The role of highly intercited papers on scientific impact: the Mexican case

Autor: Rodrigo Dorantes-Gilardi, Aurora A. Ramírez-Álvarez, Diana Terrazas-Santamaría
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Applied Network Science, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-20 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2364-8228
DOI: 10.1007/s41109-022-00497-5
Popis: Abstract The present paper explores the relationship between highly intercited papers in the k-max of citation networks and an author’s impact from the Mexican National System of Researchers (SNI). We investigate whether a more interconnected network, a higher k of the k-max, explains the variation of the total number of citations, controlling for personal characteristics such as SNI level, area of expertise, and the number of publications. We find that the k-max is positively and significantly correlated with impact. In this context, we find that the share of self and collaborator-citations increases with the magnitude of the k-max and women tend to have less interlinked cores of their citation networks than men (smaller k’s). Interestingly, we find that women tend to have a higher share of third-party citations while men tend to have a higher share of self and collaborator-citations, for all k’s and areas of expertise. We conduct a Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition to better understand the citation gender gap and find that much of it can be explained through the differences in observable characteristics (including the k-max) between women and men.
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