Opportunities to upgrade the scientific disciplines space

2022

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DOI 10.4067/s0718-88702022000200049
Data confidence 70 medium
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Abstract

Research resources in a given scientific domain may spill over into other close scientific disciplines, thereby improving performance.Using bibliometric data from the SCImago database drawn from a sample of 174 countries, we implement a measure of proximity-based on revealed comparative advantage (RCA) as a specialization or activity index.Our estimates show that proximity between disciplines positively and significantly related to the publication growth rate.