Paul Nightingale

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Paul Nightingale is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management and Management of Technology and Innovation. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Nightingale has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 17 papers in Strategy and Management and 13 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation. Recurrent topics in Paul Nightingale's work include Innovation and Knowledge Management (13 papers), Innovation Policy and R&D (11 papers) and Biotechnology and Related Fields (8 papers). Paul Nightingale is often cited by papers focused on Innovation and Knowledge Management (13 papers), Innovation Policy and R&D (11 papers) and Biotechnology and Related Fields (8 papers). Paul Nightingale collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Spain. Paul Nightingale's co-authors include Alex Coad, Paul Martin, Ismael Ràfols, Alice O’Hare, Michael M. Hopkins, Loet Leydesdorff, Andy Stirling, Werner Hölzl, Sven‐Olov Daunfeldt and Dan Johansson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Biotechnology, Research Policy and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Paul Nightingale

60 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. How journal rankings can suppress interdisciplinary research: A comparison between Innovation Studies and Business & Management
    2012 392 citations Ismael Ràfols, Loet Leydesdorff et al. Research Policy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Paul Nightingale United Kingdom 23 883 763 754 336 286 62 2.7k
Timothy Simcoe United States 20 960 1.1× 1.0k 1.3× 664 0.9× 632 1.9× 203 0.7× 61 3.0k
Jan Youtie United States 32 1.0k 1.1× 963 1.3× 1.0k 1.3× 147 0.4× 323 1.1× 131 3.7k
John P. Walsh United States 15 1.5k 1.7× 1.5k 1.9× 1.3k 1.7× 276 0.8× 144 0.5× 20 3.0k
Ulrich Schmoch Germany 24 1.7k 1.9× 1.3k 1.7× 1.5k 2.0× 226 0.7× 297 1.0× 70 4.0k
Valentina Tartari Denmark 14 818 0.9× 1.4k 1.9× 1.8k 2.3× 308 0.9× 242 0.8× 37 3.1k
Patrick Llerena France 21 1.4k 1.5× 1.5k 2.0× 1.5k 2.0× 253 0.8× 223 0.8× 74 3.3k
Anders Broström Sweden 16 779 0.9× 1.2k 1.5× 1.3k 1.7× 224 0.7× 213 0.7× 44 2.6k
Benoı̂t Godin Canada 25 867 1.0× 831 1.1× 815 1.1× 75 0.2× 498 1.7× 89 3.0k
Francisco Veloso United States 22 608 0.7× 999 1.3× 345 0.5× 123 0.4× 213 0.7× 55 2.2k
Magnus Gulbrandsen Norway 20 644 0.7× 781 1.0× 887 1.2× 231 0.7× 152 0.5× 78 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Paul Nightingale

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paul Nightingale

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Nightingale

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Paul Nightingale. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Paul Nightingale based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Paul Nightingale. Paul Nightingale is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Tomaselli, Venera, et al.. (2025). Estimation of disciplinary similarity with large language models. Scientometrics. 130(10). 5345–5373.
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Coad, Alex, Sven‐Olov Daunfeldt, Werner Hölzl, Dan Johansson, & Paul Nightingale. (2014). High-growth firms: introduction to the special section. Industrial and Corporate Change. 23(1). 91–112. 248 indexed citations
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Coad, Alex, Julian Frankish, Paul Nightingale, & Richard Roberts. (2014). Business experience and start-up size: Buying more lottery tickets next time around?. Small Business Economics. 43(3). 529–547. 22 indexed citations
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Nightingale, Paul. (2014). Schumpeter’s theological roots? Harnack and the origins of creative destruction.. Journal of Evolutionary Economics. 25(1). 69–75. 7 indexed citations
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Nightingale, Paul. (2014). What is Technology? Six Definitions and Two Pathologies. SSRN Electronic Journal. 15 indexed citations
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Coad, Alex, Marc Cowling, Paul Nightingale, et al.. (2014). Innovative firms and growth: UK Innovation Survey. 2 indexed citations
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Toschi, Laura, Federico Munari, & Paul Nightingale. (2012). Mix and Match: Corporate Diversification and CVC Portfolio Strategies. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 2 indexed citations
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Yaqub, Ohid & Paul Nightingale. (2012). Vaccine innovation, translational research and the management of knowledge accumulation. Social Science & Medicine. 75(12). 2143–2150. 19 indexed citations
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Hopkins, Michael M., Paul Nightingale, & Charles Baden‐Fuller. (2012). Servant Firms in Drug Discovery: a Neglected Project Based Organizational Form. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Brady, Tim, Andrew Davies, & Paul Nightingale. (2012). Dealing with uncertainty in complex projects: revisiting Klein and Meckling. International Journal of Managing Projects in Business. 5(4). 718–736. 40 indexed citations
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Ràfols, Ismael, Michael M. Hopkins, Jarno Hoekman, et al.. (2012). Big Pharma, little science?. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 81. 22–38. 103 indexed citations
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Fagerberg, Jan, David C. Mowery, & Paul Nightingale. (2012). Introduction: The heterogeneity of innovation--evidence from the Community Innovation Surveys. Industrial and Corporate Change. 21(5). 1175–1180. 18 indexed citations
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Ràfols, Ismael, et al.. (2011). How journal rankings can suppress interdisciplinarity: the case of innovation studies and business and management. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 1 indexed citations
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Ràfols, Ismael, Loet Leydesdorff, Alice O’Hare, Paul Nightingale, & Andy Stirling. (2011). How journal rankings can suppress interdisciplinarity. The case of innovation studies in business and management. arXiv (Cornell University). 10 indexed citations
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Nightingale, Paul, et al.. (2009). Organizing for innovation: towards successful translational research. Trends in biotechnology. 27(10). 558–561. 14 indexed citations
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Tunzelmann, Nick von, et al.. (2008). Technological Paradigms: Past, Present and Future. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations
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Hopkins, Michael M., Dolores Ibarreta, Sibylle Gaisser, et al.. (2006). Putting pharmacogenetics into practice. Nature Biotechnology. 24(4). 403–410. 58 indexed citations
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Hopkins, Michael M. & Paul Nightingale. (2006). Strategic risk management using complementary assets: Organizational capabilities and the commercialization of human genetic testing in the UK. Research Policy. 35(3). 355–374. 24 indexed citations
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Nightingale, Paul & Paul Martin. (2004). The myth of the biotech revolution. Trends in biotechnology. 22(11). 564–569. 166 indexed citations
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Nightingale, Paul. (2000). The product–process–organisation relationship in complex development projects. Research Policy. 29(7-8). 913–930. 102 indexed citations

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