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The performance of Latin American research on economics & business

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  • Guillermo Armando Ronda-Pupo

    (Universidad Católica del Norte
    Universidad de Holguín)

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This paper aims to evaluate the citation-based performance of Latin American research on economics and business using scale-adjusted indicators. The results show that scale-invariant properties govern the Latin American research output in the Economics & Business discipline. Power law aptly describes the distribution of citation impacts with exponent $$\alpha \approx - 2.27 \pm 0.05$$α≈-2.27±0.05. Likewise, the Latin American citation impact and the size of the fields in the discipline of Economics & Business correlate according to a power law with scaling exponent $$\alpha \approx 1.13 \pm 0.07$$α≈1.13±0.07. The results suggest that to accurately evaluate the citation-based performance of this research field, the use of scale-invariant indicators is necessary. Furthermore, the results show the efficacy of scale-adjusted indicators when comparing research fields of vastly different sizes.

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  • Guillermo Armando Ronda-Pupo, 2020. "The performance of Latin American research on economics & business," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 122(1), pages 573-590, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:122:y:2020:i:1:d:10.1007_s11192-019-03300-y
    DOI: 10.1007/s11192-019-03300-y
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    Keywords

    Citation impact; Power-law; Relative impact; Scale-independent indicator; Scale-adjusted indicator; Self-similarity;
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    • M1 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration

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