Rate My Professor Cassidy Sugimoto

Cassidy R. Sugimoto is the Tom and Marie Patton Professor, School Chair, and Professor in the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She earned her Ph.D. in Information and Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2010, an M.S. in Library Science from the same institution in 2007, and a B.Mus. in Music Performance in 2005. Prior to her appointment at Georgia Tech in 2021, Sugimoto held a professorship in Informatics in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington from 2010 to 2021. During this period, she also served as Program Director for the Science of Science and Innovation Policy program at the National Science Foundation from 2018 to 2020. Her career includes visiting professorships at Leiden University and the University of Wolverhampton.

Sugimoto's research examines the formal and informal ways in which knowledge is produced, disseminated, consumed, and supported, with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Her academic interests span science policy, education policy, ethics and philosophy of science and technology, science and engineering organizations, science and technology studies, and science, technology, and innovation policy. She has authored key books such as Equity for Women in Science (Harvard University Press, 2023), Measuring Research: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2018), Open Knowledge Institutions: Reinventing Universities (2021), and edited volumes including Beyond Bibliometrics: Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact (MIT Press, 2014). Influential articles include "Intersectional inequalities in science" (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022), "The latent structure of global scientific development" (Nature Human Behaviour, 2022), "Bias in peer review" (2013, cited over 1,400 times), "Do altmetrics work? Twitter and ten other social web services" (2013, cited over 1,300 times), and "Factors affecting sex-related reporting in medical research" (The Lancet, 2019). With over 21,000 citations on Google Scholar, her work has profoundly influenced scientometrics, scholarly communication, and science policy. Major awards include the Bicentennial Award for service from Indiana University (2020), Committee on Institutional Cooperation Academic Leadership Program Fellowship (2014-2015), Indiana University Trustees Excellence in Teaching Award (2014), James M. Cretsos Leadership Award from ASIS&T (2009), and ALISE/Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Award (2011). Sugimoto has contributed extensively through committee leadership, editorial roles, and service in academic governance at Indiana University and beyond.