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

Full research papers and conference proceedings

Allegations of Sexual Misconduct, Accused Scientists, and Their Research

Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming

with Rainer Widmann and Marina Chugunova

Replication repository

Digital Consumer Law, Competition and the (Un-)Informed Consumer: Evidence from a Survey among German Consumers

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

with Jörg Hoffmann and Dietmar Harhoff

Sprynger: Scriptable Bibliometrics using a Python Interface to Springer Nature

SoftwareX 31 (September) 2025

with Nils Herrmann

Software Documentation

Finding Doppelgängers in Scopus: How to Build Scientists Control Groups Using Sosia

Scientometrics, 2025

with Stefano H. Baruffaldi

Software Documentation     Software repository

Logic Mill - A Knowledge Navigation System

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

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

Adviser connectedness and placement outcomes in the economics job market

Labour Economics 84(102397), 2023

with Suraj Shekhar

Blogs: The Network Pages

Replication repository Data repository Slides

Discussants

Research Policy 51(10), 2022

with Daniel C. Opolot and Co-Pierre Georg

Blogs: The Network Pages

Replication repository Data repository Slides

The Rise of Multiple Institutional Affiliations

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

with Hanna Hottenrott and Cornelia Lawson

Blogs: Ökonomenstimme    LSE Impact Blog

Replication repository

What 5,000 Acknowledgements Tell Us About Informal Collaboration in Financial Economics

Research Policy 50(6), July 2021

with Co-Pierre Georg

Blogs: vox.eu    the conversation    The Network Pages

Replication repository Data repository Website Slides

pybliometrics: Scriptable bibliometrics using a Python interface to Scopus

SoftwareX 10 (July-December) 2019

with John R. Kitchin

Software Documentation     Software repository


Peer-reviewed replications

Reproducibility in 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

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 37(4), 2022

Replication repository


Policy pieces (partly peer-reviewed)

Unwissende Bürger, uninformierte Verbraucher: Wenn digitale Vereinfachungen ins Leere laufen

with Jörg Hoffmann and Dietmar Harhoff

ifo Schnelldienst (Germany) 78(08), 2025

Wer hat die elektronische Ausweisfunktion aktiviert?

with Jörg Hoffmann and Dietmar Harhoff

Wirtschaftsdienst (Germany) 105(7), 2025

Tagesspiegel Background Digitalisierung

Debt must be invested, not consumed

with Co-Pierre Georg and Hylton Hollander

ERSA Research Brief (South Africa) 36, August 2015

Four Lessons from the Greek sovereign debt crisis

with Co-Pierre Georg and Hylton Hollander

ERSA Research Brief (South Africa) 34, July 2015

Letters/Correspondences

Funding databases for Ukrainian academics

Science 377(6605), July 2022

with Valentina Mosienko, Marina Pelepets and Sanita Reinsone

Addressing the needs of Ukrainian scholars at risk

Nature Human Behaviour 6(6), June 2022

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


Book chapters

Women in Creative Labor: Inventors, Entrepreneurs and Academics

Ulla Weber (ed.): Fundamental Questions. Gender Dimensions in Max Planck Research Projects, Nomos: 2021, p. 135-154

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


Working Papers

Digitalization and Signatures: Evidence from a Survey among German Citizens

Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 25-05

with Jörg Hoffmann and Dietmar Harhoff

PaECTER: Patent-level Representation Learning using Citation-informed Transformers

arXiv 2402.19411, February 2024

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

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


Work in Progress

Trump, Iran, and Science

with Stefano H. Baruffaldi and Carolin Formella

Nobelwomen: Status and Gender Balance in Science

with Laura Rosendahl Huber and Stefano H. Baruffaldi

Tracing the Flow of Knowledge From Science to Technology Using Deep Learning

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

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: