The role of conferences on the pathway to academic impact: Evidence from a natural experiment

FLL de Leon, B McQuillin - Journal of Human Resources, 2020 - jhr.uwpress.org
We provide evidence for the effectiveness of conferences in promoting academic impact by
exploiting the cancellation—due to Hurricane Isaac—of the 2012 American Political Science …

Lost in the storm: The academic collaborations that went missing in hurricane ISSAC

R Campos, F Leon, B McQuillin - The Economic Journal, 2018 - academic.oup.com
By exploiting the cancellation of the 2012 American Political Science Association Annual
Meeting, we investigate the role of conferences in facilitating academic collaboration. We …

Conference presentations and academic publishing

Y Gorodnichenko, T Pham, O Talavera - Economic Modelling, 2021 - Elsevier
This study contributes to the existing literature on the impact of conference presentations on
career progression by quantifying the predictive power of conferences for publication …

What are the social and scientific benefits of participating at academic conferences? Insights from a survey among doctoral students and postdocs in Germany

K Hauss - Research Evaluation, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Academic conferences are global phenomena. As the coronavirus pandemic continues,
many conferences now are being postponed or canceled. Usually, they bring together a …

[HTML][HTML] High impact: Examining predictors of faculty-undergraduate coauthored publication and presentation in psychology

TA Giuliano, IE Kimbell, ES Olson, JL Howell - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Despite the increasing popularity of faculty-undergraduate research, a dearth of research
has investigated factors that predict the professional outcomes of these collaborations. We …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring and visualizing research collaboration and productivity

J Garner, AL Porter, A Leidolf, M Baker - Journal of Data and …, 2018 - sciendo.com
Purpose: This paper presents findings of a quasi-experimental assessment to gauge the
research productivity and degree of interdisciplinarity of research center outputs. Of special …

Do international nonstop flights foster influential research? Evidence from Sino-US scientific collaboration

G Hu, R Ni, L Tang - Journal of Informetrics, 2022 - Elsevier
The tacit nature of knowledge suggests that face-to-face interactions in international
academic collaborations are irreplaceable. Yet, such anecdotal evidence has not been …

How does size matter for science? Exploring the effects of research unit size on academics' scientific productivity and information exchange behaviors

H Horta, TA Lacy - Science and Public Policy, 2011 - academic.oup.com
This article analyzes the impact of research unit size on academics' scientific output and
communication behavior with peers, controlling for individual and organizational …

The substantive and practical significance of citation impact differences between institutions: Guidelines for the analysis of percentiles using effect sizes and …

R Williams, L Bornmann - Measuring scholarly impact: methods and …, 2014 - Springer
In this chapter we address the statistical analysis of percentiles: How should the citation
impact of institutions be compared? In educational and psychological testing, percentiles are …

[HTML][HTML] A theoretical model for the associative nature of conference participation

J Smiljanić, A Chatterjee, T Kauppinen… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Participation in conferences is an important part of every scientific career. Conferences
provide an opportunity for a fast dissemination of latest results, discussion and exchange of …