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I describe and compare sources of data on citations in economics and the statistics that can be constructed from them. Constructing data sets of the post-publication citation histories of articles published in the "Top 5" journals in the 1970s and the 2000s, I examine distributions and life...
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The ranking of scientific journals is important because of the signal it sends to scientists about what is considered most vital for scientific progress. Existing ranking systems focus on measuring the influence of a scientific paper (citations)--these rankings do not reward journals for...
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Choices are frequently made from lists where there is by necessity some ordering of options. In such situations individuals can exhibit both primacy bias towards the first option and recency bias towards the last option. We examine this phenomenon in a particularly interesting context: consumer...
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collaborated with scientists in China during 2010-2014 with those who collaborated with scientists in other countries outside the U … coincide with a decline in the productivity of scientists with previous collaborations with scientists in China, especially …-investigation NIH funding and U.S.-China collaborations. We also provide suggestive evidence that our findings matter for the aggregate …
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In power-oriented societies, academia may not be immune to the influence of power. This paper studies the power-publication link by applying an event-study strategy to a panel dataset of the publication and biographical information of deans of economics schools in Chinese universities. We find...
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China-born scientists and engineers who conduct their research outside China, the diaspora researchers of our title … connections to China-based researchers and research. Analysis of the Scopus database of English language scientific journal … CiteScore journals. In addition, diaspora researchers helped China advance to the forefront of science through collaboration on …
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The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of … China-born researchers who work in the US ("diaspora") and a larger group of China-born researchers who gained US …-research experience and returned to do their research in China ("returnee"). Analyzing 2018 Scopus data on research papers, we estimate …
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For 35 leading painters who lived in France during the first century of modern art, this paper uses textbook illustrations as the basis for measuring the importance of both painters and individual paintings. The rankings pose an interesting puzzle: why do some of the greatest artists not produce...
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Economists are obsessed with rankings of institutions, journals, or scholars according to the value of some feature of interest. These rankings are invariably computed using estimates rather than the true values of such features. As a result, there may be considerable uncertainty concerning the...
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We investigate a method for eliciting relative poverty rankings that aggregates partial poverty rankings obtained from multiple individuals. We first demonstrate that the method works in principle, then apply it in urban Côte d'Ivoire. We find that constructed rankings are often incomplete, not...
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