Autores e coautores da nova economia institucional e da nova história econômica: cientometria com redes complexas

Abstract

We adopted some modern complex network tools applied to scientometrics to, in two essays, respectively: (i) detect which articles, books and speeches were the most influential in the literature of the New Institutional Economics (NIE) and the New Economic History (NHE) during the period from 1937 to 2018; and (ii) in the same period, identify which lines of research were most relevant in these two lines of economic thought, in the same period. In the first essay, we developed a ranking of these co-authorships and most cited authorships, using four metrics of complex network statistics: the weighted total degree (which is the sum of the weighted in degree and the weighted out-degree) and PageRankTM. In the second, the research lines were discovered based on two cluster search algorithms: modularity classes and the recent method of assortative cluster inference classes. The database for both essays was obtained from the selection of bibliographic references made by Gonçalo Fonseca, researcher responsible for the largest international website on the History of Economic Thought - The History of Economic Thought of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. The results classified, in descending order - arranged in complex networks and tables - which articles, authors and research fields (clusters) were most relevant in the literature in the mentioned period.