Gonzalez Brambila, C.N.; Ponce, J.I.; Gonzalez Brambila, S.B.; Milia, M.F. Determining the Characteristics of Papers That Garner the Most Significant Impact: A Deep Dive into Mexican Engineering Publications. Publications2023, 11, 46.
Gonzalez Brambila, C.N.; Ponce, J.I.; Gonzalez Brambila, S.B.; Milia, M.F. Determining the Characteristics of Papers That Garner the Most Significant Impact: A Deep Dive into Mexican Engineering Publications. Publications 2023, 11, 46.
Gonzalez Brambila, C.N.; Ponce, J.I.; Gonzalez Brambila, S.B.; Milia, M.F. Determining the Characteristics of Papers That Garner the Most Significant Impact: A Deep Dive into Mexican Engineering Publications. Publications2023, 11, 46.
Gonzalez Brambila, C.N.; Ponce, J.I.; Gonzalez Brambila, S.B.; Milia, M.F. Determining the Characteristics of Papers That Garner the Most Significant Impact: A Deep Dive into Mexican Engineering Publications. Publications 2023, 11, 46.
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, the language of the article, 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), written in English, and when one of the coauthors is from the USA.
Keywords
Research impact; engineering; Mexico; article citation analysis
Subject
Engineering, Other
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