Determining the Characteristics of Papers That Garner the Most Significant Impact: A Deep Dive into Mexican Engineering Publications

Claudia N. Gonzalez Brambila (), José I. Ponce, Silvia B. Gonzalez Brambila and Matias F. Milia
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Claudia N. Gonzalez Brambila: Department of Business Administration, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México—ITAM, Mexico City 1080, Mexico
José I. Ponce: Department of Business Administration, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México—ITAM, Mexico City 1080, Mexico
Silvia B. Gonzalez Brambila: Department of Systems, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco—UAM-A, Mexico City 02200, Mexico
Matias F. Milia: Department of Business Administration, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México—ITAM, Mexico City 1080, Mexico

Publications, 2023, vol. 11, issue 4, 1-14

Abstract: Engineers make things, make things work, and make things work better and easier. This kind of knowledge is crucial for innovation, and much of the explicit knowledge developed by engineers is embodied in scientific publications. In this paper, we analyze the evolution of publications and citations in engineering in a middle-income country such as Mexico. Using a database of all Mexican publications in Web of Science from 2004 to 2017, we explore the characteristics of publications that tend to have the greatest impact; this is the highest number of citations. Among the variables studied are the type of collaboration (no collaboration, domestic, bilateral, or multilateral), the number of coauthors and countries, controlling for a coauthor from the USA, and the affiliation institution of the Mexican author(s). Our results emphasize the overall importance of joint international efforts and suggest that publications with the highest number of citations are those with multinational collaboration (coauthors from three or more countries) and when one of the coauthors is from the USA. Another interesting result is that single-authored papers have had a higher impact than those written through domestic collaboration.

Keywords: research impact; engineering; Mexico; article citation analysis; collaboration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A2 D83 L82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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