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Matthew Effects in Science and the Serial Diffusion of Ideas Testing Old Ideas with New Methods
2021
Quantitative Science Studies
The Matthew effect has become a standard concept in science studies and beyond to describe processes of cumulative advantage. Despite its wide success, a rigorous quantitative analysis for Merton's original case for Matthew effects – the Nobel Prize – is still missing. This paper aims to fill this gap by exploring the causal effect of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (hereafter the Nobel Prize in Economics). Furthermore, we test another of Merton's
doi:10.1162/qss_a_00129
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