[{"id":527,"title":"Textbook Coverage of Inframarginal Externalities","sha":"3cb4e33d058e4cf01d7f204f425b20b4","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"Externalities are an important concept in economics as they are one of the many potential issues with markets. Negative externalities, for example, occur when costs are imposed on others outside the market system. Air pollution is but one example. The presence of externalities is often used as an argument for government intervention to correct these uncompensated effects on third parties. In 1962, James Buchanan and William Stubblebine published an article in the journal Economica that highlighted that some externalities are inframarginal. Externalities that are inframarginal do not distort allocation decisions at the current market equilibrium and thus there is not any distortion for government to correct. Despite the Buchanan and Stubblebine article having over one thousand citations in Google Scholar, most public economics textbooks do not mention the topic. The one exception seems to be Randall Holcombe’s Public Sector Economics text.  Why this important point about the divergence between what is good for individuals and what is good for society has not been incorporated into textbooks would be an interesting exercise given the papers widespread use by scholars. The format could be similar to Johansson “Economics without Entrepreneurship or Institutions” (Econ Journal Watch, 2004).  ","created_at":"2018-10-22T20:31:29.016Z","updated_at":"2018-10-22T22:45:41.450Z","zenodo_id":1469111,"doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1469111","subject":null,"tags":["inframarginal externality","externality","textbook","citations"],"vote_count":1,"view_count":1,"score":1.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":true,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null},{"id":125,"title":"Dissecting the OA Citation Advantage: Bayesian approaches will be superior to randomised control trials","sha":"573b1730eaa5e298e92b98deb1e9b3cc","user_id":471,"state":"published","body":"The idea that open access articles are more highly cited is attractive, particularly for open access advocates. While there have been many retrospective cohort analyses that suggest citations advantages of various sizes, randomized control trials have shown no effect. The problem with randomised control trials is that they require a tight definition of the posited effect and sufficient statistical power, which can be challenging to determine in advance. RCTs reported have for instance focussed on making a a subset of articles in a closed journal free to read. While this addresses the literal question of an access related citation advantage, it controlls away various potential effects of interest such as closed vs open journals, differences in indexing or promotion etc. There is also the risk of disciplinary bias based on the journals studied.\r\n\r\nThe question we should be asking is \"how can we best ensure that research reaches the right place for its use\". This is better addressed using very large and disciplinarily diverse datasets. A time domain signal processing approach could provide a statistical model of pathways from article publication to downstream citation. This can provide a statistical estimate of whether pathways for closed vs open access are different.\r\n","created_at":"2015-03-22T20:45:49.468Z","updated_at":"2015-03-25T19:42:57.913Z","zenodo_id":25350,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16271","subject":null,"tags":["citations","open-access","citation-advantage","altmetrics","article-level-metrics"],"vote_count":4,"view_count":1,"score":4.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":true,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null},{"id":884,"title":"Publication of conference lightning talks in scientific journals shown on a exemplary lightning talk about nomograms ","sha":"19d667ad863e5dc1fe20d0b4a6c38af6","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"Lightning Talks have become a popular format at conferences. Within five minutes, a topic is presented that meets scientific standards. In this time, information can be presented that is also contained in papers. In many scientific fields, citations are made only from written papers (for ease of reference), even though oral and videotaped information are equivalent. Talks are rarely cited. However, citations represent the leading currency in science. This idea aims to fill this identified gap.\r\n\r\nThis Lightning Talk deals with nomograms. It shows how they are used and what advantages and disadvantages they have in contrast to computer-aided predictions. It will also show that this technique has been used for a long time and is still presented in leading journals. The slides of the talk are provided as a pdf file and are stored on zenodo.com using this approach.\r\n\r\nThe presentation is structured in classical order: (Introduction, Methodology, Results And Discussion) [IMRAD]. The transcript of the presentation is shown as a Jupyter Notebook, as this also allows computer code to be displayed and run through. References are recorded at the end. Here, this presentation represents an extension of knowledge from the audience, since the technique of nomograms is seldomly taught except engineering and medicine.\r\n ","created_at":"2021-09-27T17:38:22.349Z","updated_at":"2021-11-15T16:21:28.456Z","zenodo_id":5606096,"doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5606096","subject":null,"tags":["lightning talk","python","nomogram","citations"],"vote_count":2,"view_count":1,"score":2.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":true,"attachment_file_name":"Nomograms(1).pdf","attachment_content_type":"application/pdf","attachment_file_size":268192,"attachment_updated_at":"2021-09-27T17:38:22.329Z"}]