The strength of strong ties: How co-authorship affect productivity of academic economists?

Scientometrics

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 673-699

  Cainelli, Giulio ^a   Maggioni, Mario A ^b   Uberti, T Erika ^b   De Felice, Annunziata ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Co authorship; Italian economists; Scientific productivity; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84935138637     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-014-1421-5     Document Type: Article

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