Jevin West
Associate Professor & Director, Information School
University of Washington
Tel: 206-543-2646 Box: 352840
website
CSDE Research Areas:
- Demographic Measurements and Methods
In the News:
- West Quoted in Article About AI-Driven Search Engines (11/15/2024)
- West Quoted in NPR on Recent MisInfo Day (03/28/2024)
- Spiro, West, and Co-authors Publish on Science Communication During the COVID-19 Pandemic (10/12/2023)
- West and Colleagues Publish New Research on the Representation of Women Authors in Philosophy Journals (04/15/2023)
- New Research from Kennedy, Spiro, West & Colleagues Present New Framework for Evaluating Interventions in Online Misinformation (07/04/2022)
- CSDE Welcomes Five Faculty Affiliates! (11/12/2021)
Jevin West is Associate Professor and Director at the Information School. He builds models, algorithms and interactive visualizations for understanding the flow of information in large knowledge networks. Two particular areas of interest are scholarly communication and intellectual property. Jevin co-founded Eigenfactor.org (www.eigenfactor.org) -- a free website and research platform for mapping science and identifying influential papers, journals and scholars. He is also the Co-Director of DataLab, the nexus for research on Data Science and Analytics at the UW iSchool. He also serves as Affiliate Faculty with the Center for Statistics and Social Sciences and as Adjunct Faculty with Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington.