Authorship Patterns and Collaborative Research in Economics

Abstract

The present study identifies the pattern of authorship and the collaboration in the field of Economics. Discusses the types of collaboration and describes measures of collaboration. The study gives the actual impact of collaboration intensity on the performance of scientific productivity in terms of Collaborative Index (which comes out to be 2.06), Degree of Collaboration (0.58), and Collaboration Co-efficient (0.30). The paper concludes that the results are of significance for the policy makers in Economics research.