The impact of research collaboration on academic performance: An empirical analysis for some European countries

By Luigi Aldieri, M. Kotsemir, Concetto Paolo Vinci. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2017

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The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of internal and external research collaborations on the scientific performance of academic institutions. The data are derived from the international SCOPUS database. We consider both quantity (the number of publications) and quality indicators (the field-weighted citation impact and the share of publications in the 10% most-cited articles) to evaluate universities' performance in some European countries (Germany, France, Italy, the UK and Russia). To this end, we develop a non-overlapping generations model to evidence the theoretical idea of research externalities between academic institutions. Moreover, we implement an empirical model to determine the extent to which the impact of internal and external collaborations on universities' performance is sensitive to the geographical dimension of the data.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Statistics and Probability

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