Publications.

Research on how science works,
and how it can work better.

72 publications

2026Journal article

Dissecting the gender divide: authorship and acknowledgment in scientific publications

Keigo Kusumegi; Daniel E. Acuna; Yukie Sano

Scientometrics

2026Preprint / working paper

SciIntBench: Measuring LLM Compliance with Research Integrity Norms Under Adversarial Framing

Almene De Meran Meguimtsop; Maria Leonor Pacheco; Daniel E. Acuna

arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.29468

2026Preprint / working paper

REM-CTX: Automated Peer Review via Reinforcement Learning with Auxiliary Context

Pawin Taechoyotin; Daniel E. Acuna

arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.00248

2026Journal article

Widespread reference missingness disparities in open scholarly metadata

Huaxia Zhou; Lizhen Liang; Daniel E. Acuna

Quantitative Science Studies, 7, 53–65

2026Preprint / working paper

Government Funding and the Direction of Academic Energy Research

David Popp; Myriam Gregoire-Zawilski; Lizhen Liang; Daniel E. Acuna

NBER Working Paper No. 34856

2026Journal article

Beyond a number game: Flat team structures improve inclusion and performance in diverse scientific teams

Huimin Xu; Shujing Sun; Meijun Liu; Chenwei Zhang; Yi Bu; Yi Zhang; Daniel E. Acuna; Eric Meyer; Ying Ding

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 77(9), 1119–1135

2026Preprint / working paper

Assessments of Credibility in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

Anna Lou Abatayo; Titipat Achakulvisut; Daniel Acuna; et al.

All 83 authors

Anna Lou Abatayo; Titipat Achakulvisut; Daniel Acuna; Balazs Aczel; Laxmaan Balaji; Anita Bandrowski; Daniel M Benjamin; Michael M Bishop; Gary L Brase; Andrew W Brown; Martin Bush; James Caverlee; Tatiana Chakravorti; Yiling Chen; Macie Daley; Morteza Dehghani; Mirka Dirzo; Anna Dreber; Peter Eckmann; Timothy M Errington; Qizhang Feng; Fiona Fidler; Samuel Field; Nicholas W Fox; Robert D Fraleigh; Aaron Frank; Hannah Fraser; James Gentile; C L Giles; Brandon Goldfedder; Phil Gooch; Michael Gordon; Elliot Gould; Christopher Griffin; Timothy Gulden; Noah Haber; Krystal Hahn; Felix Holzmeister; Xia B Hu; Yuzhong Huang; Magnus Johannesson; Brendan Kennedy; Melissa Kline Struhl; Anthony Kwasnica; Dong-Ho Lee; Kristina Lerman; Yang Liu; Allegra Pearce; Isabella Mandema; Alexandru Marcoci; Brinna Mawhinney; Souad McIntosh; Michael Mclaughlin; Arjun Menon; Olivia Miske; Fallon Mody; Fred Morstatter; Nishanth S Nakshatri; Brian A Nosek; Michele B Nuijten; David Pennock; Thomas Pfeiffer; Darien Pipkin; Jay Pujara; Sarah Rajtmajer; Martijn Roelandse; Adam Russell; Priya Silverstein; Vaibhav Singh; Courtney K Soderberg; Anna M Squicciarini; Theresa Stankov; Jordan W Suchow; Barnabas Szaszi; Louisa Tran; Peter A Vesk; Tim Vines; Colby J Vorland; Juntao Wang; Zhuoer Wang; David P Wilkinson; Bonnie Wintle; Jian Wu

MetaArXiv

2025Journal article

Estimating the predictability of questionable open-access journals

Han Zhuang; Lizhen Liang; Daniel E. Acuna

Science Advances, 11(35), eadt2792

2025Journal article

Predicting the longevity of resources shared in scientific publications

Daniel E. Acuna; Jian Jian; Tong Zeng; Lizhen Liang; Han Zhuang

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12(1), 698

2025Preprint / working paper

REMOR: Automated Peer Review Generation with LLM Reasoning and Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning

Pawin Taechoyotin; Daniel E. Acuna

arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.11718

2025Journal article

Paraphrase Identification with Deep Learning: A Review of Datasets and Methods

Chao Zhou; Cheng Qiu; Lizhen Liang; Daniel E. Acuna

IEEE Access, 13, 65797–65822

2024Journal article

RecSOI: recommending research directions using statements of ignorance

Adrien Bibal; Nourah M. Salem; Rémi Cardon; Elizabeth K. White; Daniel E. Acuna; Robin Burke; Lawrence E. Hunter

Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 15(1), 2

2024Journal article

The impact of heterogeneous shared leadership in scientific teams

Huimin Xu; Meijun Liu; Yi Bu; Shujing Sun; Yi Zhang; Chenwei Zhang; Daniel E. Acuna; Steven Gray; Eric Meyer; Ying Ding

Information Processing & Management, 61(1), 103542

2024Preprint / working paper

The complementary contributions of academia and industry to AI research

Lizhen Liang; Han Zhuang; James Zou; Daniel E. Acuna

arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.10268

2024Journal article

Science Needs You: Mobilizing for Diversity in Award Recognition

Elizabeth Novoa-Monsalve; David Patterson; Stephanie Ludi; Daniel E Acuna

Communications of the ACM, 67(8), 18–21

2024Conference / workshop

MISTI: Metadata-Informed Scientific Text and Image Representation through Contrastive Learning

Pawin Taechoyotin; Daniel Acuna

Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP 2024), 155–164

2024Conference / workshop

MAMORX: Multi-agent Multi-modal Scientific Review Generation with External Knowledge

Pawin Taechoyotin; Guanchao Wang; Tong Zeng; Bradley Sides; Daniel E. Acuna

NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Foundation Models for Science: Progress, Opportunities, and Challenges

2024Journal article

Incorporating costs and benefits to the evaluation of uncertain research results: applications to cancer research funding

Han Zhuang; Daniel E. Acuna

Quantitative Science Studies, 5(4), 1047–1069

2024Conference / workshop

Comparative Explanations for Recommendation: Research Directions

Meysam Varasteh; Elizabeth McKinnie; Amanda Aird; Daniel E. Acuna; Robin Burke

Proceedings of the 11th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS 2024), co-located with RecSys 2024

2024Conference / workshop

A First Step towards Measuring Interdisciplinary Engagement in Scientific Publications: A Case Study on NLP+ CSS Research

Alexandria Leto; Shamik Roy; Alexander Hoyle; Daniel Acuna; María Leonor Pacheco

Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science (NLP+ CSS 2024), 144–158

2023Journal article

A computational analysis of accessibility, readability, and explainability of figures in open access publications

Han Zhuang; Tzu-Yang Huang; Daniel E Acuna

EPJ Data Science, 12(1), 5

2022Journal article

Author-suggested reviewers rate manuscripts much more favorably: A cross-sectional analysis of the neuroscience section of PLOS ONE

D E Acuna; M Teplitskiy; J. Evans; K. Kording

PLOS ONE

2022Journal article

A dataset of mentorship in bioscience with semantic and demographic estimations

Q. Ke; L. Liang; Y. Ding; S V David; D E Acuna

Scientific Data, 9(467)

2022Journal article

Team formation and team impact: The balance between team freshness and repeat collaboration

Meijun Liu; Ajay Jaiswal; Yi Bu; Chao Min; Sijie Yang; Zhibo Liu; Daniel Acuña; Ying Ding

Journal of Informetrics, 16(4), 101337

2022Conference / workshop

Predicting the usage of scientific datasets based on article, author, institution, and journal bibliometrics

Daniel E. Acuna; Zijun Yi; Lizhen Liang; Han Zhuang

International Conference on Information, 42–52

2022Workshop announcement

International Workshop on Data-driven Science of Science

Yi Bu; Meijun Liu; Yujia Zhai; Ying Ding; Feng Xia; Daniel E. Acuña; Yi Zhang

Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 4856–4857

2021Journal article

Graphical integrity issues in open access publications: detection and patterns of proportional ink violations

Han Zhuang; Tzu-Yang Huang; Daniel Ernesto Acuna

PloS Computational Biology

2021Workshop description

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Science of Science and Computational Discovery: Principles, Applications, and Future Opportunities

Daniel E. Acuna; Tong Zeng; Han Zhuang; Lizhen Liang

iConference 2021 workshop

2021Preprint / working paper

EILEEN: A recommendation system for scientific publications and grants

Daniel E. Acuna; Kartik Nagre; Priya Matnani

arXiv:2110.09663

2021Conference / workshop

Are AI Ethics Conferences Different and More Diverse Compared to Traditional Computer Science Conferences?

Daniel E. Acuna; Lizhen Liang

Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 307–315

2020Conference / workshop

Large-scale author name disambiguation using approximate network structures

Tong Zeng; Daniel E Acuna

International Conference on Computational Social Science

2020Journal article

Pyglmnet: Python implementation of elastic-net regularized generalized linear models

Mainak Jas; Titipat Achakulvisut; Aid Idrizović; et al.

All 22 authors

Mainak Jas; Titipat Achakulvisut; Aid Idrizović; Daniel Acuna; Matthew Antalek; Vinicius Marques; Tommy Odland; Ravi Garg; Mayank Agrawal; Yu Umegaki; Peter Foley; Hugo Fernandes; Drew Harris; Beibin Li; Olivier Pieters; Scott Otterson; Giovanni De Toni; Chris Rodgers; Eva Dyer; Matti Hamalainen; Konrad Kording; Pavan Ramkumar

Journal of Open Source Software, 5(47), 1959

2020Preprint / working paper

Estimating a Null Model of Scientific Image Reuse to Support Research Integrity Investigations

Daniel E. Acuna; Ziyue Xiang

arXiv:2003.00878

2020Journal article

Pubmed Parser: A Python Parser for PubMed Open-Access XML Subset and MEDLINE XML Dataset

Titipat Achakulvisut; Daniel E Acuna; Konrad Kording

Journal of Open Source Software, 5(46), 1979

2020Preprint / working paper

Scientific Image Tampering Detection Based On Noise Inconsistencies: A Method And Datasets

Ziyue Xiang; Daniel E. Acuna

arXiv:2001.07799

2020Web article

neuromatch: Algorithms to match scientists

Titipat Achakulvisut; Tulakan Ruangrong; Daniel Ernesto Acuna; Brad Wyble; Dan Goodman; Konrad Kording

eLife Labs

2020Preprint / working paper

Some considerations for studying gender, mentorship, and scientific impact: commentary on AlShebli, Makovi, and Rahwan (2020)

Daniel Ernesto Acuna

OSF Preprints

2020Journal article

Modeling citation worthiness by using attention-based bidirectional long short-term memory networks and interpretable models

Tong Zeng; Daniel E Acuna

Scientometrics, 124(1), 399–428

2020Conference / workshop

GotFunding: A grant recommendation system based on scientific articles

Tong Zeng; Daniel E Acuna

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 57(1), e323

2020Book chapter

Finding datasets in publications: the Syracuse University approach

Tong Zeng; Daniel E Acuna

Rich Search and Discovery for Research Datasets, 158–165

2020Conference / workshop

Don’t judge a journal by its cover?: Appearance of a Journal’s website as predictor of blacklisted Open-Access status

Lizhen Liang; Daniel E Acuna

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 57(1), e306

2020Journal article

Assigning credit to scientific datasets using article citation networks

Tong Zeng; Longfeng Wu; Sarah Bratt; Daniel E Acuna

Journal of Informetrics, 14(2), 101013

2020Conference / workshop

Artificial mental phenomena: Psychophysics as a framework to detect perception biases in AI models

Lizhen Liang; Daniel E Acuna

Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 403–412

2020Conference / workshop

Are author, affiliation, and citation networks predictive of a journal getting blacklisted?

Lizhen Liang; Daniel E Acuna

International Conference on Computational Social Science

2020Conference / workshop

An Automatic Misleading Graph Detection Tool

Han Zhuang; Daniel E Acuna

International Conference on Computational Social Science

2019Preprint / working paper

The effect of novelty on the future impact of scientific grants

Han Zhuang; Daniel E. Acuna

arXiv:1911.02712

2019Journal article

Limiting motor skill knowledge via incidental training protects against choking under pressure

Taraz G Lee; Daniel E Acuna; Konrad P Kording; Scott T Grafton

Psychonomic bulletin & review, 26(1), 279–290

2019Conference presentation

Helping research misconduct investigations: methods for statistical certainty reporting of inappropriate figure reuse

Daniel E. Acuna

World Conference on Research Integrity, Hong Kong

2019Conference / workshop

Dead science: Most resources linked in biomedical articles disappear in eight years

Tong Zeng; Alain Shema; Daniel E Acuna

International Conference on Information, 170–176

2019Preprint / working paper

Claim Extraction in Biomedical Publications using Deep Discourse Model and Transfer Learning

Titipat Achakulvisut; Chandra Bhagavatula; Daniel Acuna; Konrad Kording

arXiv:1907.00962

2018Journal article

Intellectual synthesis in mentorship determines success in academic careers

Jean F Liénard; Titipat Achakulvisut; Daniel E Acuna; Stephen V David

Nature communications, 9(1), 1–13

2018Journal article

The sociology of scientific validity: How professional networks shape judgement in peer review

Misha Teplitskiy; Daniel Acuna; Aı̈da Elamrani-Raoult; Konrad Körding; James Evans

Research Policy, 47(9), 1825–1841

2018Preprint / working paper

Bioscience-scale automated detection of figure element reuse

Daniel E Acuna; Paul S Brookes; Konrad P Kording

BioRxiv, 269415

2017Conference / workshop

Show Me Your App Usage and I Will Tell Who Your Close Friends Are: Predicting User’s Context from Simple Cellphone Activity

Alain Shema; Daniel E Acuna

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2929–2935

2016Journal article

Science Concierge: A fast content-based recommendation system for scientific publications

Titipat Achakulvisut; Daniel E Acuna; Tulakan Ruangrong; Konrad Kording

PloS ONE, 11(7), e0158423

2016Journal article

Chunking as the result of an efficiency computation trade-off

Pavan Ramkumar; Daniel E Acuna; Max Berniker; Scott T Grafton; Robert S Turner; Konrad P Kording

Nature communications, 7(1), 1–11

2016Journal article

Adaptive neuron-to-EMG decoder training for FES neuroprostheses

Christian Ethier; Daniel Acuna; Sara A Solla; Lee E Miller

Journal of neural engineering, 13(4), 046009

2015Journal article

Using psychophysics to ask if the brain samples or maximizes

Daniel E Acuna; Max Berniker; Hugo L Fernandes; Konrad P Kording

Journal of vision, 15(3), 7–7

2015Journal article

High-Reproducibility and High-Accuracy Method for Automated Topic Classification

Andrea Lancichinetti; M. Irmak Sirer; Jane X. Wang; Daniel Acuna; Konrad Körding; Luís A. Nunes Amaral

Physical Review X, 5(1), 011007

2014Journal article

Multifaceted aspects of chunking enable robust algorithms

Daniel E Acuna; Nicholas F Wymbs; Chelsea A Reynolds; Nathalie Picard; Robert S Turner; Peter L Strick; Scott T Grafton; Konrad P Kording

Journal of neurophysiology, 112(8), 1849–1856

2013Journal article

The future h-index is an excellent way to predict scientistsˈ future impact

Daniel E Acuna; Orion Penner; Colin G Orton

Medical Physics, 40(11)

2012Journal article

Predicting scientific success

Daniel E Acuna; Stefano Allesina; Konrad P Kording

Nature, 489(7415), 201–202

2012Journal article

Toward perceiving robots as humans: Three handshake models face the turing-like handshake test

Guy Avraham; Ilana Nisky; Hugo L Fernandes; Daniel E Acuna; Konrad P Kording; Gerald E Loeb; Amir Karniel

IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 5(3), 196–207

2010Journal article

Structure learning in human sequential decision-making

Daniel E Acuna; Paul Schrater

PLoS computational biology, 6(12), e1001003

2010Conference abstract

The rational control of aspiration in learning

Daniel Acuna; C. Shawn Green; Paul Schrater

Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2010

2010Journal article

People efficiently explore the solution space of the computationally intractable traveling salesman problem to find near-optimal tours

Daniel E Acuna; Víctor Parada

PloS ONE, 5(7), e11685

2010Workshop presentation

Decision-making in unbounded environments using nonparametric Bayesian Reinforcement Learning

Daniel E. Acuna; C. Shawn Green; Paul Schrater

NIPS 2010 Workshop on Bounded-rational analyses of human cognition: Bayesian models, approximate inference, and the brain

2009Conference abstract

Structure learning in sequential decision making

Paul Schrater; Daniel Acuna

Journal of Vision: Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting Abstracts, 9(8), 829

2009Conference / workshop

Improving bayesian reinforcement learning using transition abstraction

Daniel E Acuna; Paul Schrater

Proceedings of the ICML/UAI/COLT Workshop on Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning, 1

2008Conference / workshop

Structure learning in human sequential decision-making

Daniel E Acuna; Paul Schrater

Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 1–8

2008Conference / workshop

Bayesian modeling of human sequential decision-making on the multi-armed bandit problem

Daniel Ernesto Acuna; Paul Schrater

Proceedings of the 30th annual conference of the cognitive science society, 100, 200–300