Joining the European Union as an advantage in science performativity. A quasi-experimental study

Giulio Marini
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Giulio Marini: Quantitative Social Science, UCL Social Research Institute, London, UK

No 21-09, DoQSS Working Papers from Quantitative Social Science - UCL Social Research Institute, University College London

Abstract: The paper investigates the issue of increasing international co-authored publications, comparing countries that accessed the Europe-an Union (EU) in 2004 (EU04) against other Central-Eastern European Countries (othEast-ERA), adopting a scientometrical approach. This comparison is interesting to check whether to be part of the EU is dif-ferent from being part of the European Research Area (ERA) – being both entities aimed at fostering more international collaborations. The hypothesis is that EU might convey more opportunities for the sake of international publications, although ERA assures access to European funding schemes anyway. Analysing the census of internationally co-authored publications from 1995 to 2015, difference-in-differences regressions show that Countries that joined EU in 2004 performed better than other Central-Eastern ones. Implications for the public policies in science are discussed.

Keywords: Scientometric; European Research Area, European Union, Funding Agency, Central Eastern Europe, international collaborations; difference-in-difference (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C55 C81 I23 O32 O35 O36 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-04-01
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