Publishing patterns of Polish authors in domestic and foreign economic journals

This study develops a multilevel model of academic performance for Polish economists and investigates several factors correlated with individual publishing outcome. The data used are based on articles in the domain of economics published between 1999 and 2012 in five leading Polish journals and in foreign journals listed in Scopus and in Web of Science. The study argues that scientific collaboration (demonstrated by co-authorship) is more frequent in foreign journals than in Polish ones. Authors who choose collaborative publishing strategy tend to collaborate in case of Polish journals with the same coauthors as in case of foreign journals. The type of collaboration also matters. For publishing in foreign journals, both foreign cooperation and in-house collaboration create an advantage. Research potential of an university department turns out to matter more for publishing in Polish than foreign journals.