Cassidy R. Sugimoto

About

Cassidy R. Sugimoto is a faculty member associated with the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. Her research focuses on science, technology, and innovation policy, as well as the ethics and philosophy of science and technology. She is involved in various research centers, including the Science and Engineering Organizations, Education, Careers, and Workforce center, and the Policy Process, Leadership, and Pre-Law program. Her academic work includes contributions to understanding the intersection of science and society, with particular attention to policy implications and ethical considerations. She advises Ph.D. students and is actively engaged in research related to science communication, information science, and the societal impacts of technological advancements.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Mathematics
• Mathematical analysis

Selected publications

• Intersectional inequalities in science

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2022 · 301 citations

  The US scientific workforce is primarily composed of White men. Studies have demonstrated the systemic barriers preventing women and other minoritized populations from gaining entry to science; few, however, have taken an intersectional perspective and examined the consequences of these inequalities on scientific knowledge. We provide a large-scale bibliometric analysis of the relationship between intersectional identities, topics, and scientific impact. We find homophily between identities and…

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• Equity for Women in Science: Dismantling Systemic Barriers to Advancement

  Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith · 2024-08-23 · 25 citations

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  EQUITY FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE: Dismantling Systemic Barriers to Advancement

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• Global distribution of research efforts, disease burden, and impact of US public funding withdrawal

  Nature Medicine · 2025-08-27 · 14 citations

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  Evaluating whether research aligns with the global burden of disease is essential for equitable and effective scientific progress and improvement of human health. Without systematic evaluation of this alignment, science cannot respond to shifting health needs. Here we analyzed the distribution between research and disease, linking 8.6 million disease-specific publications to two decades of global disease burden data using a triangulated large language model approach. We find that since 1999, res…

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• The Howard‐Harvard effect: Institutional reproduction of intersectional inequalities

  Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology · 2024-05-31 · 12 citations

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  Abstract The production of research and faculty in the US higher education system is concentrated within a few institutions. Concentration of research and resources affects minoritized scholars and the topics with which they are disproportionately associated. This paper examines topical alignment between institutions and authors of varying intersectional identities, and the relationship between research topics and identities with institutional prestige and scientific impact. Our results show sta…

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• Understanding super‐partnerships in scientific collaboration: Evidence from the field of economics

  Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology · 2024-02-14 · 11 citations

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  Abstract Super‐partnerships exist between scholars connected within densely‐knit collaboration networks. Understanding how such relationships affect scholars' careers is of great importance. In this paper, focusing on the longitudinal aspects of scientific collaboration, we analyze collaboration profiles from the egocentric perspective and use analytic extreme value thresholds to identify super‐partners. A total of 5722 pairs of super‐partners are found in the field of economics. The several int…

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Recent grants

• Cascades, islands, or streams? Time, topic, and scholarly activities in humanities and social science research

  NSF · $127k · 2012–2014

• Incubators of Knowledge: Predicting protege productivity and impact in the social sciences

  NSF · $240k · 2012–2014

Frequent coauthors

• Vincent Larivière

  240 shared

• Chaoqun Ni

  Fudan University

  40 shared

• Cameron Neylon

  Curtin University

  30 shared

• Rodrigo Costas

  30 shared

• Dakota Murray

  30 shared

• Zaida Chinchilla‐Rodríguez

  Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

  30 shared

• Nicolás Robinson‐García

  29 shared

• Chun‐Kai Huang

  Curtin University

  29 shared

Labs

• Cassidy R. Sugimoto LabPI

Education

• Ph.D., Public Policy

  Georgia Institute of Technology

  2008

• M.S., Information Science

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  2001

• B.A., Information and Computer Science

  University of California, Berkeley

  1998

Awards & honors

• Indiana University Trustees Teaching award (2014)
• National service award from the Association for Information…
• Bicentennial Award for service from Indiana University (2020…
• Committee on Institutional Cooperation Academic Leadership P…
• James M. Cretsos Leadership Award, ASIS&T (November 2009)

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