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Dr Alexander Krauss
a.krauss@lse.ac.uk
Science of science
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Metascience ● Development economics ●
Economics of science ● Philosophy of science
Academic positions
London School of
Economics, UK; 2015 – present
Research
Associate, 2019 – present
Marie
Curie Research Fellow, 2017 – 2019
Postdoctoral
Research Fellow, 2015 – 2017
Spanish National Research Council, Spain; 2022 – present
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Assistant Professor / Ramón y Cajal
researcher (tenure-track)
University of Barcelona,
Spain; Research Fellow, 2019 – 2022
University College London,
UK; Adjunct
Lecturer, 2015 – 2017
Books
Krauss,
Alexander. 2025. The Motor of Scientific Discovery. Forthcoming.
Krauss,
Alexander. 2024. Science of Science:
Understanding the Foundations and Limits of Science from an Interdisciplinary
Perspective. Oxford University Press, pp. 1-193.
Krauss,
Alexander. 2013. External influences
and the educational landscape: Analysis of political, economic, geographic,
health and demographic factors in Ghana. New York: Springer Press, pp. 1-143.
Articles – in science of science, and economics
of science
Krauss, Alexander. What
drives scientific discovery. Under review.
Krauss, Alexander. 2024. Debunking
revolutionary paradigm shifts: Evidence of cumulative scientific progress
across science. Proceedings
of the Royal Society A.
Krauss, Alexander. 2024. How nobel-prize breakthroughs in economics emerge and the
field’s influential empirical methods. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 221.
Krauss, Alexander. 2024. Redefining
the scientific method: as the use of sophisticated scientific methods that
extend our mind. PNAS Nexus, 3, 4.
Krauss,
Alexander. 2024. Science’s
greatest discoverers: a shift towards greater interdisciplinarity, top
universities and older age. Nature, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications,
11, 272.
Krauss, Alexander; Lluís Danús; Marta Sales-Pardo. 2023. Early-career factors largely determine the future impact of
prominent researchers: Evidence across eight scientific fields. Nature, Scientific Reports.
Danús, Lluís; Carles Muntaner; Alexander Krauss; Marta Sales-Pardo; Roger Guimerà. 2023. Differences
in collaboration structures and impact among prominent researchers in Europe
and North America.
EPJ Data Sci. 12, 12.
Krauss,
Alexander. 2023. Multi-studies: A Novel Approach to Addressing Irreplicability
in RCTs. In: A Medical Educator's Guide to Thinking
Critically about Randomised Controlled Trials:
Deconstructing the "Gold Standard" (ed. Margaret MacDougall).
Springer Press.
Krauss,
Alexander; Matteo Colombo. 2020. Explaining public
understanding of the concepts of climate change, nutrition, poverty and
effective medical drugs: An international experimental survey. PLOS One, 15(6).
Krauss,
Alexander. 2018. Why all randomised
controlled trials produce biased results. Annals of Medicine, 50, 4, pp.
312-322.
Articles – in economics, economic methodology,
and behavioural sciences
Krauss,
Alexander. 2016. Understanding child labour beyond the standard economic assumption of monetary
poverty. 41, 2, pp. 545-574, Cambridge
Journal of Economics, Oxford
University Press.
Krauss,
Alexander. 2016. How natural gas tariff
increases can influence poverty: Results, measurement constraints and bias. 60, pp. 244-254, Energy
Economics.
Krauss,
Alexander. 2015. The scientific limits
of understanding the (potential) relationship between complex social phenomena:
the case of democracy and inequality.
23, 1, pp. 97-109, Journal
of Economic Methodology.
Krauss,
Alexander; Carol Graham. 2013. Subjective wellbeing
in Colombia: Some insights on vulnerability, job security, and relative incomes. pp. 233-260, International Journal of Happiness and
Development.
Krauss,
Alexander. 2013. Understanding child labour beyond poverty: The structure of the economy, social
norms, and no returns to rural basic education. Washington: World Bank (earlier version of paper
published by Cambridge Journal of Economics).
Articles – in philosophy of science, history of
science, and cognitive science
Krauss,
Alexander. 2024. Science of science:
A multidisciplinary field studying science. Heliyon, 10, 17.
Krauss,
Alexander. 2023. Homo
methodologicus and the origin of science and civilisation.
Heliyon, 9, 10.
Peters, Uwe;
Alexander Krauss; Oliver Braganza. 2022. Generalization bias in science. Cognitive Science, 46: e13188.
Krauss,
Alexander. 2021. Assessing
the overall validity of randomised controlled trials. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science.
Hoefer, Carl;
Alexander Krauss. 2021. Measures of effectiveness in medical research:
Reporting both absolute and relative measures. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 88.
Book chapters
Krauss,
Alexander. 2014. Fundamentals. in: East Asia Pacific At
Work: Employment, Enterprise, and Well-being. Washington: World Bank; World Development Report on Jobs.
Chapter 4, pp. 65-94.
World Bank –
5 years
Conducted research in economics and
behavioural sciences, in particular quantitative and
qualitative evaluations of the causal effects of public policies and reforms
(on health, poverty reduction, education, labour,
energy topics etc.) for countries across the world – with the research used to
inform the design of government policies and improve their effectiveness;
conducted a range of other data analyses and analytical work on inequality,
distribution and ethical topics; conducted workshops on ‘Monitoring and evaluation of public policies using experimental data’
for academics and government officials; and prepared dozens of government
policy reports (including their design, data analysis and write-up) to inform
public policy decisions on a range of topics – e.g. skills in Cambodia,
education in Ghana,
female empowerment in Latin America
and employment in the Republic of Congo
Teaching
Foundations of Philosophy of Science (University of
Barcelona)
Applied Development
Economics, Interdisciplinarity and Methodology (UCL)
Development Economics and Policy (UCL)
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