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Daniel Scott Smith CV

Assistant Professor of Sociology
Sociology
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Overview


I study pluralism, innovation, and authority in science using computational tools. My empirical settings are both historical and contemporary, ranging from scientific peer review and publications to patents and legislation.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Assistant Professor of Sociology · 2025 - Present Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Recent Publications


The University: Exalted Institution and Ruined Organization

Journal Article Minerva · October 23, 2025 AbstractThe university has risen over nearly a thousand years, growing from a tiny Western outcrop between church and state into a great global behemoth—key to culture, action, and stratification. Even as ... Full text Open Access Cite

How Values and Uncertainty Shape Scientific Advance in Peer Review

Journal Article American Sociological Review · October 1, 2025 Tens of thousands of scientists contribute to peer review as journal editors and reviewers of the millions of manuscripts submitted every year. How do they decide what is quality work? What values do they apply in evaluating which science merits publicatio ... Full text Open Access Cite

"you Cannot Sound Like GPT": Signs of language discrimination and resistance in computer science publishing

Conference Acmf Acct 2025 Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness Accountability and Transparency · June 23, 2025 LLMs have been celebrated for their potential to help multilingual scientists publish their research. Rather than interpret LLMs as a solution, we hypothesize their adoption can be an indicator of existing linguistic exclusion in scientific writing. Using ... Full text Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


Stanford University · 2022 Ph.D.