El líder de un grupo de investigación
En el blog Francis (th)E mule Science’s News (por cierto, excelente blog y que os recomiendo) se ha publicado un comentario sobre la importancia que tiene el líder sobre la producción científica y financiación. El post, titulado La importancia de la firma de un ‘pope’ se hace eco de un estudio publicado en The Quaterly Journal of Economics, dónde se estudian 112 casos, analizando el efecto que la muerte inesperada del líder del grupo sobre la producción científica del mismo.
¿Pasaría lo mismo en España (aunque no tengamos ‘popes’ y solo ‘cardinals’).
A continuación incluyo el resumen del artículo.
We estimate the magnitude of spillovers generated by 112 academic “superstars” who died prematurely and unexpectedly, thus providing an exogenous source of variation in the structure of their collaborators’ coauthorship networks. Following the death of a superstar, we find that collaborators experience, on average, a lasting 5% to 8% decline in their quality-adjusted publication rates. By exploring interactions of the treatment effect with a variety of star, coauthor, and star/coauthor dyad characteristics, we seek to adjudicate between plausible mechanisms that might explain this finding. Taken together, our results suggest that spillovers are circumscribed in idea space, but less so in physical or social space. In particular, superstar extinction reveals the boundaries of the scientific field to which the star contributes—the “invisible college.”
Bernardo Herradón
IQOG-CSIC
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