are dangerous. It uses total citations over a quarter of a century as the criterion. The paper finds that it is far better …

Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. In the REF, peer-review panels will be provided with information on publications and citations … an intuitive way on the concept of Bayesian updating (where citations gradually reveal information about the initially …

We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the … find that motherhood is associated with low research productivity. Nor do we find a statistically significant unconditional … effect of a first child on research productivity. Conditional difference-in-differences estimates, however, suggest that the …

questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American and European institutions? If so, how … received their degree in the years 2000 to 2005 in Europe or the USA. Research productivity is evaluated alternatively as the … number of publications, results suggest a higher productivity by graduates from European universities than from USA …

productivity in economics (and business) using data from the Web of Science (Knowledge) for a broad set of institutions – both …

greater homophily is associated with publication in lower impact journals and with fewer citations, even holding fixed the … get published in higher impact journals and receive more citations than others. These findings suggest that diversity in … and citations. …

We collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of the … large R&D spending. Our study cannot adjudicate on whether migration improves scientists' productivity, but we find that … movers and stayers have identical h-index citations scores. Immigrants in the UK and US now win Nobel Prizes proportionately …

How should the productivity of research universities be measured? This task is difficult but important. The recent … citations data on 450 genuinely world-leading journal articles over the Research Excellence Framework period 2008-2014. The UK …