons, Limoges, Nowotny, Schwartzman, Scott, and Trow, accept this challenge and argue that the research enterprise is changing. This…
Providing Public Servants What They Need: Revealing the “Unseen” through Data Visualization
Electronic media has enabled new forms of communication with the potential to provide more effective means of conveying evidence to public servants. This article explores what is known about the use of these new capacities in public affairs to visualize the results of research. The authors first explore the value of visual engagement for increasing comprehension. Then, they examine what is known of studies of the effectiveness of visualization an…
Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: A Reflexive Citation Analysis or Science Disciplines and Disciplining Science
This paper takes the form of a double text which simultaneously investigates the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) through citation analysis, and investigates citation analysis using theoretical ideas from SSK and Foucault. One strand of the text performs an analysis of citation patterns in SSK. This text identifies the figures who have had the most impact through their articles and books, and examines the possible effects of cultural and l…
Equity and Excellence in Research Funding
A Cartography of Philosophy’s Engagement with Society
The New York Times as a Resource for Mode 2
The New York Times ( NYT) receives more citations from academic journals than the American Sociological Review, Research Policy, or the Harvard Law Review. This article explores the reasons why scholars cite the NYT so much. Reasons include studying the newspaper itself or New York City, establishing public interest in a topic by referencing press coverage, introducing specificity, and treating the NYT very much like an academic journal. The phen…
University-industry research links in Japan
Limitations of Co-Citation Analysis as a Tool for Science Policy
Co-citation analysis, a tool initially developed for use in science studies, is entering the science-policy arena where the technical demands placed on data differ. Comparison of co-citation data and a manually generated bibliography of a physics specialty (spin glass) revealed that, at present, co-citation analysis is inconsistent and fragile when used to track national participation in a specialty over time. Specifically, co-citation clusters o…
Instrumentation, Interdisciplinary Knowledge, and Research Performance in Spin Glass and Superfluid Helium Three
Interviews with researchers in two fields of condensed matter physics point to differences in their strategies for success. In one, synthesizing interdisciplinary knowledge takes priority over developing sophisticated instrumentation; in the other, developing instru ments is crucial. As a result, the fields differ in other ways, such as growth rates, presence of dilettantes, and freedom available to plan experiments. The differing priority given …
Limitations of Co-Citation Analysis as a Tool for Science Policy
Co-citation analysis, a tool initially developed for use in science studies, is entering the science-policy arena where the technical demands placed on data differ. Comparison of co-citation data and a manually generated bibliography of a physics specialty (spin glass) revealed that, at present, co-citation analysis is inconsistent and fragile when used to track national participation in a specialty over time. Specifically, co-citation clusters o…
Limitations and More Limitations of Co-Citation Analysis/Bibliometric Modelling: A Reply to Franklin
technique as it is applied to policy-oriented studies. At that time the results of previous policy studies indicated that substantial development of the technique and research into its validity would be necessary before cocitation analysis could become a routine policy analysis tool. Despite these indications the discussion in the literature seemed unbalanced. Because of the extensive resources necessary to produce a study, work relating to polic…
Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: A Reflexive Citation Analysis or Science Disciplines and Disciplining Science
This paper takes the form of a double text which simultaneously investigates the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) through citation analysis, and investigates citation analysis using theoretical ideas from SSK and Foucault. One strand of the text performs an analysis of citation patterns in SSK. This text identifies the figures who have had the most impact through their articles and books, and examines the possible effects of cultural and l…
Instrumentation, Interdisciplinary Knowledge, and Research Performance in Spin Glass and Superfluid Helium Three
Interviews with researchers in two fields of condensed matter physics point to differences in their strategies for success. In one, synthesizing interdisciplinary knowledge takes priority over developing sophisticated instrumentation; in the other, developing instru ments is crucial. As a result, the fields differ in other ways, such as growth rates, presence of dilettantes, and freedom available to plan experiments. The differing priority given …
University-industry research links in Japan
Where Is Science Going
Do researchers produce scientific and technical knowledge differently than they did ten years ago? What will scientific research look like ten years from now? Addressing such questions means looking at science from a dynamic systems perspective. Two recent books about the social system of science, by Ziman and by Gibbons, Limoges, Nowotny, Schwartzman, Scott, and Trow, accept this challenge and argue that the research enterprise is changing. This…
Links between race/ethnicity and cultural values as mediated by racial/ethnic identity and moderated by gender
Two studies examined whether individualism (orientation toward one's own welfare), collectivism (orientation toward the welfare of one's larger community), and familism (orientation toward the welfare of one's immediate and extended family) are distinct cultural values predicted by race/ ethnicity. The 3 constructs proved to be separate dimensions, although collectivism and familism were positively correlated. In Study 1, persons of color scored …
The difficulty of achieving full coverage of international social science literature and the bibliometric consequences
Equity and Excellence in Research Funding
Performance-based university research funding systems
Ista mjerila nisu prikladna za sve: O međusobnoj prilagodbi nacionalnih evaluacijskih sustava i objavljivanja u društvenim znanostima
Posljednjih desetljea vlasti trae veu odgovornost korisnika javnog novca.* U tim okolnostima, sveuilita su se suoila s izmijenjenim reimima financiranja
The New York Times as a Resource for Mode 2
The New York Times ( NYT) receives more citations from academic journals than the American Sociological Review, Research Policy, or the Harvard Law Review. This article explores the reasons why scholars cite the NYT so much. Reasons include studying the newspaper itself or New York City, establishing public interest in a topic by referencing press coverage, introducing specificity, and treating the NYT very much like an academic journal. The phen…
What is an emerging technology?
Bibliometrics: The Leiden Manifesto for research metrics
Providing Public Servants What They Need: Revealing the “Unseen” through Data Visualization
Electronic media has enabled new forms of communication with the potential to provide more effective means of conveying evidence to public servants. This article explores what is known about the use of these new capacities in public affairs to visualize the results of research. The authors first explore the value of visual engagement for increasing comprehension. Then, they examine what is known of studies of the effectiveness of visualization an…
Pathways From Research Into Public Decision Making: Intermediaries as the Third Community
Scholars and practitioners in public administration have often been referred to as the two communities, reflecting their differing incentives, constraints, and foci. In this paper, we examine the knowledge surrounding the use of empirical evidence in public decision making from both the academic and practice of policymaking literatures. After identifying points of convergence, we compare the important factors identified in each literature to four…
A Cartography of Philosophy’s Engagement with Society
Powerful numbers: Exemplary quantitative studies of science that had policy impact
Much scientometric research aims to be relevant to policy, but such research only rarely has a notable policy impact. In this paper, we examine four exemplary cases of policy impact from quantitative studies of science. The cases are analyzed in light of lessons learned about the use of evidence in policy making in health services, which provides very thorough explorations of the problems inherent in policy use of academic research. The analysis …
Seeing impact: Genres referencing journal articles
This paper examines the societal impact of research from the perspective of interconnected genres. Information reaches professionals outside academia through many different types of documents. Those documents often connect with scholarship by referencing academic work, mentioning professors, or publishing articles authored by scholars. Here the pattern of referencing to journal articles is compared across professional genres. Such citation counts…
Steering the future: Expert knowledge and stakeholder voices in autonomous vehicle policy reports
The anticipated arrival of autonomous vehicles has created considerable uncertainty for US states because they govern roads. In response, states activated their policy advisory systems. While policy advising at the national level has been studied, less is known about the sub-national level. Similarly, more is known about the use of scientific knowledge by policymakers than about the full range of knowledge deployed in policy advising. This study …
Blending the two communities: Concurrent evidence use in state-level policy processes
The evidence-based paradigm is one way to ensure public resources are put to effective use. But the uptake of scientific evidence has been limited. We analyse US state reports on autonomous vehicles and the opioid crisis response to explore how evidence is used in state-level processes. We find evidence of three knowledge types -scientific, practice, and political - visible in the reports and extend existing work on knowledge types in use to illu…
Technology readiness levels for policy making: Lessons from the autonomous vehicle hype cycle
Emerging technologies arrive accompanied by promotional hype that can distort policy responses, prompting governments to pursue premature regulatory action or inappropriate interventions. This study proposes that policy advisers use Technology Readiness Levels to cut through technological hype and calibrate policy recommendations to technological maturity. We develop a framework that pairs four stages of technology development (research, developm…
Political science (16 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Sociology (12 works) · scientometrics and bibliometrics research (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Data science (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Public relations (6 works)