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Matthew : Effect or Fable?
Azoulay, Pierre - 2012
In a market context, a status effect occurs when actors are accorded differential recognition for their efforts depending on their location in a status ordering, holding constant the quality of these efforts. In practice, because it is very difficult to measure quality, this ceteris paribus...
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Prizes and Productivity : How Winning the Fields Medal Affects Scientific Output
Borjas, George J. - 2013
mathematics prize) to that of similarly brilliant contenders. The two groups have similar publication rates until the award year …
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Creating and Connecting US and China Science : Chinese Diaspora and Returnee Researchers
Xie, Qingnan; Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of China-born researchers who work in the US ("diaspora") and a larger group of China-born researchers who gained US-research experience and returned to do their research in China...
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Choose Your Moments : Peer Review and Scientific Risk Taking
Carson, Richard T.; Zivin, Joshua S. Graff; Shrader, Jeffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
conducted with a large sample of active biomedical researchers, we find that--in contrast to funding agencies--scientists … distribution of reviewer scores, they also value the second moment. Further, scientists with the greatest domain expertise on a … scientists' preferences for dissensus would change marginal funding decisions for ten percent of projects worth billions of …
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Credit History : The Changing Nature of Scientific Credit
Gans, Joshua S. - 2013
This paper considers the role of the allocation of scientific credit in determining the organization of science. We examine changes in that organization and the nature of credit allocation in the past half century. Our contribution is a formal model of that organizational choice that considers...
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The Reverse Matthew Effect : Catastrophe and Consequence in Scientific Teams
Jin, Ginger Zhe - 2013
Teamwork pervades modern economies, yet teamwork can make individual roles difficult to ascertain. In the sciences, the canonical "Matthew Effect" suggests that eminent team members garner credit for great works at the expense of less eminent team members. We study this phenomenon in reverse,...
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The Impact of Postdoctoral Fellowships on a Future Independent Career in Federally Funded Biomedical Research
Heggeness, Misty L. - 2018
The Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) program is a major research training program … receiving subsequent NIH research awards from 6.3 to 8.2 percentage points and of achieving an NIH-funded R01 award, an … postdoctoral fellowship awards have the potential to promote retention of scientists in NIH-funded research and in the biomedical …
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Superstar Extinction
Azoulay, Pierre - 2008
We estimate the magnitude of spillovers generated by 112 academic "superstars" who died pre- maturely and unexpectedly, thus providing an exogenous source of variation in the structure of their collaborators' coauthorship networks. Following the death of a superstar, we find that collaborators...
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The Impact of Research Grant Funding on Scientific Productivity
Jacob, Brian - 2007
In this paper, we estimate the impact of receiving an NIH grant on subsequent publications and citations. Our sample consists of all applications (unsuccessful as well as successful) to the NIH from 1980 to 2000 for postdoctoral training grants (F32s) and standard research grants (R01s). Both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465127
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Standing on Academic Shoulders : Measuring Scientific Influence in Universities
Adams, James D. - 2004
Cross-field citation probabilities appear to be symmetric for mutually citing fields. Scientific influence is asymmetric within fields, and occurs primarily from top institutions to those less highly ranked. Still, there is significant reverse influence on higher-ranked schools. We also find...
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