I measure information on distinct facets of quality from a corpus of reviews and characterize how decision-makers integrate this information present in text with that available through other channels. Specifically, I demonstrate that referee comments at a scholarly journal contain information on...

Considering China's policy-driven patent expansion, we validate domestic citations in comparison to foreign ones, which are exogenous to China's policy, as economic indicators. We derive internationally comparable citation data from international search reports. Whereas foreign citations show...

Sustainability and sustainable development have become a buzzing topic in today's business world. Business organizations are more inclined towards making themselves economically, socially, and environmentally more sustainable. With the introduction of concepts like “Sustainable Supply Chain...

This study investigates whether standard patent measures for the importance and basicness of patents are able to distinguish between, “wacky,” patents and a control group of randomly drawn patents. Our findings show that forward citations are good predictors of importance. However, the,...

Since 1995 approximately 325 publications on stature have appeared in the social sciences, which is more than a four-fold increase in the rate of production relative to the period 1977-1994. The expansion occurred in several areas, but especially within economics, indicating that heights are now...