International Collaboration in the Publication of Entomological Research

Abstract

International collaboration in the publication of entomological research was examined using authorship affiliations of the most recent 100 articles in 115 specialized journals; 56 of these journals are published in Europe, 31 in the United States. Researchers from 2 to 42 different countries were listed as authors in the 100 articles examined for each journal, and from 143 countries among all 11,500 articles examined. Approximately 46% of articles were single-authored; most of these dealt with taxonomic or faunistic topics. Multicountry addresses for authors (indicating international collaboration) were found for 9.6% (range 0–36% per journal) of articles examined. Most articles were published by researchers in the United States (2,943, or 25.6% of total), followed by Germany (860), Great Britain (820), Japan (775), and France (752). Countries that produced fewer articles (for example, <0.7% of total articles) generally had higher rates of international collaboration than those that produced more articles. Researchers in the United States collaborated less in entomology than they do in all sciences (biology, earth science, etc., combined) with researchers in Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Japan, Sweden, and Canada, but collaborated more with researchers from Argentina, Brazil, China, and Czechoslovakia.