Sarah Bratt is a 5th year PhD candidate at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies. She holds a B.S. in Philosophy at Ithaca College, and M.S. in Library and Information Science with a Data Science certificate from Syracuse University. Her research focuses on scientific communication, data science, and new technologies for organizing scientific communities. Current projects include (1) big metadata analytics of NCBI's GenBank scientific collaboration network metadata to understand the practices and processes involved in distributed science work; and (2) calculating research dataset use and circulation to understand how different types of scientific interactions impact research productivity and knowledge diffusion