Abstract “Empire building” is a phenomenon that dominates today's research landscape.
Large groups, national priorities and research centers dwarf the spontaneous individual …

Self-organizing networks that span the globe are the most notable feature of science today.
These networks constitute an invisible college of researchers who collaborate not because …

This study accounts for the organization of scientific research in networks of socio-
intellectual tices that bind scientists into a community cultivating the scientific tradition …

Here I show that the pattern of generation of science is in disaccord with the pattern of
admission to the academy. The contrast between the two patterns is illustrated with two …

We examine the hypothesis that research collaboration has enabled a global research
network to evolve, with self-organizing properties transcending national research policy. We …

This study examines the relationship between the scientific endeavor and its external social
environment. The analysis focuses on the effects of external funding and its organizational …

We reconstruct the career-long productivity, impact,(inter) national collaboration, and (inter)
national mobility trajectory of 8.2 million scientists worldwide. We study the interrelationships …

This chapter confronts several interrelated problems as to how the institutional environments
of organizations influence their innovativeness. Using a path-dependent perspective, it …

In this article we rely on constructal theory to show that the hierarchy of universities is rigid,
and that the explanation lies in the nature of education (science, news, information) as a …

The article explores the process by which academic research settings become influenced by
external funders upon whom they depend for vital resources. The emerging resource …