Abstract
International collaboration is one of the effective ways to enhance the impact of scientific research papers. In this research, international research collaboration papers published by world-class universities in the field of humanities and social sciences from 2015 to 2019 were selected as the research object, and the effective enhancement of the impact of international research collaboration papers was found to not be dependent on expanding the scale of international research collaboration, but rather on selecting researchers with different international backgrounds and from high-level institutions for collaboration. It was also discovered that, in the field of humanities and social sciences, despite a relatively low proportion of international research collaboration papers being led by Chinese scholars, the Chinese research is characterized by a higher impact compared with the research led by non-Chinese scholars. In light of this, a series of proactive measures should be taken by China’s world-class universities, such as actively participating in and initiating international collaboration, selecting high-level research collaborators, and attracting scholars from different countries to engage in research collaboration in the field of humanities and social sciences.
Highlights
Scientific research collaboration is one of the effective ways to enhance the innovation and impact of scientific research (Katz and Martin 1997), and high-level researchers often boast of an extensive network of international partnerships (Abramo et al 2011a).According to the “Report on the Status of China’s International collaboration in Science and Technology” released by the National Center for Science and Technology Evaluation (NCSTE) in 2017, China has reached the third place in the world in terms of the scale of its international collaboration papers, with collaborators distributed in 188 countries and regions, basically covering entire the global academic network
International scientific research collaboration in the humanities and social sciences will contribute to the better participation of countries in the world in global governance and the promotion of international cultural exchanges
The key to enhance the impact of international research collaboration papers lies not in the scale of international collaboration, but in whether high-quality collaborators are selected
Summary
Scientific research collaboration is one of the effective ways to enhance the innovation and impact of scientific research (Katz and Martin 1997), and high-level researchers often boast of an extensive network of international partnerships (Abramo et al 2011a). In the process of China’s higher education shifting from scale expansion to qualitative development, the scale of international collaboration papers has risen sharply, requiring researchers to show solicitude for the quality of international scientific research collaboration, explore the factors that enhance the impact of international scientific research collaboration, and provide references for China to build world-class universities and promote an innovation-driven development strategy. Based on the importance of humanities and social science in international exchanges and collaboration, analysis was carried out on the international scientific research collaboration papers of 42 world-class universities in. With the purpose of exploring the factors that enhance the impact of international scientific research collaboration papers, and providing a reference for Chinese universities to seek better international research collaborators and carry out higher-level international research collaboration in the field of humanities and social sciences
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