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predict the probability of hit papers in the 1990s and ran these regressions in a flex-
ible manner that avoided imposing functional forms on the data. In particular, we
first divided papers into subsamples based on their median conventionality (11 cat-
egories, from least to greatest median conventionality, as defined in the main text)
and the number of authors (3 categories, for solo authors, two-author pairs, and
three or more authors). This created 33 distinct subsamples. We then ran a separate
regression for each subsample.
For a given subsample, a regression takes the form
Pr( ) ( _
)y
f Tail Novelty
Fieldi
i
f f
fi=
+āĪ² Ī³
where yijā{
}01, is an indicator variable for a āhitā paper, and Tail Noveltyi_ {
}ā
01,
is an indicator variable for whether a paperās 10th percentile z-score is below zero.
The regression includes a full set of fixed effects for each of 243 subfields indexed
by the WOS in the 1990s, where the indicator variables Fieldfiā{
}01, are equal to
1 if the paper i is in field f. The inclusion of these fixed effects accounts for any
mean differences in hit probabilities and tail novelty across subfields. We further
restricted the sample to papers with at least ten known references, which ensured
that each paper in the sample had many pairwise combinations of prior work.
Figure 12.9 establishes a large positive relationship between tail novelty and hit
papers, which appears independently in each of the 33 subsamples. The regressions
further establish that the probability of hit papers increases with median convention-
ality, peaking at approximately the 85th percentile of median conventionality. These
strong empirical regularities extend to alternative analyses. Figure 12.10 reconsid-
ers these regressions defining hit papers to be in the top 1 % of citations received.
The results for this higher threshold for a āhitā paper look extremely similar.
Novelty and Conventionality in Geography
In Fig. 12.11 we show the novel and conventional combinations in papers written in
the field of geography. We do not observe any high degrees of conventionality when
compared with fields like physics and economics. Figure 12.11a presents the distri-
bution of papersā median z-scores for papers published in geography in the indi-
cated decades. Half the papers have median z-scores exceeding 16 in the 1980s in
the 1990s. Papers with a median z-score below zero are rare; only 4 % of papers
displayed this feature in the 1980s and 1990s. Focusing on each paperās left tail
combinations, we found that 25 % of papers in the 1980s and 1990s have a 10th
percentile z-score below 0 (Fig. 12.11b). Overall, by these measures, we observed
that geography papers rarely draw atypical knowledge from prior works.
We investigated the role of team authors in geography in production of knowl-
edge. Our findings support the previous observations in Fig. 12.8: Each team size
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Knowledge and Networks
- Title
- Knowledge and Networks
- Authors
- Johannes GlĆ¼ckler
- Emmanuel Lazega
- Ingmar Hammer
- Publisher
- Springer Open
- Location
- Cham
- Date
- 2017
- Language
- German
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-45023-0
- Size
- 15.5 x 24.1 cm
- Pages
- 390
- Keywords
- Human Geography, Innovation/Technology Management, Economic Geography, Knowledge, Discourse
- Category
- Technik