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-OA articles published between June 8, 2004, and December 20, 2004, in the same journal (PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy … of Sciences). There is strong evidence tthat, even in a journal that is widely available in research libraries, OA … articles are more immediately recognized and cited by peers than non-OA articles published in the same journal. OA is likely to …
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They collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of … we find that movers and stayers have identical h-index citations scores. Immigrants in the UK and US now win Nobel Prizes …
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Open access journal publishing is currently at a systematic disadvantage relative to the traditional subscription …-based journal publishing. A simple, cost effective remedy to this inequity is proposed that would put open access publishing on a … path to become a sustainable, efficient system, allowing the two journal publishing systems to compete on a more level …
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The analysis focuses on immigrants and native-born individuals because employers are likely to have less reliable signals of productivity for an immigrant than a native-born individual. Using multiple data sets, the paper presents a robust empirical finding that the wage gains associated with...
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This article reviews beer production, consumption and the industrial organization of breweries throughout history. Monasteries were the centers of the beer economy in the early Middle Ages. Innovation and increased demand later induced the growth of commercial breweries. Globalization and...
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topic “Molecular Paleontology and Resurrection: Rewinding the Tape of Life.†Scientists from diverse disciplines and …
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Recent behavioral and neuroimaging studies with humans and monkeys provide compelling evidence of shared numerical capacities across species. In this primer, it is explained why our understanding of the emergence of human mathematical competence is well-served by these kinds of comparative...
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economics perspective, examining in particular the dichotomy between economic and social theory in explaining the nexus between …
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A review and extended discussion is presented of The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice and Lives by Deirdre McCloskey and Stephen Ziliak, a work that raises important issues related to the practice of statistics and that has been widely commented...
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opportunity costs, reflecting economics and tradition). It then outlines promising approaches for increasing female education. The …
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