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The growth of international collaboration in East European scholarly communities: a bibliometric analysis of journal articles published between 1989 and 2009

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In the last two decades international collaboration in the Eastern European academic communities has strongly intensified. Scientists from developed countries within the European Union play a key role in stimulating the international collaboration of academics in this region. In addition, many of the research projects that engage East-European scholars are only possible in the framework of the large European programmes. The present study focuses on the role of EU and other developed nations as a partner of these countries and the analysis of the performance of collaborative research as reflected by the citation impact of internationally co-authored publications.

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  1. Emory University, 201 Dowman Drive, Suite 313, Atlanta, GA, 30032, USA

    Daniel Teodorescu

  2. Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania

    Tudorel Andrei

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Table 4 Top 10 collaborators for scholars in East-European Nations: 1989 and 2009
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Table 5 The share of East-European papers with co-authors from Germany, France, and England
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Table 6 Share of EE papers co-authored internationally, 1989–2009
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Teodorescu, D., Andrei, T. The growth of international collaboration in East European scholarly communities: a bibliometric analysis of journal articles published between 1989 and 2009. Scientometrics 89, 711–722 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0466-y

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