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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Packalen M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6703833 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of human capital 20190101 2
The aging of the scientific workforce and graying of grant recipients are central policy concerns in biomedicine. These trends are potentially important because older scientists are often seen as less open to new ideas than younger scientists. In this paper, we put this hypothesis to an empirical test. Using a measure of new ideas derived from the text of nearly all biomedical scientific articles published since 1946, we compare the tendency of younger and older researchers to try out new ideas ...[more]