Cassidy R. Sugimoto
School Chair, Tom and Marie Patton Chair, and Professor
- Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy
Overview
Dr. Cassidy R. Sugimoto is Tom and Marie Patton Professor and School Chair in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research examines the formal and informal ways in which knowledge is produced, disseminated, consumed, and supported, with an emphasis on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Sugimoto was a professor of Informatics in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington from 2010-2021 and served as the Program Director for the Science of Science and Innovation Policy program at the National Science Foundation from 2018-2020. She has received the Indiana University Trustees Teaching award (2014), a national service award from the Association for Information Science and Technology (2009), and a Bicentennial Award for service from Indiana University (2020). She holds a bachelor’s in Music Performance, a master’s in Library Science, and a doctoral degree in Information and Library Science all from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Ph.D., Information and Library Science. School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- M.S., Library Science. School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- B.Mus., Music Performance. Music Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Distinctions:
- Bicentennial Award for service from Indiana University (2020)
- Committee on Institutional Cooperation Academic Leadership Program Fellow (2014-2015)
- Indiana University Trustees Excellence in Teaching Award (April 2014)
- James M. Cretsos Leadership Award, ASIS&T (November 2009)
- UNC-Chapel Hill Concerto Competition Winner (November 2002)
Interests
- Education Policy
- Ethics and Philosophy of Science and Technology
- History of Technology/Engineering and Society
- S&E Organizations, Education, Careers and Workforce
- Science and Technology Studies
- Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy
- U.S. Society and Politics/Policy Perspectives
- Gender
- Education Policy
- Evaluation
- Inequality, Inequity, and Social Justice
- Policy Analysis
- Science and Engineering Workforces
- Science and Technology
Courses
- PUBP-4010: Policy Task Force I
- PUBP-4020: Policy Task Force II
- PUBP-6001: Intro to Public Policy
Publications
Recent Publications
Books
- Equity for Women in Science
Date: 2023
Journal Articles
- Intersectional inequalities in science
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Date: 2022
- The latent structure of global scientific development
In: Nature Human Behavior
Date: 2022
- The relationship between parenting engagement and academic performance
In: Scientific Reports [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2022
- Investigating the division of scientific labor using the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT)
In: Quantitative Science Studies [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2021
All Publications
Books
- Equity for Women in Science
Date: 2023
- Open Knowledge Institutions Reinventing Universities
Date: 2021
- Measuring Research: What everyone needs to know
Date: 2018
- Provides a unique overview of how to understand various indicators of research impact and value
- Provides an accessible introduction to scientometrics
- Valuable tool for researchers, as well as undergraduate and graduate students, across disciplines
- Big data is not a monolith
Date: 2016
Perspectives on the varied challenges posed by big data for health, science, law, commerce, and politics.
- Theories of informetrics and scholarly communication
Date: 2016
Scientometrics have become an essential element in the practice and evaluation of science and research, including both the evaluation of individuals and national assessment exercises. Yet, researchers and practitioners in this field have lacked clear theories to guide their work. As early as 1981, then doctoral student Blaise Cronin published "The need for a theory of citing" —a call to arms for the fledgling scientometric community to produce foundational theories upon which the work of the field could be based. More than three decades later, the time has come to reach out the field again and ask how they have responded to this call.
This book compiles the foundational theories that guide informetrics and scholarly communication research. It is a much needed compilation by leading scholars in the field that gathers together the theories that guide our understanding of authorship, citing, and impact. - Scholarly Metrics Under the Microscope: From Citation Analysis to Academic Auditing
Date: 2015
- Beyond Bibliometrics Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact
Date: 2014
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact.
Journal Articles
- Intersectional inequalities in science
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Date: 2022
- The latent structure of global scientific development
In: Nature Human Behavior
Date: 2022
- The relationship between parenting engagement and academic performance
In: Scientific Reports [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2022
- Investigating the division of scientific labor using the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT)
In: Quantitative Science Studies [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2021
- Exploring the personal and professional factors associated with student evaluations of tenure-track faculty
In: PLOS One [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2020
- Misconduct and Misbehavior Related to Authorship Disagreements in Collaborative Science
In: Science and Engineering Ethics [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2020
- Researchers' Perceptions of Ethical Authorship Distribution in Collaborative Research Teams
In: Science and Engineering Ethics [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2020
- The role of Web of Science publications in China’s tenure system
In: Scientometrics [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2020
- Factors affecting sex-related reporting in medical research: a cross-disciplinary bibliometric analysis
In: The Lancet [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2019
- The citation advantage of foreign language references for Chinese social science papers
In: Scientometrics [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2019
Chapters
- The Journal Impact Factor: a brief history, critique, and discussion of adverse effects
In: Handbook of Science and Technology Indicators
Date: 2019
- Harnessing multidimensional indicators of scholarly impact
In: Academic genealogy
Date: 2014