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Andrew C. Herman

Andrew C. Herman

Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Copenhagen

I study how new ideas come about, what we can do to help them along, and how they affect our lives once they arrive. Most of my attention goes to institutions and how they structure the way scientists at universities and in corporate labs search for the next big thing. My main focus at the moment is on the interplay between science and technology on the one hand, and economic development and international inequalities on the other.


Publications I maintain a full list of my publications through ORCID. You can also find the same information at Google Scholar, though I put less effort into maitaining my profile there. Those links can be found in the sidebar at the top of the page. My CV contains the same information, if you prefer the comfort of a PDF (Download CV).

But since you came all this way, here are some recent papers of mine that I think are pretty neat.

Selected Research

Herman, A.C., Andersen, J.P. & Nielsen, M.W. "Editorial gatekeeping up and down the journal hierarchy".

Herman, A.C.. "What is powerful about the state's discursive power? Road navigation in the United States during the technology transition to automobiles". (Under Review). https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/5fmzn

Herman, A.C., Andersen, J.P. & Nielsen, M.W. "Brain drain outweighs brain circulation between the Global North and South". (Under Review). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01351-5

Gomez, C.J., Herman, A.C. & Parigi, P. "Leading countries in global science increasingly receive more citations than other countries doing similar research". Nature Human Behavior, 6, 919–929 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01351-5

Software

If you are looking for my R package, biblio.migration, you can find the GitHub repository here. The package implements a new method for identifying mobility from the affiliation data on authors' papers over time. It was designed with scientific papers and patents in mind, but ought to work for any data with the same structure. You can see my paper "Reconstructing bibliometric methods for studying mobility" for more information on the method.

About Me Assistant Professor University of Copenhagen, Department of Sociology

Most days you can either find me grinding away on a new idea of my own, or wandering around Copenhagen in search of a good nook where I can read and listen to music.

Just for fun, a shoutout to my fellow social scientist Andrew Herman, who also does some cool work on eerily similar topics (see for instance, their fun piece on BlackBerry Capitalism). I am entirely serious when I say this is not me. But it's first come, first served, when it comes to names in academia. So you'll find my papers with the extra 'C.' in the middle.

Education

Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles

M.A. University of California, Los Angeles

M.A. University of Chicago

B.A. University of British Columbia

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My Research Interests

Innovation
Science
STS
Political Economy
Economic Sociology
Political Sociology
Big Data
Computational Methodologies
Archival Research
Small-N Comparative Research

Contact You are welcome to email me at andrew.herman@soc.ku.dk.

If for some reason you need to reach me by mail, things will get to me if you send them to:

Andrew Herman
Department of Sociology
University of Copenhagen
Øster Farimagsgade 5, Bld. 16, 1.52
DK-1014 Copenhagen K Denmark