Reporting to the Director of the Science Systems Center, the Visiting Scientist will join the Science Systems team to strengthen impact measurement across the Center’s portfolio and help shape its future strategic directions in scholarly infrastructure and the scientific record.

The specific responsibilities of the role would be developed jointly by the individual and their manager and may change from time to time, but will include the following key elements:

Portfolio Impact and Strategy (Approx. 80% time)

Review how programs across the Center collect, review, and assess outcomes, and recommend improvements.

Design and pilot practical approaches for tracking the outcomes of awardees and programs over time, including measures of interdisciplinary research.

Develop analyses and tools that program teams can use directly, making effective use of AI and large-scale bibliometric data.

Assess the Center's current investments in strengthening the scientific literature, and map the broader landscape of efforts on scholarly infrastructure and the scientific record, including how AI is changing how research is published, discovered, and verified.

Help shape the Center’s future strategy in this area, including a scoped recommendation on where and how it might invest and which program directions it could pursue.

Science of Science Research (Approx. 20% time)

Pursue an independent research agenda in bibliometrics and the science of science, using publicly available or independently obtained data.

Visiting Scientist, Bibliometrics and Science of Science

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Schmidt Entities

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