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Likelihood of overseas access to international co-authorships

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This paper is proposing a new index for international scientific co-authorship, which is based on a simple model of domestic and international co-authorships. The index draws a modestly different picture of international collaboration, concerning a country"s size effect on the likelihood of internationally co-authored papers.

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  1. National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, Ministry of Education, Culture,Sports, Science and Technology, USA

    Hiroyuki Tomizawa

  2. Nagano Faculty of Arts, Shinshu University, 390-8621, Matsumoto, Asahi 3-1-1

    Masashi Shirabe

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Tomizawa, H., Shirabe, M. Likelihood of overseas access to international co-authorships. Scientometrics 53, 113–121 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014840121989

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