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This chapter reviews the data and literature on gender, race and ethnicity differences in research funding in the United States and Europe. The gender gap in research funding has closed at the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health in the United States and substantially...
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Some ideas have dramatically more impact than others – they may overturn existing paradigms or launch new areas of scientific inquiry. Where do such high impact ideas come from? Are some search processes significantly more likely to lead to breakthrough idea generation than others? In this...
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In this essay, we investigate the dominant position of economics within the network of the social sciences in the … United States. We begin by documenting the relative insularity of economics, using bibliometric data. Next we analyze the … tight management of the field from the top down, which gives economics its characteristic hierarchical structure. Economists …
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In this study we compare internationalization of academic journals in six fields of science. Internationalization was investigated through journals' concentration on publishing papers from particular countries, relationship between the geographical distributions of editors and authors, and...
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