There is increasing interest among policymakers in small open economies in the use of star-scientist recruitment policies to catalyse the development of local clusters in targeted research areas. We use Scopus to assemble a dataset on over 1.4 million publications and subsequent citations for Denmark, Ireland and New Zealand from 1990 to 2017. An event-study model is used to estimate the dynamic effects of a star arrival on quality-adjusted research output at both the department and matched individual incumbent levels. Star arrivals are associated with statistically significant increases in department output (excluding the output of the star) of between 12% and 25% after 4 years. At the incumbent level, star arrivals lead to an approximately 5% increase in individual output, with substantially larger increases for incumbents who co-author with the star.

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明星作为催化剂：在小型开放经济体中明星科学家招聘对当地研究绩效影响的事件研究分析

小型开放经济体的政策制定者越来越关注使用明星科学家招聘政策来促进目标研究领域的地方集群的发展。我们使用 Scopus 收集了 1990 年至 2017 年间丹麦、爱尔兰和新西兰超过 140 万份出版物和后续引用的数据集。使用事件研究模型来估计明星到达对质量调整后研究产出的动态影响该部门和相应的个人在职级别。4 年后，明星的到来与部门产出（不包括明星的产出）在统计上显着增加 12% 到 25% 相关。在现有水平上，明星的到来导致个人产出增加约 5%，