U.S. and Them : The Geography of Academic Research

Using a database of 76,046 empirical economics papers published between 1985 and 2005, we report two associations. First, research output on a given country increases with the country's population and wealth, yielding a strong correlation between per-capita research output and per-capita GDP. R...

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Main Authors:	Das, Jishnu, Do, Quy-Toan, Shaines, Karen, Srikant, Sowmya
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Elsevier 2013
Subjects:	academic research publications economics papers Microdata Set
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16203

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spelling	okr-10986-162032021-04-23T14:03:27Z U.S. and Them : The Geography of Academic Research Das, Jishnu Do, Quy-Toan Shaines, Karen Srikant, Sowmya academic research publications economics papers Microdata Set Using a database of 76,046 empirical economics papers published between 1985 and 2005, we report two associations. First, research output on a given country increases with the country's population and wealth, yielding a strong correlation between per-capita research output and per-capita GDP. Regressions controlling for data quality, governance and the use of English give an estimated research–wealth elasticity of 0.32; surprisingly, the U.S. is not an outlier. Second, papers written about the U.S. are 2.5 percentage-points more likely to be published in the top five economics journals after accounting for authors' institutional affiliations and the field of study. This is a large effect because only 1.5% of all papers written about countries other than the U.S. are published in first-tier journals. No similar premium for research on the U.S. is detected in second-tier general interest journals, where papers from the UK and Europe command a substantial premium instead. 2013-10-28T20:19:50Z 2013-10-28T20:19:50Z 2013-08-02 Journal Article Journal of Development Economics 0304-3878 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16203 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ World Bank Elsevier Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research
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description	Using a database of 76,046 empirical economics papers published between 1985 and 2005, we report two associations. First, research output on a given country increases with the country's population and wealth, yielding a strong correlation between per-capita research output and per-capita GDP. Regressions controlling for data quality, governance and the use of English give an estimated research–wealth elasticity of 0.32; surprisingly, the U.S. is not an outlier. Second, papers written about the U.S. are 2.5 percentage-points more likely to be published in the top five economics journals after accounting for authors' institutional affiliations and the field of study. This is a large effect because only 1.5% of all papers written about countries other than the U.S. are published in first-tier journals. No similar premium for research on the U.S. is detected in second-tier general interest journals, where papers from the UK and Europe command a substantial premium instead.
format	Journal Article
author	Das, Jishnu Do, Quy-Toan Shaines, Karen Srikant, Sowmya
author_facet	Das, Jishnu Do, Quy-Toan Shaines, Karen Srikant, Sowmya
author_sort	Das, Jishnu
title	U.S. and Them : The Geography of Academic Research
title_short	U.S. and Them : The Geography of Academic Research
title_full	U.S. and Them : The Geography of Academic Research
title_fullStr	U.S. and Them : The Geography of Academic Research
title_full_unstemmed	U.S. and Them : The Geography of Academic Research
title_sort	u.s. and them : the geography of academic research
publisher	Elsevier
publishDate	2013
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U.S. and Them : The Geography of Academic Research

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