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Specialization, Field Distance, and Quality in Economists' Collaborations

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  • Ali Sina Önder

    (Department of Economics and Finance, University of Portsmouth)

  • Sascha Schweitzer

    (Department of Management, University of Bayreuth)

  • Hakan Yilmazkuday

    (Department of Economics, Florida International University)

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.

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  • Ali Sina Önder & Sascha Schweitzer & Hakan Yilmazkuday, 2021. "Specialization, Field Distance, and Quality in Economists' Collaborations," Working Papers 2124, Florida International University, Department of Economics.
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    1. Lin, Kexin & Hu, Beibei & Li, Zixun & Bu, Yi & Dong, Xianlei, 2025. "Knowledge substitutability and complementarity in scientific collaboration," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 19(1).
    2. Sampagnaro, Gabriele, 2024. "The disciplinarity of finance journals," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 93(PB), pages 374-388.
    3. Camilo Garcia-Jimeno & Sahar Parsa, 2024. "Cultural Change Through Writing Style: Gendered Pronoun Use in the Economics Profession," Working Paper Series WP 2024-23, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

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    • A11 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Role of Economics; Role of Economists
    • A14 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Sociology of Economics
    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions

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