  The growing complexity of scientific challenges demands increasingly intense
research collaboration, both domestic and international. The resulting trend
affects not only the modes of producing new knowledge, but also the way it is
disseminated within scientific communities. This paper analyses the
relationship between the "degree of internationalization" of a country's
scientific production and that of the relevant citing publications. The
empirical analysis is based on 2010-2012 Italian publications. Findings show:
i) the probability of being cited increases with the degree of
internationalization of the research team; ii) totally domestic research teams
tend to cite to a greater extent totally domestic publications; iii) vice
versa, publications resulting from international collaborations tend to be more
cited by totally foreign publications rather than by publications including
domestic authors. These results emerge both at overall and at discipline level.
Findings might inform research policies geared towards internationalization.
