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100	1		_aFry, Caroline.
245	1	0	_aAuthor Country of Origin and Attention on Open Science Platforms: _bEvidence from COVID-19 Preprints / _cCaroline Fry, Megan MacGarvie.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c2023.
300			_a1 online resource: _billustrations (black and white);
490	1		_aNBER working paper series _vno. w31565
500			_aAugust 2023.
520	3		_aOnline platforms such as preprint servers have become an important way to disseminate new scientific knowledge prior to peer review. However, little is known about how attention to preprints may vary across authors from different countries of origin, particularly relative to evaluation in expert-controlled systems such as scientific journals. This study explores how readers allocated attention across preprints in the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic, a time when there was an increase in demand for new research and a corresponding increase in the use of preprint platforms around the world. We find that, after controlling carefully for article quality and topic as well as the prominence of the preprint's ultimate publication outlet, preprints with authors from Chinese institutions receive less attention, and preprints with authors from U.S. institutions receive more attention, than preprints with authors from the rest of the world. In an exploration of potential mechanisms driving the observed effects, we find evidence that when evaluation is more constrained, in terms of lack of knowledge or expertise and increase in time pressure, audiences tend to make greater use of preprint authors' country of origin as a proxy for quality or relevance. The results suggest that geographic biases may persist or even be exacerbated on platforms designed to promote unfettered access to early research findings.
530			_aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538			_aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588	0		_aPrint version record
690		7	_aInnovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives _2jelc
650		7	_aInnovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives _2jelc
084			_aO31 _2jelc
690		7	_aTechnological Change: Choices and Consequences • Diffusion Processes _2jelc
650		7	_aTechnological Change: Choices and Consequences • Diffusion Processes _2jelc
084			_aO33 _2jelc
690		7	_aOpen Innovation _2jelc
650		7	_aOpen Innovation _2jelc
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700	1		_aMacGarvie, Megan. _933127
710	2		_aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830		0	_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w31565.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w31565
856			_yAcceso en línea al DOI _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w31565
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