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Mapping the evolution of entrepreneurship as a field of research (1990-2013):...
This article applies scientometric techniques to study the evolution of the field of entrepreneurship between 1990 and 2013. Using a combination of topic mapping, author and... -
Exploring the role of interdisciplinarity in physics: Success, talent and luck
Although interdisciplinarity is often touted as a necessity for modern research, the evidence on the relative impact of sectorial versus to interdisciplinary science is... -
Vicious circles of gender bias, lower positions, and lower performance: Gende...
It is often argued that female researchers publish on average less than male researchers do, but male and female authored papers have an equal impact. In this paper we try to... -
Effects of research complexity and competition on the incidence and growth of...
Background Investigations into the factors behind coauthorship growth in biomedical research have mostly focused on specific disciplines or journals, and have rarely... -
Scientific misconduct and accountability in teams
Increasing complexity and multidisciplinarity make collaboration essential for modern science. This, however, raises the question of how to assign accountability for scientific... -
Contest models highlight inherent inefficiencies of scientific funding compet...
Scientific research funding is allocated largely through a system of soliciting and ranking competitive grant proposals. In these competitions, the proposals themselves are not... -
Publications as predictors of racial and ethnic differences in NIH research a...
This research expands efforts to understand differences in NIH funding associated with the self-identified race and ethnicity of applicants. We collected data from 2,397 NIH... -
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... -
Perceived publication pressure in Amsterdam: Survey of all disciplinary field...
Publications determine to a large extent the possibility to stay in academia (“publish or perish”). While some pressure to publish may incentivise high quality research, too... -
Theoretical research without projects
We propose a funding scheme for theoretical research that does not rely on project proposals, but on recent past scientific productivity. Given a quantitative figure of merit on... -
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... -
Double-edged sword of interdisciplinary knowledge flow from hard sciences to ...
: Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) increasingly absorb knowledge from Hard Sciences, i.e., Science, Technology, Agriculture and Medicine (STAM), as testified by a growing... -
Why we publish where we do: Faculty publishing values and their relationship ...
AbstractUsing an online survey of academics at 55 randomly selected institutions across the US and Canada, we explore priorities for publishing decisions and their perceived... -
PR-Index: Using the h-Index and PageRank for Determining True Impact
Several technical indicators have been proposed to assess the impact of authors and institutions. Here, we combine the h-index and the PageRank algorithm to do away with some of... -
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... -
Size, Accumulation and Performance for Research Grants: Examining the Role of...
The present paper examines the relation between size, accumulation and performance for research grants, where we examine the relation between grant size for Centres of... -
The gender gap in science: How long until women are equally represented?
Women comprise a minority of the Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine (STEMM) workforce. Quantifying the gender gap may identify fields that will not...
