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Mapping research collaborations in different countries and regions: 1980–2019

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Most previous studies on research collaboration focus on only one particular indicator or several specific countries. The intention of this work is to examine and compare research collaborations performances in the 41 most productive countries or regions. To this end, we use indicators stemming from authorship datasets from Web of Science an InCites from 1980 to 2019. Five collaboration indicators, with respect to both the size and heterogeneity of research collaboration, were systematically examined. Results showed diversified views of collaboration patterns in different countries or regions by using different collaboration indicators. In the end, we analyzed the correlations between different collaboration indicators and synthesized them by descending dimension method.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71974030) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China.

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    Zhigang Hu, Wencan Tian, Jiacheng Guo & Xianwen Wang

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    Zhigang Hu, Wencan Tian, Jiacheng Guo & Xianwen Wang

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Hu, Z., Tian, W., Guo, J. et al. Mapping research collaborations in different countries and regions: 1980–2019. Scientometrics 124, 729–745 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03484-8

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