Arbeitspapier
Informal intellectual collaboration with central colleagues
When preparing a research article, academics engage in informal intellectual collaboration by asking their colleagues for feedback. This collaboration gives rise to a social network between academics. We study whether informal intellectual collaboration with an academic who is more central in this social network results in a research article having higher scientific impact. To address the well-known reflection problem in estimating network effects, we use the assignment of discussants at NBER summer institutes as a quasi-natural experiment. We show that manuscripts discussed by a discussant with a 10% higher than average Bonacich centrality rank results in 1.4% more citations and a 5% higher probability that an article is published in a top journal. To illustrate our results, we develop a structural model in which a positive externality from intellectual collaboration implies that collaborating with a more central colleague results in larger scientific impact of the research article.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 2084
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Wirtschaft
Sociology of Economics
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Financial Economics: General
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- Subject
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informal intellectual collaboration
social network
scientific impact
centrality
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Georg, Co-Pierre
Opolot, Daniel C.
Rose, Michael E.
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Veröffentlichung
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Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
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Kiel
- (when)
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2017
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Georg, Co-Pierre
- Opolot, Daniel C.
- Rose, Michael E.
- Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
Time of origin
- 2017
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