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20202026
most citedThe Science of Startups: The Impact of Founder Personalities on Company Success

34 citations · 43 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

physics.soc-ph2026

Shifting Social Dispositions, Stable Prosocial Traits: A Global Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Human Personality

Paul X. McCarthy, Xian Gong, John A. Johnson +3

Generational stereotypes are widespread, but they often rely on anecdotes, and it remains challenging to disentangle true birth-cohort differences from the universal effects of age…

econ.GN2025

The economics of global personality diversity

Paul X. McCarthy, Xian Gong, Marieth Coetzer +5

Understanding why national economic performance differs remains a central question in economics. Although institutions and demographic diversity are established correlates of econo…

econ.GN2023

Informing Innovation Management: Linking Leading R&D Firms and Emerging Technologies

Xian Gong, Claire McFarland, Paul McCarthy +2

Understanding the relationship between emerging technology and research and development has long been of interest to companies, policy makers and researchers. In this paper new sou…

econ.GN2023★ 34 cited

The Science of Startups: The Impact of Founder Personalities on Company Success

Paul X. McCarthy, Xian Gong, Fabian Stephany +3

Startup companies solve many of today's most complex and challenging scientific, technical and social problems, such as the decarbonisation of the economy, air pollution, and the d…

cs.CY2020★ 9 cited

Evolution of diversity and dominance of companies in online activity

Paul X. McCarthy, Xian Gong, Sina Eghbal +2

Ever since the web began, the number of websites has been growing exponentially. These websites cover an ever-increasing range of online services that fill a variety of social and…