Bridges over troubled water? Journals, geographers and economists in the field of economy and space 1980-2017

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ID4139947
AuthorsMiguel Atienza (0000-0003-3202-574X, Universidad Católica del Norte, corresponding author), Guillermo Armando Ronda-Pupo (0000-0002-9049-8249, Universidad Católica del Norte), Nicholas A Phelps (0000-0001-8407-9788, The University of Melbourne), Nicholas Phelps (The University of Melbourne)
Year2019
Volume51
Issue8
Pages1800-1823
Publication date2019-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0308518x19866213
OpenAlexW2964912819
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited59

This article analyses the evolution of the field of studies of space and economy (economic geography) between 1980 and 2017. Using a sample of 55 journals from the Web of Science, we study the existing subfields of research, the interaction between communities of geographers and economists and the changing role played by those journals that act as bridges for dialogue between these communities. For this purpose, we analyse the Bibliographic Coupling network of journals in four periods to identify groups of strongly interlinked journals that could represent research communities within the field of economic geography; and we also study the betweenness measure of centrality to identify those journals that have played the role of bridges between disciplines and estimate the level of interdisciplinarity of these journals. Results confirm the increasing complexity and fragmentation of the field of economy and space. We also find that there are spaces for dialogue and pluralism, but they are still peripheral to the core journals of academic communities related to space and economy both in geography and economics, and not yet strong enough to create a distinct academic community

Betweenness centrality · Bibliographic coupling · Centrality · Citation · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Epistemology · Geography · Political science · Regional science · Social science · Sociology · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Spatial and Panel Data Analysis

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