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

IF 4.6 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE Publications Pub Date : 2023-09-26 DOI:10.3390/publications11040046

Claudia N. Gonzalez Brambila, José I. Ponce, Silvia B. Gonzalez Brambila, Matias F. Milia

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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.

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确定获得最显著影响的论文的特征:深入研究墨西哥工程出版物

工程师制造东西，让东西工作，让东西工作得更好、更容易。这种知识对创新至关重要，工程师开发的许多显性知识都体现在科学出版物中。本文分析了中等收入国家(如墨西哥)工程领域出版物和引文的演变。利用2004年至2017年Web of Science中所有墨西哥出版物的数据库，我们探索了具有最大影响力的出版物的特征;这是最高的引用数。研究的变量包括合作类型(无合作、国内合作、双边合作或多边合作)、合作作者的数量和国家(控制了一位来自美国的合作作者)，以及墨西哥作者的隶属机构。我们的研究结果强调了国际合作的总体重要性，并表明引用次数最多的出版物是那些跨国合作(来自三个或更多国家的合著者)，其中一位合著者来自美国。另一个有趣的结果是，单独撰写的论文比国内合作撰写的论文具有更高的影响力。

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