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Research Networks and Publications in Economics: Evidence from a Small Developing Country

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This article addresses the relationship between international research collaboration and the performance of researchers through the focus on a specific discipline, Economics, in a small developing country, Uruguay. We map the collaboration between Uruguayan economists and non-local researchers and analyze the correlation between these collaborations and scholars’ achievements, as reflected by the quality of the publications included in Scopus-Elsevier. Our results confirm the positive and significant association between research collaboration and research output. Findings suggest that researchers involved in international collaborations get a higher impact or quality of their research, but this result only holds when international collaborations involve researchers located in northern countries.

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  1. At that time, online bibliographical repositories were unusual, so existing research from Uruguayan economists was scattered in different libraries. This database was conceived to solve that problem. It mainly contains working papers and technical documents (see Amarante et al., 2021).

  2. https://foco.timbo.org.uy/home

  3. SJR and SNIP were downloaded from Scimago database available in https://www.scimagojr.com. CiteScore ranking is available in Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/sources.

  4. The SJR addresses the problem of comparisons between disciplines, whereas the extended impact factor does not take into account that different research fields have different citations rates, with lower citations in Engineering, Social Sciences, and Humanities (Guerrero-Bote & Moya-Anegón, 2012).

  5. See https://www.dimensions.ai/.

  6. This information was collected in April 2021 from CitEc: http://citec.repec.org/p/index.html. For authors that did not have a profile in REPEC, we consider the H index as zero.

  7. These authors also report, considering all disciplines, very little inter-citation between Latin American scientists: regional researchers were not aware of or chose not to cite papers from neighboring countries.

  8. Articles published during 2021 are not included in the figures, as we do not have the complete year.

  9. We tested a Poisson model also, but the negative binomial fits better owing to overdispersion.

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Table 4 Distribution of articles published in ranked or non-ranked journals
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Table 5 OLS regression
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Table 7 Dependent variable: number of citations
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Amarante, V., Bucheli, M. & Rodriguez, M. Research Networks and Publications in Economics: Evidence from a Small Developing Country. J Knowl Econ 15, 5571–5598 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-023-01282-0

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