International Co-authorship Research Articles

Bibliometric analysis on international cooperation of rehabilitation robots in China from 2000 to 2019

Rapid development is undergoing in the field of rehabilitation robots, and more countries (regions) are participating in international cooperation and becoming academic contributors. Here in this study, the bibliometric method is used to determine the dynamics and developments of international cooperation in China. The publication data are indexed in Web of Science with search term of rehabilitation robot from 2000 to 2019. Compared with other countries (regions), publication with international co-authors and institutes participating in international cooperation are studied by assessment of indicators such as the cooperation degree, cooperation frequency, and the frequency of citations. The results show that in the past two decades, international scientific cooperation has shown a positive tendency in China, and participating in international collaboration could improve China's impact on the global rehabilitation robot. The United States, England and Japan are the top three countries in number of cooperation with China. Our findings provide valuable information for researchers to better understand China's international scientific collaboration in rehabilitation robot.

Research by academic librarians at public universities in Ghana: A realistic expectation?

This study explores how the academic environment facilitates the ability of academic librarians at public universities in Ghana to fulfil their research and publication mandate. A web survey of academic librarians was conducted to explore the opportunities and resources for research. Based on a bibliometric analysis of journal articles, the study also investigated the nature of research production of academic librarians in Ghana, specifically their co-authorship patterns, publication outlets and research visibility. The results show that academic librarians mainly produce single-authored articles and articles that are co-authored within their home institution, with a preference for publishing in local journals. Their research visibility, operationalised as time-based citation scores derived from data in Google Scholar, is also limited in light of a lack of international co-authorship. Opportunities and resources for project participation, funding, conference participation and publishing are all mostly linked to having completed a research qualification. The results further suggest that, for some librarians, it seems indeed possible to engage in research despite the odds.

Between fragmentation and institutionalisation: the rise of migration studies as a research field

It is clear that the field of migration studies has grown significantly over the past decades. What is less known is how this growth has taken place. This article combines bibliometric metadata with expert interviews to analyse the institutionalisation of the field in terms of self-referentiality, internationalisation, and epistemic communities. Self-referentiality in migration studies has gradually increased as the field has grown, until recently. The field has internationalised in terms of international co-authorships but has done so unevenly. Finally, we find that epistemic communities in migration studies, based largely on disciplines, increasingly refer to one another and are increasingly interdisciplinary.

Russian Scholarly Papers in Open-Access Megajournals

The quantity, research topics, and growth rates are assessed for Russian scholarly papers published in open-access megajournals. Russian papers published in PLoS ONE in 2006–2019 are analyzed on the basis of international scientometric indicators. The results are reported of the international coauthorship survey of Russian researchers to define its impact on citation indices. Affiliations are presented for authors with papers in megajournals. Funding of publication charges is discussed for Russian researchers who publish papers in open-access journals.

Participation of ‘international national organisations’ in Africa’s research: a bibliometric study of agriculture and health in Zimbabwe

The study investigated the participation of so-called ‘international national organisations’ (INOs) in agricultural and health research in Zimbabwe, a country in southern Africa. An INO refers to an international organisation or an initiative of an international organisation that uses an African country address in its publications. A first objective was to develop a classification of authorship types that accommodates the phenomenon of INOs as a form of international participation next to international co-authorship. A second objective was to apply the framework to the research output of Zimbabwe in the period 1980–2016, to determine whether changes in authorship types, and also INO participation, coincide with changes in the country’s socio-economic context. The dataset was compiled by integrating relevant Zimbabwean articles from Scopus and Web of Science. It comprised 10,753 articles across all fields, of which 2091 were in agriculture and 4353 in health. The results showed that, in the period 2009–2016, 36% of articles in agriculture involved an INO. The corresponding figure for health was 15%. Participation by INOs rarely occurred without any international co-authorship also being present. A visualization of the location of INOs in author research networks revealed a small number of INO authors occupying prominent spaces in the networks for agriculture and health, with the INO authors being of different kinds (e.g. ‘INO only affiliated authors’ vs. ‘INO affiliated authors with other local and foreign affiliations’). It is concluded that relatively small tailor-made bibliometric datasets, developed for African countries with small science systems, have the potential to produce new insights and frameworks to direct future studies on research in Africa.

Past, current, and future perspectives on eco-tourism: a bibliometric review between 2001 and 2018.

With increasing attentions on climate change, solid wastes, over-tourism, and improved environmental awareness worldwide, eco-tourism has been widely promoted worldwide. This requires that governmental agencies at different levels should prepare appropriate policies to facilitate eco-tourism and local communities should take necessary actions to preserve their natural resources, protect their environment, and support sustainable tourism. Academically, literatures on eco-tourism have increased faster with an annual growth rate of 10-30% during the recent years. Under such a circumstance, it is important to conduct a comprehensive review so that research progress on eco-tourism can be summarized and future research directions can be identified. Based on 1771 publications published during 2001-2018, a systematic method combining bibliometric analysis and network analysis is applied in this study to uncover the dynamic trends, academic collaboration, and research hotspots related with eco-tourism. Results show that the total number of relevant publications has gradually increased. Key journals include Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Annals of Tourism Research, Conservation Biology, and Biological Conservation. Authors from USA have the most publications and international co-authorships, while the most influential institution is the Chinese Academy of Science. Moreover, research keywords have been identified, including eco-tourism, management, biodiversity, national park, sustainability, and sustainable tourism. Research findings of this study provide valuable insights to further improve eco-tourism research so that this emerging research field can be proactively fostered.

Collaboration and citation impact: Trends in health sciences research at the University of Cape Town

Against a background of substantial growth in publication output in health sciences at the University of Cape Town (UCT) over the past two decades, we examined the relationship between collaboration with domestic and foreign institutions and resulting citations of co-published work. We report on trends in authorship and citation impact for health sciences research at UCT across three 3-year periods: 1999–2001, 2006–2008 and 2013–2015. We examined numbers of collaborative publications with domestic and foreign co-authors; the status of collaboration with other African countries; the location of the ‘drivers’ of the research (with ‘drivers’ indicated by first or last authorship); and expected and observed citation counts – used as an indicator of impact – over time. We found that the relative citation rate of the set of UCT health sciences publications has increased; the set of 1999–2001 publications was less frequently cited than expected for the journals in which the publications appear, while the 2006–2008 and 2013–2015 sets were cited more frequently than expected. Relative citation rates were greater for papers for which UCT shared international co-authorship than for papers with UCT-only or domestic co-authorship. Our findings confirm reports in the literature of higher citation of internationally co-authored publications. We additionally found that the publications with the highest relative citation rates were driven by authors from foreign institutions.
 Significance:
 
 Methods are presented for extracting, measuring, analysing and representing the citation impact of collaborative research.
 The relative citation rate of health sciences publications produced by UCT has increased and copublication with international authors has increased.
 The findings confirm reports in the literature of higher citation of publications co-authored with international collaborators.
 An apparent influence of foreign drivers on citation impact, holds risk for South African science.

Biases in fiscal multiplier estimates

The size of fiscal multipliers is intensively debated as large (small) multipliers provide arguments to expand (cut) public spending. We use data on multiplier estimates from over a hundred scholarly studies, and ask whether the national imprint and various incentives that the authors face can help explain the large observed variance in these estimates. We complement this meta-analytical data with information on economists’ personal characteristics collected from their biographies and through a self-conducted survey. Our evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that national background and policy orientation of researchers matter for the size of multiplier estimates. We only find weak support for the hypothesis that the interests of donors financing the research are relevant. Significant biases largely disappear for teams of international co-authors.

Impacto da internacionalização na visibilidade da produção científica do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Biológicas: BIOQUÍMICA/UFRGS (2007-2016)

Objetivo: avaliar o impacto da colaboração internacional na visibilidade da produção científica indexada na Web of Science do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Biológicas: Bioquímica, da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, de 2007 a 2016.Método: A partir de técnicas bibliométricas (produção, coautoria e visibilidade), avaliaram-se duas questões centrais na política de internacionalização do Sistema de Avaliação da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES): 1) o conjunto de docentes atende aos atributos qualitativos de internacionalização quanto à publicação com pesquisadores estrangeiros? 2) as publicações com coautoria internacional estão relacionadas com os estratos mais elevados do Qualis Periódicos?Resultado: O aumento da rede de cooperação com diversos países demostra que foi atingida a dimensão internacional da produção científica dos docentes do Programa, seguindo a atual tendência da ciência brasileira. Em 20,8% da produção com coautoria internacional, foram identificadas assimetrias internas: a maioria dos docentes apresentou de uma a cinco ou nenhuma publicação com cooperação de pesquisadores estrangeiros, enquanto que poucos docentes produziram mais de seis publicações individuais. A política de internacionalização é uma estratégia eficaz de difusão científica: as publicações em periódicos classificados nos estratos mais elevados do Qualis têm coautoria internacional.Conclusões: Os resultados apontam para a necessidade de estratégias institucionais e governamentais para minimizar as assimetrias existentes de produção científica entre os docentes com o fomento e estímulo à internacionalização

A Study of Grant Support from Russian Scientific Foundations to Domestic Publications in Leading International Journals (based on Data from Scopus and Web of Science, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, and the Russian Science Foundation)

This article presents a scientometric analysis of funding information provided in publications with Russian affiliation in leading scientific journals that are indexed in both main citation databases, Scopus and Web of Science. Metadata of the array of publications with Russian affiliation that were published in Nature Index journals in 2014–2017 were used as a base for comparing the completeness of data on grant foundations in the two databases and identifying Russian foundations and organizations linked to the largest number of such publications. The article analyzes the grant support for publications of the leading Russian universities and examines the dynamics of activity of both Russian and foreign foundations, as well as international co-authorship. Conclusions are drawn about the significant superiority of the Web of Science in terms of completeness of information indexing and about the distribution of references to the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) and the Russian Science Foundation (RSF). The number of publications that acknowledge the RFBR as the grant sponsor previously exceeded the number of publications that acknowledge the RSF; however, the trend has recently changed, as the RSF has started to show up in a larger number of publications; the role of foreign grant sponsors remains significant. Additionally, directions of comparative citation impact analysis depending on the grant sponsor are outlined.

International Research Collaboration: Why I Love Germany

In this article, I discuss my experiences from my extensive research collaborations with German scholars which has resulted in over 40 publications with over 30 colleagues. The key topics are: what American co-authors have to offer German collaborators, some insights on working with international co-authors, what to look for in international collaborators, and finally, some examples of my most successful collaborations.

New Perspectives on the Associations between Research Performance and International Academic Networks in Science & Engineering Fields

International experience is seen as one factor of advancing networks for researchers, which would lead to heighten the researchers’ performance. By searching through researchers’ past academic publications and countries in which they pursued their higher education, the networks could be developed early and become fruitful to identify the performance of researchers. Quality of university is also questioned when it comes to the performance of researchers, which follows the debate of private and public universities’ quality. Therefore, this study is intended to comprehend the association between three salient variables: type of university, availability of international co-authors, and pursuing higher education abroad. This study takes place in Indonesia, where top researchers whose performance is on the top 150 among all researchers and university lecturers are collected and analyzed. We collected top 150 researchers in Indonesia according to Indonesia’s government official research index website and partake in searching their education and academic background. Using descriptive analysis and chi-square for test of independence, this study generates a new perspective about relationship of performance of researchers in Indonesia with their international experience. Thus, certain policy recommendation emphasizes in support for Indonesian researchers to undergo international experience in form of studying abroad or short research programs abroad.

International Research Collaborations as Perceived by Top-Performing Scholars

This study combines two rapidly growing bodies of literature; one addresses the reasons behind the success of highly productive academics and the second investigates collaborations (international coauthorships in particular). The growing literatures on these two topics mainly involve quantitative bibliometric explanatory studies, denoting the demographic, institutional, and national factors as influential parameters that shape these trends. In this study, in contrast, I employ the notion of agency to analyze 20 in-depth interviews with top-producing academics from Denmark, Israel, and Australia in the fields of education and nanoscience, seeking to better understand the motivations, nature, perceived benefits, and drawbacks of such collaborations. I argue that these highly productive scholars involve themselves in international collaborations for a variety of reasons, but mainly due to the potential of such collaborations to advance their research. However, while scholars in nanoscience align with the disciplinary norms of collaborations and see such partnerships as a mundane part of their scientific work, scholars in education (where international collaborations are less common) perceive these activities as agentic, whereby participants often counteract social norms to pursue joint research. In the context of increasing pressures for accountability, commercialization, and internationalization of and in higher education, this study suggests a nuanced understanding of international research collaborations practiced by highly productive scholars.

Mapping International Co-authorship Networks in Border Studies (1986–2018)

ABSTRACT Border studies have become increasingly global over the past two decades. Yet, a network analysis of the articles published in the Journal of Borderlands Studies from 1986 to 2018 shows that less than half of them have one or more coauthors. Unlike in other scientific disciplines, where a growth of co-publications is observed, this proportion has not really changed over the last decade. Our paper also shows that major divisions can be found within border studies, which is no small paradox for a science supposedly cross-border by nature. Despite the overall global increase in scientific connectivity, internationally co-authored papers are still an exception in our field and scholars have a strong preference for publishing within their own country. Instead of a fully integrated community, they form a fragmented network whose main components are mainly located in the United States. Interviews with border experts reveal that various obstacles contribute to the current fragmentation of border studies. In addition to being separated by geographical distance and, sometimes, by actual walls, border scholars must also able to overcome the cognitive, social, organizational, and institutional distance that separate them.

Perspectives on international collaboration in sales research

International research collaboration and co-authorship among scholars is always encouraged, yet it comes with its share of difficulties. While globalization brings its own challenges in sales, this special issue focuses on the challenges of fostering international collaboration in sales research. Such perspective is important in today’s academic context for three main reasons. First, international collaboration in research forces scholars to take an international perspective on research problems and thus consider fields of study that may transcend cultural boundaries. Second, with international research collaboration indubitably comes broader exchanges of ideas. Having a breadth of perspectives is at the very essence of scholastic work. Third, international research collaborations can drive intellectual communities to embrace important global challenges confronting modern sales organizations.

Impact of International Coauthorships to A Young Malaysian University Specializing in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)

Internationalization is defined as a process of integrating an international, intercultural, or global dimension into the teaching and learning of education. International co-authorship in research article is one of the means of collaboration towards internationalization. This paper investigates the impact of international co-authorship in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) for a specialised young university (<50 years old). The study focused on approximately 9450 articles and the citations ranging from 2012-2017. The impact due to annual article publication, annual citation count, most cited article, annual citation per article and the correlation between the publication and citation were analysed. The finding shows that faculty members of the university have been collaborated with authors from 86 countries since 1997, which dominated by Asian institutions. Amongst, top 30 countries with highest international co-authored publications were identified, which led by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, India, United Kingdom and Japan. Further in detail, annual citation per article (Cpp) showed that collaborations with European countries e.g. Spain, Netherlands, and Hungry, resulting greater mean Cpp. On the other hand, the analysis on the cumulative citation trend illustrated that the citation count is proportional to the number of articles. This study evinced that international co-authorship does show positive impacts to a STEM specialised young university.

Is culture related to strong science? An empirical investigation

National culture is among those societal factors which could influence research and innovation activities. In this study, we investigated the associations of two national culture models with citation impact of nations (measured by the proportion of papers belonging to the 10% and 1% most cited papers in the corresponding fields, PPtop 10% and PPtop 1%). Bivariate statistical analyses showed that of six Hofstede's national culture dimensions (HNCD), uncertainty avoidance and power distance had a statistically significant negative associa-tion, while individualism and indulgence had a statistically significant positive associationwith both citation impact indicators. The study also revealed that of two Inglehart-Welzel cultural values (IWCV), the value survival versus self-expression is statistically significantly related to citation impact indicators. We additionally calculated multiple regression analyses controlling for the possible effects of confounding factors including national self-citations, international co-authorships, invest-ments in research and development, international migrant stock, number of researchers ofeach nation, language, and productivity. The results revealed that the statistically significant associations of HNCD with citation impact indicators disappeared. But the statistically significant relationship between survivals versus self-expression values and citation impact indicators remained stable even after controlling for the confounding variables. Thus, the freedom of expression and trust in society might contribute to better scholarly communication systems, higher level of international collaborations, and further quality research.

Brazilian Articles in Top-Tier Dental Journals and Influence of International Collaboration on Citation Rates

This study investigated the presence of co-authorship from Brazil in articles published in top-tier dental journals and analyzed the influence of international collaboration, article type (original research or review), and funding on citation rates. Articles published between 2015 and 2017 in 38 selected journals from 14 dental subareas were screened in Scopus. Bibliographic information, citation counts, and funding details were recorded for all articles (N=15619). Collaboration with other top-10 publishing countries in dentistry was registered. Annual citations averages (ACA) were calculated. A linear regression model assessed differences in ACA between subareas. Multilevel linear regression models evaluated the influence of article type, funding, and presence of international collaboration in ACA. Brazil was a frequent co-author of articles published in the period (top 3: USA=25.5%; Brazil=13.8%; Germany=9.2%) and the country with most publications in two subareas. The subjects with the biggest share of Brazil are Operative Dentistry/Cariology, Dental Materials, and Endodontics. Brazil was second in total citations, but fifth in citation averages per article. From the total of 2155 articles co-authored by Brazil, 74.8% had no co-authorship from other top-10 publishing countries. USA (17.8%), Italy (4.2%), and UK (3.2%) were the main co-author countries, but the main collaboration country varied between subjects. Implantology and Dental Materials were the subjects with most international co-authorship. Review articles and articles with international collaboration were associated with increased citation rates, whereas the presence of study funding did not influence the citations.

Scientometric Analysis of Scientific Publications on Persian Medicine Indexed in the Web of Science Database

Persian medicine (PM), also known as Iranian traditional medicine, is a collection of ancient experience, knowledge and skills that has been long practiced by Iranian experts for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Given the importance of assessing scientific outputs and the rising popularity of traditional medicine, such as PM, we aimed to perform scientometric analysis and draw a scientific map of PM-related publications to present a research perspective in this field of science. This descriptive and analytical study was carried out with a scientometric approach on all PM-related scientific publications in the Web of Science (WoS) database until November 2018. The VOSviewer software was used for drawing the scientific maps. The results showed that until 18 November 2018, 1717 documents related to the field of PM have been indexed in the Web of Science. Average citation rate in the field of PM was 8.11 citations per document. H-index of these documents was 49. The amount of scientific productions in the field of PM has increased dramatically since 2013 (growth rate= 61.06%). Journal of Ethnopharmacology, which is specifically dedicated to integrative and complementary medicine, has published the greatest number of PM documents (4.834 %). Moreover, 92.02 Percent of the authors of the retrieved articles were from Iran. Kamalinejad M. with 63 documents was the most prolific author in the field of PM, and the Tehran University of Medical Sciences with 336 articles contributed the most to publication of papers on this field. Based on the findings, PM is not well known enough among international researchers, and Iranian researchers and organizations contribute the most to publication of papers on this field of science. Collaborative writing, international co-authorship and participation in international conferences and meetings could fill this gap and boost popularity of this field of science worldwide.

Scientific Publications in Dentistry in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia Between 1996 and 2018: A Bibliometric Analysis.

This study aimed to determine the number and quality of scientific publications in dentistry from the Baltic countries of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia between 1996 and 2018 using bibliometric analysis.Web of Science and Scopus were searched to identify scientific publications in dentistry between 1996 and 2018 by authors from centers in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. The annual number of scientific publications, citation rate, and h-index for each publication, and trends in international co-authorship were investigated by country and institution.There were 651 scientific publications in dentistry between 1996 and 2018, by authors from Lithuania (280 publications), Latvia (210 publications), and Estonia (161 publications). Publications from Estonia were ranked highest in qualitative terms (citation rate and h-index), followed by Lithuania, and Latvia. Of 28 authors with at least ten publications, 54% were Lithuanian (15 authors), 25% were Estonian (7 authors), and 21% were Latvian (6 authors). Estonian authors collaborated mainly with Finland (27 publications), Latvian authors with the USA (16 publications), and Lithuanian authors with Canada (26 publications). Most publications came from the academic institutions of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (136 publications), the University of Tartu (109 publications), Vilnius University (101 publications), and Riga Stradins University (28 publications).During the past 22 years, authors from Lithuania had the most publications in the field of dentistry, and authors from Estonia had the most cited publications. Authors mainly published in native journals and collaborated with authors in Scandinavia and North America.