2020/11/10 by Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo +1
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Academic Publishing and Open Access #Degree (music) #Empirical research #Field (mathematics) #Internationalization #Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues #Production (economics) #Relation (database) #cs.DL #scientometrics and bibliometrics research
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.joi.2020.101101
published as Journal of Informetrics, 2021, 15(1), 101101
openalex publication_date 2020/11/10 · openalex created_date 2020/11/23 · arxiv created 2021/03/25 · arxiv updated 2021/03/26 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The growing complexity of scientific challenges demands increasingly intense research collaboration, both domestic and international. The resulting trend affects not only the modes of producing new knowledge, but also the way it is disseminated within scientific communities. This paper analyses the relationship between the "degree of internationalization" of a country's scientific production and that of the relevant citing publications. The empirical analysis is based on 2010-2012 Italian publications. Findings show: i) the probability of being cited increases with the degree of internationalization of the research team; ii) totally domestic research teams tend to cite to a greater extent totally domestic publications; iii) vice versa, publications resulting from international collaborations tend to be more cited by totally foreign publications rather than by publications including domestic authors. These results emerge both at overall and at discipline level. Findings might inform research policies geared towards internationalization.