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Wesley M. Cohen

Wesley M. Cohen

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
33
Citations
96763
World Ranking
6981
National Ranking
3391

Wesley M. Cohen publications per year

1983: 1 publications 1984: 0 publications 1985: 1 publications 1986: 0 publications 1987: 2 publications 1988: 0 publications 1989: 4 publications 1990: 2 publications 1991: 0 publications 1992: 1 publications 1993: 0 publications 1994: 1 publications 1995: 0 publications 1996: 2 publications 1997: 1 publications 1998: 1 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 5 publications 2001: 2 publications 2002: 3 publications 2003: 5 publications 2004: 1 publications 2005: 2 publications 2006: 1 publications 2007: 3 publications 2008: 2 publications 2009: 0 publications 2010: 2 publications 2011: 1 publications 2012: 0 publications 2013: 1 publications 2014: 2 publications 2015: 3 publications 2016: 4 publications 2017: 0 publications 2018: 2 publications 2019: 3 publications 2020: 1 publications 2021: 0 publications 2022: 5 publications 2023: 1 publications 2024: 2 publications 2025: 5 publications
1983 2025

72 publications in total across all disciplines

Wesley M. Cohen publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wesley M. Cohen sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 61 publications — 1st percentile

1% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Wesley M. Cohen D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wesley M. Cohen sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Wesley M. Cohen is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within economics, business, and management, with a focus on the intersection of innovation, intellectual property, and firm dynamics.

The primary fields of study for this scientist include Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Business, Management and Accounting. Key subfields explored are Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Strategy and Management, and Finance.

The main research topics covered by their work are Intellectual Property and Patents, scientometrics and bibliometrics research, Firm Innovation and Growth, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Economic Growth and Productivity, Innovation Policy and R&D, and Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences.

Wesley M. Cohen has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Management Science
  • Research Policy
  • Strategic Management Journal

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • Not in the Job Description: The Commercial Activities of Academic Scientists and Engineers (2020, Management Science)
  • Invention Value, Inventive Capability and the Large Firm Advantage (2022, Academy of Management Proceedings)
  • Invention value, inventive capability and the large firm advantage (2022, Research Policy)
  • Invention Value, Inventive Capability and the Large Firm Advantage (2022, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • The Commercial Potential of Science and Its Realization: Evidence From a Measure Using a Large Language Model (2023, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wesley M. Cohen include:

  • Ashish Arora
  • Honggi Lee
  • Divya Sebastian
  • Roger Masclans
  • Sharique Hasan

Best Publications

  • ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON LEARNING AND INNOVATION

    Wesley M. Cohen;Daniel A. Levinthal

  • Innovation and Learning: The Two Faces of R & D

    Wesley M. Cohen;Daniel A. Levinthal

  • Protecting Their Intellectual Assets: Appropriability Conditions and Why U.S. Manufacturing Firms Patent (or Not)

    Wesley M. Cohen;Richard R. Nelson;John P. Walsh

  • Links and Impacts: The Influence of Public Research on Industrial R&D

    Wesley M. Cohen;Richard R. Nelson;John P. Walsh

  • Empirical studies of innovation and market structure

    Richard Charles Levin;Wesley Marc Cohen

  • Firm Size and R&D Intensity: A Re-Examination

    Wesley M Cohen;Richard C Levin;David C Mowery

  • A Reprise of Size and R & D

    Wesley Marc Cohen;Steven Klepper

  • Firm Size and the Nature of Innovation within Industries: The Case of Process and Product R&D

    Wesley Marc Cohen;Steven Klepper

  • Fortune favors the prepared firm

    Wesley M. Cohen;Daniel A. Levinthal

  • R&D spillovers, patents and the incentives to innovate in Japan and the United States

    Wesley M Cohen;Akira Goto;Akiya Nagata;Richard R Nelson

  • R&D Appropriability, Opportunity, and Market Structure: New Evidence on Some Schumpeterian Hypotheses

    Richard C Levin;Wesley M Cohen;David C Mowery

  • Fifty Years of Empirical Studies of Innovative Activity and Performance

    Wesley M. Cohen

  • R&D and the patent premium ☆

    Ashish Arora;Marco Ceccagnoli;Wesley M. Cohen

  • Chapter 18 Empirical studies of innovation and market structure

    Wesley M. Cohen;Richard C. Levin

  • What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation

    Henry Sauermann;Wesley M. Cohen

  • The Anatomy of Industry R&D Intensity Distributions

    Wesley M. Cohen;Steven Klepper

  • The nature, sources, and consequences of firm differences in the early history of the semiconductor industry

    Daniel Holbrook;Wesley M. Cohen;David A. Hounshell;Steven Klepper

  • The tradeoff between firm size and diversity in the pursuit of technological progress

    Wesley M. Cohen;Steven Klepper

  • Lens or Prism? Patent Citations as a Measure of Knowledge Flows from Public Research

    Michael Roach;Wesley M. Cohen

  • Where excludability matters: Material versus intellectual property in academic biomedical research

    John P. Walsh;Wesley M. Cohen;Charlene Cho

  • Patents in the knowledge-based economy

    Wesley Marc Cohen;Stephen A. Merrill

Frequent Co-Authors

John P. Walsh
John P. Walsh Georgia Institute of Technology
Ashish Arora
Ashish Arora Duke University
Richard R. Nelson
Richard R. Nelson Columbia University
Paula E. Stephan
Paula E. Stephan Georgia State University
Daniel A. Levinthal
Daniel A. Levinthal University of Pennsylvania
Steven Klepper
Steven Klepper Carnegie Mellon University
David C. Mowery
David C. Mowery University of California, Berkeley
Franco Malerba
Franco Malerba Bocconi University
Sidney G. Winter
Sidney G. Winter University of Pennsylvania
Rajshree Agarwal
Rajshree Agarwal University of Maryland, College Park

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