U.S. Science in the Era of U.S.-China Tensions

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On Tuesday, May 3, the Strauss Center and Asia Policy Program are pleased to virtually welcome Molly Roberts, associate professor of political science at the University of California San Diego, for a talk: "U.S. Science in the Era of U.S./China Tensions." This is part of our Brumley Speaker Series.

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Roberts will speak about her upcoming joint paper, "The Impact of U.S.-China Tensions on U.S. Science," published in collaboration with Ruixue Jia, Ye Wang and Eddie Yang. The paper studies how recent investigations of foreign influence in research have affected productivity of U.S. scientists working in the life sciences. Using data from PubMed and Dimensions between 2010 and 2020, Roberts and her co-authors compared publications of scientists who collaborated exclusively with Chinese scientists with those working with scientists from other countries outside of China and the United States. The authors identified a decline in both the productivity and quality of publications by U.S. scientists whose work involved collaboration with scientists in China. Roberts will discuss their research and its implications in the era of tensions between the United States and China.

Biography

The research interests of Margaret (Molly) Roberts lie in the intersection of political methodology and the politics of information, with a specific focus on methods of automated content analysis and the politics of censorship in China. She received a Ph.D. from Harvard in government (2014), an M.S. in statistics from Stanford (2009) and B.A. in international relations and dconomics (2009). Currently, she is working on a variety of projects that span censorship, propaganda, topic models and other methods of text analysis. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Political Analysis and Science.

 

Date and Time
May 3, 2022, All Day
Location
Zoom