PUBLICATION RATES AND TRENDS IN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS FOR ASTRONOMERS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION

Abstract

ABSTRACT I surveyed two major astronomical journals for the thirty-year period 1960 to 1989 looking for papers with either principal or co-authors from developing countries, formerly communist Eastern European countries, and the former Soviet Union. The number of papers with authors from these areas has increased during the period surveyed, but the percentage of papers with such authors is less than 10% of the total number of papers over the period. The number of papers by collaborations between astronomers from developing countries and industrialized countries was found to be approximately the same as the number of papers by astronomers from developing countries only. Astronomers from Eastern European countries and the former Soviet Union, however, were found to either prefer or require collaborations with Western astronomers.