Power Laws and Market Shares: Cumulative Advantage and the Billboard Hot 100
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DOI: 10.1080/09298215.2017.1358285
Abstract: AbstractThe existence of highly skewed success distributions in the music industry has been repeatedly demonstrated by scholars, but there still is no agreement about how these shapes relate to concepts like ‘talent’, ‘reputation’ and ‘quality’.… read more here.
Keywords: music; power; advantage; billboard hot ... See more keywords
Merit and placement in the American faculty hierarchy: Cumulative advantage in archaeology
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259038
Abstract: If faculty placement in the American academic hierarchy is by merit, then it correlates with scholarly productivity at all career stages. Recently developed data-collection methods and bibliometric measures test this proposition in a cross-sectional sample… read more here.
Keywords: merit; cumulative advantage; placement american; faculty ... See more keywords
Cumulative advantage and citation performance of repeat authors in scholarly journals
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0265831
Abstract: Cumulative advantage–commonly known as the Matthew Effect–influences academic output and careers. Given the challenge and uncertainty of gauging the quality of academic research, gatekeepers often possess incentives to prefer the work of established academics. Such… read more here.
Keywords: repeat authors; cumulative advantage; repeat; repeat authorships ... See more keywords