Cassidy Sugimoto

Cassidy R. Sugimoto is an American information scientist who is the Professor and Tom and Marie Patton School Chair in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She studies the ways knowledge is processed and disseminated. She is the author of the 2016 MIT Press book Big Data is Not a Monolith.

Early life and education[]

Sugimoto was an undergraduate student at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied music performance. She remained at the University for graduate studies, but moved to the department of Library Science. Her doctoral research considered the scholarly development of information and library science.^[1] She evaluated mentoring, collaboration and interdisciplinary training in doctoral education.^[1]

Research and career[]

After earning her doctorate, Sugimoto joined the faculty at the Indiana University Bloomington.^[2][3] From 2018 to 2020 Sugimoto worked as program director for the National Science Foundation program on Science of Science and Innovation Policy.^[4] Sugimoto was appointed Professor of Informatics at Indiana University in 2020. She moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2021.^[2] Her research considers the formal and informal production, sharing and consumption of knowledge. She was announced as a member of the Angewandte Chemie International Advisory board.^[5]

Awards and honors[]

• 2002 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Concerto Competition Winner^[2]
• 2009 Association for Information Science and Technology James M. Cretsos Leadership Award^[6]
• 2014 Indiana University Trustees Excellence in Teaching Award
• 2014 Committee on Institutional Cooperation Academic Leadership Program Fellow^[7]
• 2020 Indiana University Bicentennial Award for service^[8]

Selected publications[]

• Mike Thelwall; Stefanie Haustein; Vincent Larivière; Cassidy Sugimoto (2013). "Do altmetrics work? Twitter and ten other social web services". PLOS One. 8 (5): e64841. doi:10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0064841. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3665624. PMID 23724101. Wikidata Q21133507.
• Vincent Larivière; Chaoqun Ni; Yves Gingras; Blaise Cronin; Cassidy R. Sugimoto (1 December 2013). "Bibliometrics: global gender disparities in science". Nature. 504 (7479): 211–213. doi:10.1038/504211A. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 24350369. Wikidata Q46158114.
• Carole J. Lee; Cassidy R. Sugimoto; Guo Zhang; Blaise Cronin (10 December 2012). "Bias in peer review". Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 64 (1): 2–17. doi:10.1002/ASI.22784. ISSN 1532-2882. Wikidata Q55970050.

Books[]

• Beyond Bibliometrics: harnessing multidimensional indicators of scholarly impact, MIT Press"The Ethics of Evaluative Bibliometrics", Beyond Bibliometrics, The MIT Press, 2014, doi:10.7551/mitpress/9445.003.0008, ISBN 978-0-262-32328-4, retrieved 2021-07-21
• Big Data is Not a Monolith, MIT Press"Big Data in Medicine: Potential, Reality, and Implications", Big Data Is Not a Monolith, The MIT Press, 2016, doi:10.7551/mitpress/10309.003.0021, ISBN 978-0-262-33576-8, retrieved 2021-07-21
• Measuring research : what everyone needs to know, Oxford University PressSugimoto, Cassidy R. (2018). Measuring research : what everyone needs to know. Vincent Larivière. New York, NY. ISBN 978-0-19-756940-5. OCLC 1001968340.

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