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The role of academic collaboration in the impact of Latin-American research on management

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The aim of this paper is to determine the role that academic collaboration plays on the impact of Latin-American and the Caribbean research on management as an academic research discipline. The results show that the impact of Latin American articles on management, which were published between 1990 and 2010 in JCR journals is positively associated to collaboration r s  = .133, p = .001. Collaborated articles have on average 1.22 times more impact than single authored ones. The level of collaboration is positively correlated to impact r s  = .337, p = .001. Articles published through international collaboration have 1.59 times more impact than those published through domestic collaboration.

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The authors thank the Editor-in-Chief, Professor Wolfgang Glänzel, and three anonymous reviewers for their intuitive and insightful comments. We express our gratitude to Professors Olivier Furrer, Dries Faems and Sylvan Katz, for their constructive comments on a previous draft. We thank Professor Trevor Driscoll for editing the manuscript concerning language and writing.

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Ronda-Pupo, G.A., Díaz-Contreras, C., Ronda-Velázquez, G. et al. The role of academic collaboration in the impact of Latin-American research on management. Scientometrics 102, 1435–1454 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-014-1486-1

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