The tale of two research communities: The diffusion of research on productive efficiency

The tale of two research communities: The diffusion of research on productive efficiency

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Article ID: iaor2006637
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 98
Issue: 1
Start Page Number: 17
End Page Number: 40
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Journal: International Journal of Production Economics
Authors: ,
Keywords: history
Abstract:

The field of theoretical and applied efficiency analysis is pursued both by economists and people from operational research and management science. Each group tends to cite a different paper as the seminal one. Recent availability of extensive electronically accessible databases of journal articles makes studies of the diffusion of papers through citations possible. Research strands inspired by the seminal paper within economics are identified and followed by citation analysis during the 20-year period before the operations research paper was published. The first decade of the operations research paper is studied in a similar way and emerging differences in diffusion patterns are pointed out. Main factors influencing citations apart from the quality of the research contribution are reputation of journal, reputation of author, number of close followers; colleagues, “cadres of protégés”, Ph.D students, and extent of network (“invisible college”). Such factors are revealed by the citing papers. In spite of increasing cross contacts between economics and operations research the last decades co-citation analysis reveals a relative constant tendency to stick to “own camp” references.

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