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The Contribution of Chinese Diaspora Researchers to Global Science and China's Catching Up in Scientific Research
Xie, Qingnan; Freeman, Richard B. - 2022
This study examines the contribution of Chinese diaspora researchers – those born in China but working outside the … country – to China's catching up in global science to become a world leader in research publications and citations. Using a … networks that connect scientific discovery in China with the rest of the world. In co-authorship, diaspora researchers are over …
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The Incubator of Human Capital : The NBER and the Rise of the Human Capital Paradigm
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2022
The human capital construct is deep in the bones of economics and finds reference by many classical economists, even if they did not use the phrase. The term “human capital,” seldom mentioned in economics before the 1950s, increased starting in the 1960s and blossomed in the 1990s. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014100574
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Reversed Citations and the Localization of Knowledge Spillovers
Arora, Ashish - 2017
Spillover of knowledge is considered to be an important cause of agglomeration of inventive activity. Many studies argue that knowledge spillovers are localized based on the observation that patents tend to cite nearby patents disproportionately. Specifically, patent citations are interpreted as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965438
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The Life Cycle of Scholarly Articles Across Fields of Research
Galiani, Sebastián - 2017
Aggregate citation behavior plays a key role in scientific knowledge diffusion, as citations document the collective and cumulative nature of knowledge production. Additionally, citations are commonly taken as input for several influential evaluative metrics used to assess researchers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955445
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Co-Authorship in Economic History and Economics : Are We Any Different?
Seltzer, Andrew - 2017
Over the last six decades articles published in leading economic history journals have been less likely to be co-authored than articles published in leading general economics journals. However, in both economic history and general economics journals there have been strong, monotonic increases in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956378
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Above a Swamp : A Theory of High-Quality Scientific Production
Kiri, Bralind - 2015
We elaborate a model of the incentives of scientists to perform activities of control and criticism when these activities, just like the production of novel findings, are costly, and we study the strategic interaction between these incentives. We then use the model to assess policies meant to...
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The Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge Across Time and Space : Evidence from Professional Transitions for the Superstars of Medicine
Azoulay, Pierre - 2015
that article-to-article citations at the superstar's destination location markedly increase after they move. Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038334
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Why Stars Matter
Agrawal, Ajay - 2019
The growing peer effects literature pays particular attention to the role of stars. We decompose the causal effect of hiring a star in terms of the productivity impact on: 1) co-located incumbents and 2) new recruits. Using longitudinal university department-level data we report that hiring a...
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The Slowdown of the Economics Publishing Process
Ellison, Glenn - 2018
Over the last three decades there has been a dramatic increase in the length of time necessary to publish a paper in a top economics journal. This paper documents the slowdown and notes that a substantial part is due to an increasing tendency of journals to require that papers be extensively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908815
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Differences in Citation Patterns Across Journal Tiers : The Case of Economics
Anauati, Maria Victoria - 2018
We study how citation patterns differ between journal tiers in economics. Concretely, we analyze citations patterns of more than 6,000 economics research articles published in top five, second tier, and top field economics journals between 1992 and 1996. In line with previous literature, we find...
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