Brian Uzzi

About

Brian Uzzi is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Leadership at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He also serves as Co-Director of the Northwestern University Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) and The Ryan Institute on Complexity (RIC), and holds positions as a professor in sociology and the McCormick School of Engineering. His work focuses on the link between social networks and human achievement, as well as the role of artificial intelligence in mind and machine partnerships. Uzzi has been recognized with over 30 teaching and research prizes worldwide across sociology, management, ecology, and computer science, and is a Network Science Society Fellow, a recipient of the Euler Award, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His academic career includes faculty positions at Harvard, INSEAD, the University of Chicago, and Berkeley. His research has been widely cited and funded by organizations such as DARPA and NSF, and he also consults for companies and governments globally. Uzzi holds a PhD in sociology from Stony Brook University and has a diverse background that includes work as a carpenter and musician.

Research topics

• Psychology
• Computer Science
• Political Science
• Sociology
• Medicine
• World Wide Web
• Gender studies
• Social psychology
• Medical education
• Management

Selected publications

• Gender-diverse teams produce more novel and higher-impact scientific ideas

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2022 · 334 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Science's changing demographics raise new questions about research team diversity and research outcomes. We study mixed-gender research teams, examining 6.6 million papers published across the medical sciences since 2000 and establishing several core findings. First, the fraction of publications by mixed-gender teams has grown rapidly, yet mixed-gender teams continue to be underrepresented compared to the expectations of a null model. Second, despite their underrepresentation, the publications o…

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• Mentorship and protégé success in STEM fields

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · 118 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Einstein believed that mentors are especially influential in a protégé's intellectual development, yet the link between mentorship and protégé success remains a mystery. We marshaled genealogical data on nearly 40,000 scientists who published 1,167,518 papers in biomedicine, chemistry, math, or physics between 1960 and 2017 to investigate the relationship between mentorship and protégé achievement. In our data, we find groupings of mentors with similar records and reputations who attracted proté…

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• Data, measurement and empirical methods in the science of science

  Nature Human Behaviour · 2023-06-01 · 102 citations

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• A discipline-wide investigation of the replicability of Psychology papers over the past two decades

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2023-01-30 · 80 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  Conjecture about the weak replicability in social sciences has made scholars eager to quantify the scale and scope of replication failure for a discipline. Yet small-scale manual replication methods alone are ill-suited to deal with this big data problem. Here, we conduct a discipline-wide replication census in science. Our sample ( N = 14,126 papers) covers nearly all papers published in the six top-tier Psychology journals over the past 20 y. Using a validated machine learning model that estim…

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• Weak ties, failed tries, and success

  Science · 2022-09-15 · 20 citations

  articleSenior author

  A large-scale study provides a causal test for a cornerstone of social science.

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Frequent coauthors

• Henry Etzkowitz

  38 shared

• Carol Kemelgor

  37 shared

• Benjamin F. Jones

  29 shared

• Ginger Zhe Jin

  Brigham and Women's Hospital

  16 shared

• Serguei Saavedra

  15 shared

• Yang Yang

  Nanjing University of Science and Technology

  14 shared

• Daniel M. Romero

  12 shared

• Yifang Ma

  12 shared

Education

• PhD, Sociology

  Stony Brook University

  1994

Awards & honors

• Network Science Society Fellow
• Euler Award
• Lifetime Professor of the Year
• Kellogg-Racanti Executive MBA Program Euler Award
• Professor of the Year (2013, 2014, 2018-2020)

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