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findings, and of their research field as a whole. The paper emphasizes a dynamic view of research processes, in which learning …-makers tomorrow, dynamic research processes are affected by research externalities, i.e. research practices that have high social … value but low private returns. The paper identifies several of these research externalities and argues that funding …
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Presenting data on all full-length articles published in the three top general economics journals for one year in each of the 1960s through 2010s, I analyze how patterns of co-authorship, age structure and methodology have changed, and what the possible causes of these changes may have been. The...
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This paper studies how recent investigations of foreign influence in research have affected the productivity of U …
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Are scientific knowledge flows embodied in individuals, or "in the air"? To answer this question, we measure the effect of labor mobility in a sample of 9,483 elite academic life scientists on the citation trajectories associated with individual articles (resp. patents) published (resp. granted)...
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The information content of academic citations is subject to debate. This paper views premature death as a tragic "natural experiment," outlining a methodology identifying the "citation death tax" -- the impact of death of productive economists on the patterns of their citations. We rely on a...
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We compile the list of articles published in major refereed economics journals during the last 35 years that have received more than 500 citations. We document major shifts in the mode of contribution and in the importance of different sub-fields: Theory loses out to empirical work, and micro...
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In science as well as technology, the diffusion of new ideas influences innovation and productive efficiency. With this as motivation we use citations to scientific papers to measure the diffusion of science through the U.S. economy. To indicate the speed of diffusion we rely primarily on the...
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The estimates indicate that cancer sites about which more research-supported articles were published since the 1970s … in the number of people diagnosed. Cancer sites for which more non-research-supported articles were published did not …The research support that contributed to articles published during 1987-2001 reduced premature (before age 75 …
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Research which explores unchartered waters has a high potential for major impact but also carries a higher uncertainty … of having impact. Such explorative research is often described as taking a novel approach. This study examines the … complex relationship between pursuing a novel approach and impact. Viewing scientific research as a combinatorial process, we …
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entry rates into the subfields of 452 academic life scientists who pass away prematurely. Consistent with previous research …
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