Michael E. Rose

Economics of Science · Innovation Economics · Natural Language Processing · Digital Transformation

Welcome and Moin! I am a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich.



Portrait of Michael E. Rose

Social Structure of Science

[Work in Progress] Trump, Iran, and Science

with Stefano H. Baruffaldi and Carolin Formella

[Work in Progress] Nobelwomen: Status and Gender Balance in Science

with Laura Rosendahl Huber and Stefano H. Baruffaldi

[Journal article] Allegations of Sexual Misconduct, Accused Scientists, and Their Research  (Review of Economics and Statistics)

Review of Economics and Statistics , forthcoming

with Rainer Widmann and Marina Chugunova

CRC TRR 190 Coffee Break     Replication repository

[Journal article] Sprynger: Scriptable Bibliometrics using a Python Interface to Springer Nature  (SoftwareX)

SoftwareX 31 (September) 2025

with Nils Herrmann

Software Documentation

[Journal article] Finding Doppelgängers in Scopus: How to Build Scientists Control Groups Using Sosia  (Scientometrics)

Scientometrics , 2025

with Stefano H. Baruffaldi

Software Documentation     Software repository

[Journal article] Reproducibility in Management Science  (Management Science)

Management Science 70(30), 2024

as part of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration; main authors: Miloš Fišar, Ben Greiner, Christoph Huber, Elena Katok and Ali Ozkes

[Journal article] Adviser connectedness and placement outcomes in the economics job market  (Labour Economics)

Labour Economics 84(102397), 2023

with Suraj Shekhar

The Network Pages     Replication repository     Data repository     Slides

[Journal article] Discussants  (Research Policy)

Research Policy 51(10), 2022

with Daniel C. Opolot and Co-Pierre Georg

The Network Pages     Replication repository     Data repository     Slides

[Journal article] Small World: Narrow, Wide and Long Replication of Goyal, Van Der Leij and Moraga-González (JPE 2006) and a Comparison of Econlit and Scopus  (Journal of Applied Econometrics)

Journal of Applied Econometrics 37(4), 2022

Replication repository

[Book chapter] Women in Creative Labor: Inventors, Entrepreneurs and Academics  (Fundamental Questions. Gender Dimensions in Max Planck Research Projects)

Fundamental Questions. Gender Dimensions in Max Planck Research Projects edited by Ulla Weber; Nomos: 2021, p. 135-154

with Laura Bechthold, Marina Chugunova, Svenja Friess and Karin Hoisl

[Journal article] The Rise of Multiple Institutional Affiliations  (Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology)

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 72(8), 2021

with Hanna Hottenrott and Cornelia Lawson

Ökonomenstimme     LSE Impact Blog     Replication repository

[Journal article] What 5,000 Acknowledgements Tell Us About Informal Collaboration in Financial Economics  (Research Policy)

Research Policy 50(6), July 2021

with Co-Pierre Georg

voxeu.org     The Conversation     The Network Pages     Replication repository     Data repository     Website     Slides

[Journal article] pybliometrics: Scriptable bibliometrics using a Python interface to Scopus  (SoftwareX)

SoftwareX 10 (July-December) 2019

with John R. Kitchin

Software Documentation     Software repository


Ukrainian Science

[Preprint] Shelter in Scholarship: Evidence from a Global Survey of Hosts for Displaced Ukrainian Scientists

Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 24-01

with Katarína Juríková, Marina Pelepets, Olga Slivko and Julia Yereshko

[Letter] Funding databases for Ukrainian academics  (Science)

Science 377(6605), July 2022

with Valentina Mosienko, Marina Pelepets and Sanita Reinsone

[Report] #ScienceForUkraine: an Initiative to Support the Ukrainian Academic Community. “3 Months Since Russia’s Invasion in Ukraine”, February 26 – May 31, 2022

Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 22-13

with Sanita Reinsone and 39 other volunteers from #ScienceForUkraine

[Letter] Addressing the needs of Ukrainian scholars at risk  (Nature Human Behaviour)

Nature Human Behaviour 6(6), June 2022

with Maciej Maryl, Oleksandra V. Ivashchenko, Matiss Reinfelds and Sanita Reinsone


Technology Transfer

[Work in Progress] Tracing the Flow of Knowledge From Science to Technology Using Deep Learning

with Dietmar Harhoff, Erik Buunk, Cheng Li, Sebastian Ehrhardt and Mainak Ghosh

[Conference proceeding] Logic Mill - A Knowledge Navigation System  (PatentSemTech 2024)

PatentSemTech 2024 as part of the Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Patent Text Mining and Semantic Technologies, Washington D.C., USA, July 28th, 2024

with Sebastian Ehrhardt, Mainak Ghosh, Erik Buunk and Dietmar Harhoff

[Preprint] PaECTER: Patent-level Representation Learning using Citation-informed Transformers

arXiv 2402.19411, February 2024

with Mainak Ghosh, Sebastian Ehrhardt, Erik Buunk and Dietmar Harhoff


Digital Transformation

[Journal article] Digitalization and Signatures: Evidence from a Survey among German Citizens  (Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy)

Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy , forthcoming

with Jörg Hoffmann and Dietmar Harhoff

[Journal article] Digital Consumer Law, Competition and the (Un-)Informed Consumer: Evidence from a Survey among German Consumers  (Journal of European Consumer and Market Law)

Journal of European Consumer and Market Law 14(4), 2025

with Jörg Hoffmann and Dietmar Harhoff

[Policy piece] Unwissende Bürger, uninformierte Verbraucher: Wenn digitale Vereinfachungen ins Leere laufen  (ifo Schnelldienst)

ifo Schnelldienst 78(08), 2025

with Jörg Hoffmann and Dietmar Harhoff

[Policy piece] Wer hat die elektronische Ausweisfunktion aktiviert?  (Wirtschaftsdienst)

Wirtschaftsdienst 105(7), 2025

with Jörg Hoffmann and Dietmar Harhoff

Tagesspiegel Background Digitalisierung


Sovereign Debt

[Policy piece] Debt must be invested, not consumed  (ERSA Research Brief)

ERSA Research Brief 36, August 2015

with Co-Pierre Georg and Hylton Hollander

[Policy piece] Four Lessons from the Greek sovereign debt crisis  (ERSA Research Brief)

ERSA Research Brief 34, July 2015

with Co-Pierre Georg and Hylton Hollander


Software

pybliometrics (formerly scopus)

John Kitchin and I develop pybliometrics, being a Python module for easy, large-scale interaction with Elsevier's Scopus bibliometric database.

Software Documentation     Software repository

SoftwareX 10 (July-December 2019) p. 100263

sosia

Stefano Baruffaldi and I develop sosia, a Python module to match researchers online in the Scopus database (useful for Diff-in-Diff analysis).

Software Documentation     Software repository

scholarmetrics

I develop scholarmetrics, a python package for fast computation of citation metrics.

Software Documentation     Software repository

Data Sharing

I believe in data sharing. Here is my contribution:

Learning from the Masters

Being an empirical researcher, I'd like to recommend a number of "manuals" that helped me set foot in the academic world: