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This seems to be heavily focused on studying social phenomena and less so about things like engineering papers or Physics etc. The author himself specializes in social-oriented research. I think it would be better to look at how successful non-social studies are vs humanities. It is debated on whether or not Sociology is even a science at all.

For what it is worth, I happen to know that big tech companies follow research at big name CS universities with a bit of interest. At times, even borrowing the research itself in their products. At one point, a professor I worked under was quoted in Android documentation.