TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Schweitzer, Sascha
A1  - Brendel, Jan
T1  - A burden of knowledge creation in academic research: evidence from publication data
JF  - Industry and innovation
N2  - Academic research is vital for innovation and industrial growth. However, a potential burden of processing ever more knowledge could be affecting research output and researchers’ careers. We look at a dataset of researchers who have published in journals in the field of economics during a period of 45 years. For a subset of these researchers, we amass data from journals listed in the EconLit database, supplemented with years of birth from public sources. Our results show an increase in the age of researchers at their first publication, in the number of articles referenced in debut articles, and in the number of co-authors. Simultaneously, we observe a decline in the probability of researchers changing research fields. Our findings extend earlier findings on patents and hint at a burden of knowledge pervading different areas of human progress. Moreover, our results indicate that researchers develop strategies of specialisation to deal with this challenge.
KW  - knowledge creation
KW  - specialisation
KW  - references
KW  - researcher age
KW  - team size
KW  - academic research
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 1366-2716
SS  - 1366-2716
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2020.1716693
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2020.1716693
VL  - 28
IS  - 3
SP  - 283
EP  - 306
S1  - 24
PB  - Routledge
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -