Does Collaboration in Finance Research in the 21st Century Produce Articles of Higher Impact?
29 Pages Posted: 7 Oct 2012 Last revised: 19 Oct 2012
Date Written: October 6, 2012
Abstract
We investigate the impact of collaborative research in academic Finance literature to find out whether and to what extent collaboration leads to higher impact articles (6667 articles across 2001-2007 extracted from the Web of Science). Using the top 5% as ranked by the four-year citation counts following publication, we also follow related secondary research questions such as the relationships between article impact and author impact; collaboration and average author impact of an article; and, the nature of geographic collaboration. Key findings indicate: collaboration does lead to articles of higher impact but there is no significant marginal value for collaboration beyond three authors; high impact articles are not monopolized by high impact authors; collaboration and the average author impact of high-impact articles are positively associated, where collaborative articles have a higher mean author impact in comparison to single author articles; and collaboration among the authors of high impact articles is mostly cross-institutional.
Note: As of 18 October 2012, a revised version of this paper has been accepted for publication in 'Scientometrics' under the title of "An empirical investigation of the influence of collaboration in Finance on article impact".
Keywords: Collaboration, Citation analysis, Article impact, Author impact, Finance
JEL Classification: G00, G30
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