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Statistical Uncertainty in the Ranking of Journals and Universities

Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Shaikh, Azeem M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

these confidence sets to draw inferences about uncertainty in the ranking of economics journals and universities by impact …Economists are obsessed with rankings of institutions, journals, or scholars according to the value of some feature of … for the rank of, say, a particular journal as well as simultaneous confidence sets for the ranks of all journals. We apply …

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Publishing and Promotion in Economics : The Tyranny of the Top Five

Heckman, James J. - 2018

This paper examines the relationship between placement of publications in Top Five (T5) journals and receipt of tenure …

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Differences in citation patterns across journal tiers : The case of economics

Anauati, María Victoria - 2018

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 that top five journals' articles generally receive more citations …

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What do Editors Maximize? Evidence from Four Leading Economics Journals

Card, David - 2017

We study editorial decision-making using anonymized submission data for four leading economics journals: the Journal of …

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Neophilia Ranking of Scientific Journals

Packalen, Mikko - 2015

The ranking of scientific journals is important because of the signal it sends to scientists about what is considered … alternative ranking based on the proclivity of journals to publish papers that build on new ideas, and we implement this ranking … most vital for scientific progress. Existing ranking systems focus on measuring the influence of a scientific paper …

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Patent Publication and Innovation

Hegde, Deepak; Herkenhoff, Kyle; Zhu, Chenqi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How does the publication of patents affect innovation? We answer this question by exploiting a large-scale natural experiment--the passage of the American Inventor's Protection Act of 1999 (AIPA)--that accelerated the public disclosure of most U.S. patents by two years. We obtain causal...

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The Impact of U.S.-China Tensions on U.S. Science

Jia, Ruixue; Roberts, Margaret E.; Wang, Ye; Yang, Eddie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper studies how recent investigations of foreign influence in research have affected the productivity of U.S. scientists in the field of life sciences. Using data from PubMed and Dimensions during 2010-2020, we compare scientists who collaborated with scientists in China during 2010-2014...

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In-Text Patent Citations : A User’s Guide

Bryan, Kevin A. - 2019

We introduce, validate, and provide a public database of a new measure of the knowledge inventors draw on: scientific references in patent specifications. These references are common and algorithmically extractable. Critically, they are very different from the "front page" prior art commonly...

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Measuring Technological Innovation over the Long Run

Kelly, Bryan - 2018

We use textual analysis of high-dimensional data from patent documents to create new indicators of technological innovation. We identify significant patents based on textual similarity of a given patent to previous and subsequent work: these patents are distinct from previous work but are...

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Self-Citation, Cumulative Advantage, and Gender Inequality in Science

Azoulay, Pierre - 2020

In science, self-citation is often interpreted as an act of self-promotion that (artificially) boosts the visibility of one's prior work in the short term, which could then inflate professional authority in the long term. Recently, in light of research on the gender gap in self-promotion, two,...

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