About the Authors

Jian Wang

jian.wang@kuleuven.be

Affiliation Center for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM) and Department of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Bart Thijs

Affiliation Center for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM) and Department of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Wolfgang Glänzel

Affiliation Center for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM) and Department of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JW BT WG. Analyzed the data: JW. Wrote the paper: JW.