Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/145142 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 10008
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We explore the relationship between collaborations in writing papers and the academic productivity of economists and, particularly, we describe the magnitude and intensity of co-authorship among economists. To that end, we employ interaction maps from Complex Systems methods to study the global properties of specific networks. We use 8,253 JCR papers from ISI-WOK, published by 5,188 economists from Spanish institutions, and their co-authors, up to 8,202 researchers, from 2002 to 2014, to identify and determine the collaborative structure of economics research in Spain, with its primary communities and figures of influence. Our results indicate that centrality and productivity are correlated, particularly with respect to a local estimator of centrality (page rank), and we provide certain recommendations, such as promoting interactions among highly productive authors who have few co-authors with other researchers in their environment, or recommending that authors who may be well-positioned but minimally productive strive to improve their productivity.
Subjects: 
co-authorship
academic productivity
economists
interaction maps
complex networks
JEL: 
A11
C45
C63
D85
I23
Y91
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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