Specialization, field distance, and quality in economists’ collaborations
- 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.
Author of HS Reutlingen | Schweitzer, Sascha |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2021.101222 |
ISSN: | 1751-1577 |
ISSN: | 1875-5879 |
Erschienen in: | Journal of informetrics |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Place of publication: | Amsterdam |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
Publication year: | 2021 |
Volume: | 15 |
Issue: | 4 |
Article Number: | 101222 |
DDC classes: | 004 Informatik |
Open access?: | Nein |