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in science, but the gender gap is entirely explained by fertility decisions. We find that in science overall, there is no … that women in science will advance up the academic job ladder beyond their early post-doctorate years, while both marriage …
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The recruitment of foreign scientists enhances US science through an expanded workforce but could also cause harm by … US science by crowding out better-connected domestic scientists …
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Even though teams have become the dominant mode of knowledge production, little is known regarding how they divide work among their members. Conceptualizing knowledge production as a process involving a number of functional activities, we first develop a conceptual framework to study the...
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The emergence of novelty, especially of new categories of people and organizations, is undertheorized in the social sciences. Some social worlds are more hospitable to novel introductions or exogenous perturbations than others. Explaining this relative "poisedness" is essential to understanding...
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We investigate how the scientific community's perception of a scientist's prior work changes when one of his articles is retracted. Relative to non-retracted control authors, faculty members who experience a retraction see the citation rate to their earlier, non-retracted articles drop by 10% on...
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country – to China's catching up in global science to become a world leader in research publications and citations. Using a … author. Through those pathways, diaspora research contributed to China’s 2000-2015 catch-up in science and to global science …
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Getting science policy right is a core objective of government that bears on scientific advance, economic growth …, health, and longevity. Yet the process of science is changing. As science advances and knowledge accumulates, ensuing … cycle and (ii) from solo researchers toward teams. This paper summarizes the evidence that science has evolved - and …
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from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering … rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can be explained by the relatively greater exit rate from engineering of …-related constraints and dissatisfaction with working conditions are only secondary factors. My results differ due to my use of non-science …
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To what extent does "false science" impact the rate and direction of scientific change? We examine the impact of more …
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income, university research funding from science philanthropy is $7Billion a year. This major contribution to U.S. scientific … in this paper demonstrates that science philanthropy provides almost 30% of the annual research funds of those in leading … universities. And yet science philanthropy has been largely overshadowed by the massive rise of Federal research funding and, to a …
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