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Publishing and Promotion in Economics : The Tyranny of the Top Five
Heckman, James J. - 2018
in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U ….S. economics departments, we find that T5 publications have a powerful influence on tenure decisions and rates of transition to … tenure. A survey of the perceptions of young economists supports the formal statistical analysis. Pursuit of T5 publications …
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Differences in citation patterns across journal tiers : The case of economics
Anauati, María 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 … field of economics research (e.g. this ratio is the lowest for econometric methods papers) and with articles' impact (e …
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Women in Academic Economics : Have We Made Progress?
Ginther, Donna K.; Kahn, Shulamit Beth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
economics. We found that women in economics were 15% less likely to be promoted to associate professor after controlling for …
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A Note on the Global Distribution of Authorship in Economics Journals
Greenspon, Jacob; Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
economics journals, disaggregating by country/region, quality of journal, and fields of specialization. We document striking …
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Are Referees and Editors in Economics Gender Neutral?
Card, David - 2019
We study the role of gender in the evaluation of economic research using submissions to four leading journals. We find that referee gender has no effect on the relative assessment of female- versus male-authored papers, suggesting that any differential biases of male referees are negligible. To...
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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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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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Bigger Than You Thought : China's Contribution to Scientific Publications
Xie, Qingnan - 2018
From 2000 to 2016 China increased its scientific publications in the international journals indexed by Scopus to become the largest contributor to global science, accounting for about 23% of journal articles adjusted for the Chinese share of addresses or names on publications. Publications with...
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Paper Tiger? Chinese Science and Home Bias in Citations
Qiu, Shumin; Steinwender, Claudia; Azoulay, Pierre - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We investigate the phenomenon of home bias in scientific citations, where researchers disproportionately cite work from their own country. We develop a benchmark for expected citations based on the relative size of countries, defining home bias as deviations from this norm. Our findings reveal...
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Who Stands on the Shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? : Evidence from Chemistry
Qiu, Shumin; Steinwender, Claudia; Azoulay, Pierre - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In recent decades, Chinese researchers have become preeminent contributors to the scientific enterprise, as reflected by the number of publications originating from Chinese research institutions. China's rise in science has the potential to push forward the global frontier, but mere production...
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