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Consolidation in a crisis: Patterns of international collaboration in early C...
This paper seeks to understand whether a catastrophic and urgent event, such as the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, accelerates or reverses trends in international... -
From North American hegemony to global competition for scientific leadership?...
Based on the entire population of Nobel laureates in science from 1901 to 2017, we show that North America’s rise as global power in science started in the 1920s. Following a... -
Vanishing industries and the rising monopoly of universities in published res...
Anecdotes abound regarding the decline of basic research in industrial and governmental settings, but very little empirical evidence exists about the phenomenon. This article... -
The validation of peer review through research impact measures and the implic...
There is a paucity of data in the literature concerning the validation of the grant application peer review process, which is used to help direct billions of dollars in research... -
Scientific output scales with resources. A comparison of US and European univ...
By using a comprehensive dataset of US and European universities, we demonstrate super-linear scaling between university revenues and their volume of publications and... -
Follow the leader: On the relationship between leadership and scholarly impac...
National contributions to science are influenced by a number of factors, including economic capacity, national scientific priorities, science policy, and institutional settings...
