Much of human knowledge is produced in the world's university departments. There is little scientific evidence, however …, about how those hundreds of thousands of departments are best organized and led. This study hand-collects longitudinal data …'s future research output. After adjustment for a range of personal and institutional characteristics, departmental research …

because it is about to appear in prestigious journal X. Moreover, those who allocate levels of research funding, such as in … the multi-billion pound Research Assessment Exercise in UK universities, often come under pressure to assess research …

research has become much more internationally oriented. In this paper we document changes in the structure of research and …. While higher education started to grow substantially around 1960, only a few decades later, research and higher education … transformation is most clearly revealed in the change of language used in research from the national language, Latin, German and …

. First, there have been many recent calls for the (relatively new) UK R&D subsidy to be extended to other research activities … research councils, universities, and government undertaken work on civil and military R&D. To evaluate these questions we use … data on market sector productivity, R&D and non-R&D intangible assets, and public sector R&D spending. We look for evidence …

We test how a reduction in travel cost affects the rate and direction of scientific research. Using a fine …

We explore the relationship between collaborations in writing papers and the academic productivity of economists and … identify and determine the collaborative structure of economics research in Spain, with its primary communities and figures of … influence.Our results indicate that centrality and productivity are correlated, particularly with respect to a local estimator …

Many governments wish to assess the quality of their universities. A prominent example is the UK's new Research … imperfectly-observed importance of the research). Our study should not be interpreted as the argument that only mechanistic …

We collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of the … large Ramp;D spending. Our study cannot adjudicate on whether migration improves scientists' productivity, but we find that …