The performance of Latin American research on economics & business

Guillermo Armando Ronda-Pupo ()
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Guillermo Armando Ronda-Pupo: Universidad Católica del Norte

Scientometrics, 2020, vol. 122, issue 1, No 26, 573-590

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Keywords: Citation impact; Power-law; Relative impact; Scale-independent indicator; Scale-adjusted indicator; Self-similarity; 00; 62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-019-03300-y

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