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Superstar Economists : Coauthorship Networks and Research Output
Hsieh, Chih-Sheng - 2019
We study the impact of research collaborations in coauthorship networks on research output and how optimal funding can maximize it. Through the links in the collaboration network, researchers create spillovers not only to their direct coauthors but also to researchers indirectly linked to them....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892043
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Alphabetized Co-Authorship in Economics Reconsidered
Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bornmann, Lutz - 2021
In this article, we revisit the analysis of Laband and Tollison (2006) who documented that articles with two authors in alphabetical order are cited much more often than non-alphabetized papers with two authors in the American Economic Review and the American Journal of Agricultural Economics....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216255
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Classifying Top Economists Using Archetypoid Analysis
Gralka, Sabine; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2021
Updating the study by Seiler and Wohlrabe (2013) we use archetypoid analysis to classify top economists. The approach allows us to identify typical characteristics of extreme (archetypal) values in a multivariate data set. In contrast to its predecessor, the archetypal analysis, archetypoids...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217550
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What's Worth Knowing? Economists' Opinions About Economics
Falk, Armin; Andre, Peter - 2021
We document economists’ opinions about what is worth knowing and ask (i) which research objectives economic research should embrace and (ii) which topics it should study. Almost 10,000 economic researchers from all fields and ranks of the profession participated in our global survey. Detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219066
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Do Working Papers Increase Journal Citations? Evidence from the Top 5 Journals in Economics
Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bürgi, Constantin - 2021
Does it pay off in terms of citations to issue an article as a working paper before it is published in a refereed journal? We show empirically that the answer is yes, using 3167 articles published in five of the top journals in economics between 2000 and 2010. The effect is an around 25% higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315144
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The Influence of COVID-19 on Publications in Economics : Bibliometric Evidence from Five Working Paper Series
Bürgi, Constantin; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2022
We compare Covid-related working papers in economics to non-Covid-related working papers in four dimensions. Based on five well-known working papers series and data from the RePEc website, we find that Covid papers are mainly cover topics in macroeconomics and health, they are written by larger...
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Linguistic Metrics for Patent Disclosure : Evidence from University Versus Corporate Patents
Kong, Nancy; Dulleck, Uwe; sun, shupeng; Vajjala, Sowmya; … - 2021
Encouraging inventors to disclose new inventions is an important economic justification for the patent system, yet the … technical information contained in patent applications is often inadequate and unclear. This paper proposes a novel approach to … measure disclosure in patent applications using algorithms from computation allinguistics. Borrowing methods from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315298
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A Meta-Analysis of the Literature on Climate Change and Migration
Beine, Michel A. R. - 2019
Recent surveys of the literature on climate change and migration emphasize the important diversity of outcomes and approaches of the empirical studies. In this paper, we conduct a meta-analysis in order to investigate the role of the methodological choices of these empirical studies in finding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892169
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Citations and Incentives in Academic Contests
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2019
There are several empirical studies of ex post analysis of citations in academia. There is no ex ante analysis of citations. I consider a game-theoretic model of a contest between scholars on the basis of two widely-used measures of citations (i.e., the h-index and total citation count) and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860576
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The Impact of the German 'DEAL' on Competition in the Academic Publishing Market
Haucap, Justus; Moshgbar, Nima; Schmal, Wolfgang Benedikt - 2021
The German DEAL agreements between German universities and research institutions on the one side and Springer Nature and Wiley on the other side facilitate easy open access publishing for researchers located in Germany. We use a dataset of all publications in chemistry from 2016 to 2020 and...
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