User:Gsage22/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Economics of science

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose it as it is an article that relates to my majors of Data Analytics/Business Economics and thought it would be interesting.

Evaluate the article
The lead section does its job in providing a concise overview of the economics of science. It states how the economics of science aims to understand the impact of science and the advance of technology to explain the behavior of scientists and to understand the efficiency or inefficiency of scientific institutions and markets. With links to Wikipedia pages of science and technology, I believe it does a good job in providing a baseline but it could do better in giving a brief overview of the main sections. The content is relevant to the topic, but some issues with the content might be is that it is not very updated with the latest reference being from 2008. As well as there not being that much substance to the page with only two main sections and only one of them breaking into two more sub-sections. The article has a good neutral tone and doesn't have really any controversial claims, which is good. They use a good amount of references for the amount there is within the article and they seem to be good scholarly sources for the most part. The two images showing the graphical representation of the effect of patents and tax incentives on the production of scientific knowledge are good and well captioned. Overall this is a decent article, that some strong baselines, just would need a little more information to put it over the top.