Negatively correlated author seniority and the number of acknowledged people: Name-recognition as a signal of scientific merit?

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1234-1247

  Berg, Nathan ^a,b   Faria, Joao ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic networks; Economics of science; Economists

Indexed keywords

EID: 43049173425     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2007.03.012     Document Type: Article

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