@article{{\"O}nderSchweitzerYilmazkuday2021,
  author    = {{\"O}nder, Ali Sina and Schweitzer, Sascha and Yilmazkuday, Hakan},
  title     = {Specialization, field distance, and quality in economists' collaborations},
  journal   = {Journal of informetrics},
  volume    = {15},
  number    = {4},
  issn      = {1751-1577},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.joi.2021.101222},
  institution = {ESB Business School},
  pages     = {101222},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {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.},
  language  = {en}
}