Trends in Economic Research: An International Perspective

前几日无意中看到来自IZA（2010年发表于《Kyklos》）的这篇文章，随便看看还有点意思，在这里给大家介绍一下。IZA的Working Paper版本附在后面，发表版本链接如下：

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-6435.2010.00484.x/abstract;jsessionid=AC98631B8802513479602E62EA8574BD.d03t01

这篇论文分析了从1991到2006年间发表在Econlit和SSCI上的论文，比较了世界各主要国家经济学论文的发表情况。分析表明，欧洲发表的论文在数量上已经逐渐赶上美国，但是在顶级期刊上，差距仍然很大。尤其令人注意的是，合作研究越来越重要，特别是对于发表顶级期刊而言。但日本比较特例，在2002-2006年间，日本仍然有一半的论文是独著。

论文摘要：

Given the recent efforts in several countries to reorganize the research institutional setting to improve research productivity, our analysis addresses the following questions: To which extenthas the recent awareness over international quality standards in economics around the world been reflected in research performance? How have individual countries fared? Do research quantity and quality indicators tell us the same story? We concentrate on trends taking place since the beginning of the 1990s and rely ona very comprehensive database of scientific journals, to provide across-country comparison of the evolution of research in economics. Ourfindings indicate that Europe is catching up with the USA but, in terms of influential research, the USA maintains adominant position. The main continental European countries, Germany, France,Italy and Spain,experienced some of the largest growth rates in economic scientific output.Other European countries, namely the UK,Norway, the Netherlands, Denmark,and Sweden,have shown remarkable progress in per capita output. Collaborative researchseems to be a key factor explaining the relative success of some European countries, in particular when it comes to publishing in top journals, attained predominantly through international collaborations.