Geographical and Lingual Preferences in Scientific Collaboration of the European Union (1994-2003)

Liang, Liming and Zhang, Lin and Kretschmer, Hildrun and Scharnhorst, Andrea (2006) Geographical and Lingual Preferences in Scientific Collaboration of the European Union (1994-2003). In Proceedings International Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Seventh COLLNET Meeting, Nancy (France).

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Abstract

In 2001 and 2004 we launched and relaunched a project to study the structure and mechanism of scientific collaboration among 15 member countries of European Union (EU-15) using bibliometric data (1994-2003). This paper presents the basic ideas, methods, and part of the findings. In scientific collaboration EU-15 gets more open over the past decade. The proportion of the collaboration within EU countries is decreasing, while the proportion of the collaboration of EU countries with also the co-authors from non-EU countries is increasing. There exist geographical and lingual preferences in EU-15 scientific collaboration. When the geographical proximity of the collaborative countries gets smaller, the collaborative strength negative-exponentially declines. When the lingual proximity of the collaborative countries gets smaller, the collaborative strength negative-exponentially declines, as well

Keywords:	scientific collaboration, bibliometrics
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information. > BB. Bibliometric methods. B. Information use and sociology of information.
ID Code:	6309
Deposited By:	Morrison, Heather G
Deposited On:	23 May 2006
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