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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Online accessibility of academic articles and the diversity of economics |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Series Name | Working paper series / Department of Economics |
| Number | 75 |
| ISSN | 1664-7041 |
| Number of Pages | 51 |
| Date | 2012 |
| Abstract Text | A key aspect of generating new ideas is drawing from different elements of preexisting knowledge and combining them into a new idea. In such a process, the diversity of ideas plays a central role. This paper examines the empirical question of how the internet affected the diversity of new research by making the existing literature accessible online. The internet marks a technological shock which affects how academic scientists search for and browse through published documents. Using article-level data from economics journals for the period 1991 to 2009, we document how online accessibility lead academic economists to draw from a more diverse set of literature, and to write articles which incorporated more diverse contents. |
| Official URL | http://www.econ.uzh.ch/static/wp/econwp075.pdf |
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| Keywords | Digitization, online publication, bibliometrics, knowledge production function, recombinant growth, citations, networks, scholarly communication, technische Innovation, technischer Fortschritt, soziales Lernen, Internet, Netzwerk |