TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Önder, Ali Sina
A1  - Schweitzer, Sascha
A1  - Yilmazkuday, Hakan
T1  - Specialization, field distance, and quality in economists’ collaborations
JF  - Journal of informetrics
N2  - We analyze economics PhDs’ collaborations in peer-reviewed journals from 1990 to 2014 and investigate such collaborations’ quality in relation to each co-author’s research quality, field and specialization. We find that a greater overlap between co-authors’ previous research fields is significantly related to a greater publication success of co-authors’ joint work and this is robust to alternative specifications. Co-authors that engage in a distant collaboration are significantly more likely to have a large research overlap, but this significance is lost when co-authors’ social networks are accounted for. High quality collaboration is more likely to emerge as a result of an interaction between specialists and generalists with overlapping fields of expertise. Regarding interactions across subfields of economics (interdisciplinarity), it is more likely conducted by co- authors who already have interdisciplinary portfolios, than by co-authors who are specialized or starred in different subfields.
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 1751-1577
SS  - 1751-1577
SN  - 1875-5879
SS  - 1875-5879
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2021.101222
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2021.101222
VL  - 15
IS  - 4
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -