Scooped Researchers Publish Less in Top Journals and Get 21% Fewer Citations
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-09
Economist Florian Ederer highlights a follow-up paper by Ryan Reed Hill and Carolyn Stein showing that scooping incentives in science decrease research quality: losers in priority races are less likely to publish in a top-10 journal and receive 21% fewer citations. The finding is a timely academic lens on the current OpenAI/Navier-Stokes scooping controversy.
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