scholarly journals Developing a Framework for a Remote, International Research Collaboration Among Graduate Students: Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Samantha Ghali ◽  
Mira Goral ◽  
Heba Salama
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
International Collaboration ◽  
International Research ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Collaborative Partnerships ◽  
Remote Collaboration ◽  
Research Collaborations

Purpose: This article describes a framework for developing international research collaborations among graduate students. Central to this framework is the utility of institutional and association-based academic mentorship programs in developing collaborative partnerships. We illustrate how the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's Mentoring Academic Research Careers program served as a vehicle for fostering remote collaboration and provided training experiences for graduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Conclusions: This model successfully supported doctoral students in developing an ongoing and sustainable research partnership during a challenging time when in-person networking opportunities were unavailable. This partnership provided a unique pathway for professional development that complemented formal academic training. More broadly, international collaboration experiences such as these provide valuable, skill-based training for all students, such that they are better equipped to serve diverse populations and as members of diverse teams. We offer recommendations for others endeavoring to develop international collaboration initiatives for students paired with mentorship.

scholarly journals Lessons Learned from an Academic, Interdisciplinary, Multi-Campus, Research Collaboration

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Elaine Nguyen ◽  
Xiaomeng Xu ◽  
Renee Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Research Infrastructure ◽  
Senior Faculty ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Research Collaborations ◽  
Article Type

Background: The formation of productive academic research groups can be difficult, especially in environments without a robust and existing research infrastructure. Idaho and Alaska, are Institutional Development Award (IDeA)-eligible states, historically receiving low levels of funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Purpose/Methods: We present a case study highlighting an academic research collaboration established across two-disciplines, three-career stages, and three-campuses utilizing distance technology. Results: One lesson learned from our experiences is that regardless of position (junior or senior faculty) or time at the institution/department (new or established), it is important to reach out to others. Collaborations require conscientious effort to establish and maintain. Second, a psychologically safe space must be created, establishing trust.  Lastly, in order to eliminate distractions, optimize team performance, and improve deliverables, the team must have a shared mission. Team members must recognize, appreciate, and fully utilize each other and available resources. Conclusion: Our experiences and lessons learned can be utilized by others to strengthen opportunities to form and grow interdisciplinary research collaborations and develop a stronger research infrastructure.   Article Type: Note

scholarly journals Is academia becoming more localised? The growth of regional knowledge networks within international research collaboration

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Fitzgerald ◽  
Sanna Ojanperä ◽  
Neave O’Clery
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
International Collaboration ◽  
International Research ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Knowledge Networks ◽  
Collaboration Network ◽  
International Research Collaboration ◽  
The Past ◽  
Capability Building

AbstractIt is well-established that the process of learning and capability building is core to economic development and structural transformation. Since knowledge is ‘sticky’, a key component of this process is learning-by-doing, which can be achieved via a variety of mechanisms including international research collaboration. Uncovering significant inter-country research ties using Scopus co-authorship data, we show that within-region collaboration has increased over the past five decades relative to international collaboration. Further supporting this insight, we find that while communities present in the global collaboration network before 2000 were often based on historical geopolitical or colonial lines, in more recent years they increasingly align with a simple partition of countries by regions. These findings are unexpected in light of a presumed continual increase in globalisation, and have significant implications for the design of programmes aimed at promoting international research collaboration and knowledge diffusion.

Output regularities of China's international collaboration research projects funded by NSFC

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiujuan Chen ◽  
Zhiqiang Zhang ◽  
Jinjing Guo
Keyword(s):  
International Collaboration ◽  
International Research ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Research Capacity ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
International Research Collaboration ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Joint Research Project

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide theoretical basis and data support for researchers to choose appropriate international partners, provide a basis for Chinese research funding agencies, such as National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) to formulate international research collaboration (IRC) strategies and policies and provide recommendations for the improvement of the internationalization level of China's basic scientific research.Design/methodology/approachBased on existing research, this study took output of “Major International (Regional) Joint Research Project” (MIJRP) funded by NSFC and participated by Chinese scholars in the meantime as the analysis object, proposed hypotheses and constructed the indicators of IRC and research output (RO). In addition, the mathematical statistics was used to compare the RO of China's IRC and nonIRC, and the statistical analysis model was used to measure the influence on RO of collaboration country's research capacity, research collaboration between China and US, scope of international research collaboration and reprint author country.FindingsThe RO of China's IRC is higher than that of nonIRC; research capacity of collaboration country has no inevitable effect on the RO of China's IRC; the RO of China's IRC participated by Americans is higher than that without American scholars; expanding the scope of China's IRC to some degree can increase RO; the RO of China's IRC led by foreigners is higher than that led by Chinese. In particular, China–US IRC and foreign scholars acting as the reprint author are two major factors for the RO of China's IRC.Originality/valueMost of the traditional research on IRC are based on the co-author papers, and this study tried to analyze the characteristics and regularities on IRC from a new view of international collaboration projects, which can be a supplement to the traditional international collaboration research on co-author papers.

scholarly journals Exchanging Disaster Science Expertise Between Countries—A Japanese Personal Perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 233-250
Author(s):  
Osamu Murao
Keyword(s):  
International Research ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Disaster Mitigation ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
Broad Array ◽  
International Collaborative ◽  
International Collaborative Research ◽  
Disaster Science

Abstract Having experienced firsthand the catastrophic Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011, Tohoku University founded the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) in 2012. IRIDeS staff, with a broad array of relevant specializations, conducts world-class research on disaster science and disaster mitigation in collaboration with organizations from many countries. As a member of IRIDeS, Prof. Osamu Murao, the founder and manager of the International Strategy for Disaster Mitigation Laboratory (ISDM), has conducted several international collaborative research projects. This chapter briefly reports on the activities of the IRIDeS and ISDM and highlights key factors for successful international collaborative research and exchange experiences with other countries. The author recounts his initial collaborative research experience in a long-term project examining Taiwan’s recovery from the impact of the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake which was the foundation of the international research collaboration at ISDM. The chapter concludes with a summary of the valuable lessons learned from the author’s participation in this research.

scholarly journals Generational differences in international research collaboration: A bibliometric study of Norwegian University staff

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. e0260239
Author(s):  
Kristoffer Rørstad ◽  
Dag W. Aksnes ◽  
Fredrik Niclas Piro
Keyword(s):  
International Collaboration ◽  
International Research ◽  
Generational Differences ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Publication Output ◽  
International Research Collaboration ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Age Cohorts

This paper addresses the relationship between age and international research collaboration. The main research question is: do younger researchers collaborate more internationally than their senior colleagues? A common assumption is that younger generations are generally more internationally oriented than older generations. On the other hand, senior researchers may have larger international networks compared to younger colleagues. The study is based on data for 5,600 Norwegian researchers and their publication output during a three-year period (44,000 publications). Two indicators for international collaboration are used: The share of researchers involved in international collaboration measured by co-authorship and the average proportion of publications with international collaboration per researcher. These indicators reflect two different dimensions of international collaboration. Although the findings are not consistent across age cohorts and indicators of internationalization, the overall trend is that international collaboration tends to decline with increasing age. This holds both at aggregate levels and within groups of academic positions. However, the generational differences are not very large, and other variables such as the field of research explain more of the differences observed at an individual level.

scholarly journals Negotiating International Research Collaborations in Tajikistan

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-112
Author(s):  
Emma Sabzalieva
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
International Research ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
International Research Collaboration ◽  
Science System ◽  
Global Science ◽  
Research Collaborations ◽  
The Soviet Union

The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 heralded not only the creation and opening of borders but also the rapid entry of new actors and ideas into this previously isolated part of the world. This is typified by dramatic increases in the number of international research collaborations involving an ever-growing array of actors. Yet instead of pluralizing knowledge creation and ways of knowing, intensifying processes of globalization have given rise to a “global science” system that has not flattened or significantly altered existing knowledge hierarchies, despite greater diversity in international research collaborations. In the former Soviet state of Tajikistan, this is further tempered by resourcing gaps, political controls, and cultural factors, offering a unique setting through which to explore how researchers negotiate international research collaborations. Centering the perspectives of Tajikistani researchers, the article offers new insights into the reframing of globally homogenizing models of international research collaboration.

scholarly journals Global infectious disease research collaborations in crises: building capacity and inclusivity through cooperation

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathon P. Fanning ◽  
Srinivas Murthy ◽  
Nchafatso G. Obonyo ◽  
J. Kenneth Baillie ◽  
Steve Webb ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
International Research ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Main Body ◽  
International Research Collaboration ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Building Capacity ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Research Collaborations ◽  
Low And Middle Income

Abstract Background The initial research requirements in pandemics are predictable. But how is it possible to study a disease that is so quickly spreading and to rapidly use that research to inform control and treatment? Main body In our view, a dilemma with such wide-reaching impact mandates multi-disciplinary collaborations on a global scale. International research collaboration is the only means to rapidly address these fundamental questions and potentially change the paradigm of data sharing for the benefit of patients throughout the world. International research collaboration presents significant benefits but also barriers that need to be surmounted, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Conclusion Facilitating international cooperation, by building capacity in established collaborative platforms and in low- and middle-income countries, is imperative to efficiently answering the priority clinical research questions that can change the trajectory of a pandemic.

scholarly journals What Can Influence the Quality of International Collaborative Publications: A Case Study of Humanities and Social Sciences International Collaboration in China’s Double First-Class Project Universities

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Zhe Cheng ◽  
Xingfu Lu ◽  
Xiong Xiong ◽  
Chuanyi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Collaboration ◽  
International Research ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
International Research Collaboration ◽  
World Class ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
High Level ◽  
World Class Universities ◽  
The Impact

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.

Invisibilizing Eurasia: How North–South Dichotomization Marginalizes Post-Soviet Scholars in International Research Collaborations

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-130
Author(s):  
Aliya Kuzhabekova
Keyword(s):  
Power Distribution ◽  
International Research ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
International System ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Collaborative Relationships ◽  
The North ◽  
Research Collaborations

Despite the growing complexity and multidimensionality of the system of international research collaborations, the colonial discourse casting the collaborative relationships in terms of polarized North–South antitheses persists and continues to exert influence on the nature of power distribution in the relationships, as well as on the conceptualization of some players in the relationship as superior donors, whereas others as inferior recipients. In this article, I demonstrate how dichotomic representation of the geopolitical entities involved in international research collaboration fails to acknowledge the existence and marginalizes a large and extremely talented academic community of Eurasian scholars, which has the potential to enrich and transform the global knowledge system if it becomes more actively and authoritatively involved in the international system of ideas exchange and knowledge generation. I argue that this invisibilization of post-Soviet research community is part of the logic of postcolonial governmentality, which creates the demand and draws the post-Soviet world into international trade in knowledge-related expert services, whereby profits and benefits from the trade are reaped by the countries, which self-categorize as the North, while undermining the potential of the former Soviet scholarly community to contribute to global knowledge production on equal terms.

scholarly journals Faculty Perspectives on Research Collaborations between the U.S. and Mexico

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. p63
Author(s):  
Hilda Cecilia Contreras Aguirre ◽  
Elsa Gonzalez
Keyword(s):  
International Research ◽  
English Language ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Research Collaborations ◽  
And Mathematics

The transfer of knowledge in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) across countries is a common practice in academia, which is both timely and useful to achieve research collaborations. Through a qualitative research approach, using interviews and observations, five STEM Mexican professors shared their experiences and expectations in leading the research collaborations where professors and students participated. This qualitative inquiry utilized Sargent and Water’s (2004) academic research collaborations framework, which highlights the interactive phases for achieving successful collaborations. The findings revealed that: 1) institutional support through department chairs’ encouragement along with professors’ leadership to expand research collaborations in both countries are favorable and 2) more resources to fund students’ participation in international research collaborations and better climate that help students feel socially included and academically integrated to a new setting seem necessary. The article concludes with perspectives and implications for strengthening the research exchanges between the United States (U.S.) and Mexico. Among them, highlighting the positive impact that international research collaborations have for universities in both countries, the need to expand the funding for students’ mobility overseas, and the improvement of English language training to strengthen students’ connections, and, consequently, collaboration.

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