The recruitment of foreign scientists enhances US science through an expanded workforce but could also cause harm by … US science by crowding out better-connected domestic scientists …

country – to China's catching up in global science to become a world leader in research publications and citations. Using a … author. Through those pathways, diaspora research contributed to China’s 2000-2015 catch-up in science and to global science …

from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering … rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can be explained by the relatively greater exit rate from engineering of …-related constraints and dissatisfaction with working conditions are only secondary factors. My results differ due to my use of non-science …

European countries do less research than Japan and the United States. We use a quantitative multi-country growth model … to ask: (i) Why is this so? (ii) Would there be any benefit to expanding research in Europe? (iii) What would various … European research promotion policies do? We find that (i) Europe's lower research effort has more to do with the smaller …

innovations in IT -- BITNET and the Domain Name System (DNS) -- with career history data on research-active life scientists. This … research design allows for proper identification of the availability of access to IT as well as a means to directly identify …: counts, quality, and co-authorship. Our analysis of a random sample of 3,771 research-active life scientists from 430 U …

To what extent does "false science" impact the rate and direction of scientific change? We examine the impact of more …

income, university research funding from science philanthropy is $7Billion a year. This major contribution to U.S. scientific … in this paper demonstrates that science philanthropy provides almost 30% of the annual research funds of those in leading … universities. And yet science philanthropy has been largely overshadowed by the massive rise of Federal research funding and, to a …

Getting science policy right is a core objective of government that bears on scientific advance, economic growth …, health, and longevity. Yet the process of science is changing. As science advances and knowledge accumulates, ensuing … cycle and (ii) from solo researchers toward teams. This paper summarizes the evidence that science has evolved - and …

in science, but the gender gap is entirely explained by fertility decisions. We find that in science overall, there is no … that women in science will advance up the academic job ladder beyond their early post-doctorate years, while both marriage …