@article {662432,
	title = {Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities},
	journal = {Science},
	volume = {369},
	number = {6507},
	year = {2020},
	pages = {1060-1062},
	abstract = {The field of computational social science (CSS) has exploded in prominence over the past decade, with thousands of papers published using observational data, experimental designs, and large-scale simulations that were once unfeasible or unavailable to researchers. These studies have greatly improved our understanding of important phenomena, ranging from social inequality to the spread of infectious diseases. The institutions supporting CSS in the academy have also grown substantially, as evidenced by the proliferation of conferences, workshops, and summer schools across the globe, across disciplines, and across sources of data. But the field has also fallen short in important ways. Many institutional structures around the field{\textemdash}including research ethics, pedagogy, and data infrastructure{\textemdash}are still nascent. We suggest opportunities to address these issues, especially in improving the alignment between the organization of the 20th-century university and the intellectual requirements of the field.},
	url = {https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6507/1060},
	author = {David M. J. Lazer and Pentland, Alex and Duncan J. Watts and Aral, Sinan and Susan Athey and Contractor, Noshir and Deen Freelon and Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon and Gary King and Helen Margetts and Alondra Nelson and Matthew J. Salganik and Markus Strohmaier and Alessandro Vespignani and Claudia Wagner}
}
