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

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.

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Analysis of Influence Factors on the Quality of International Collaboration Research in the Field of Social Sciences and Humanities: The Case of Chinese World Class Universities (2015–2019)

SAGE Open ◽

10.1177/21582440211050381 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 215824402110503

Author(s):

Cheng Zhe ◽

Xingfu Lu ◽

Xiong Xiong

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

International Collaboration ◽

Research Performance ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Least Square ◽

Research Papers ◽

Social Sciences And Humanities ◽

World Class ◽

World Class Universities ◽

The Impact

This article aims to reveal the factors that affecting the impact of international collaboration papers in the field of social sciences and humanities. Based on resource-based theory and transaction cost theory, we analyzed the articles from a sample of 13,331 listed research papers come from the 42 world class universities in China using descriptive statistics, ordinary least square (OLS) regression, and came to the following conclusions: First, it is the quality rather than the quantity of international collaborator that affect the academic influence of the research outputs. Second, researchers from different backgrounds are conducive to improve the impact of research papers and the collaboration leading by Chinese university perform better. Yet, too much collaborators coming from different institutions would have an adverse impact, which may due to the increase cost of cooperation. Finally, collaborating researchers from developed countries or top universities will significantly improve the research performance because of the abundant resources behind them. Findings from this research suggest that setting up international collaboration should pay more attention to the level of the collaborator and consider the cost behind the whole process.

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

Applied Network Science ◽

10.1007/s41109-021-00371-w ◽

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.

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

Library Hi Tech ◽

10.1108/lht-03-2020-0075 ◽

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.

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

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0260239 ◽

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.

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Relations between international research collaboration, scientific production and the impact of research at Polish universities

Universities, Cities and Regions ◽

10.4324/9780203097144-16 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 171-190

Keyword(s):

International Research ◽

Research Collaboration ◽

Scientific Production ◽

International Research Collaboration ◽

The Impact

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New Developments in International Research Collaboration

International Higher Education ◽

10.6017/ihe.2008.50.7998 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Sachi Hatakenaka

Keyword(s):

International Research ◽

Research Collaboration ◽

Research Capacity ◽

Research Center ◽

International Research Collaboration ◽

New Developments ◽

Center Of Excellence ◽

Economic Significance ◽

World Class

International research collaboration has entered an era in which networking has a direct economic significance. Some governments are already beginning to pay a premium to become hubs in global excellence networks. The approaches include strengthening its bilateral ties, investing in world-class research center of excellence. The question is whether these developments will produce significant changes in the world's research capacity.

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Objectivity of Scientific Research as an Ethical and Political Position (Book Review: P.P. Tolochko. Ukraine between Russia and the West: Historical and Nonfiction Essays. Saint Petersburg: Saint Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018)

Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences ◽

10.30727/0235-1188-2019-62-11-144-153 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 62 (11) ◽

pp. 144-153

Author(s):

Alexander S. Zapesotsky

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Scientific Research ◽

The West ◽

Full Member ◽

Saint Petersburg ◽

Political Position ◽

Humanities And Social Sciences ◽

Nonfiction Essays ◽

The Impact

Book Review: P.P. Tolochko. Ukraine between Russia and the West: Historical and Nonfiction Essays. Saint Petersburg: Saint Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018. - 592 pp. ISBN 978-5-7621-0973-4This author discusses the problem of scientific objectivity and reviews a book written by the medievalist-historian P.P. Tolochko, full member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), honorable director of the NASU Institute of Archaeology. The book was published by the Saint Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences in the autumn of 2018. The book presents a collection of articles and reports devoted to processes in Ukraine and, first of all, in Ukrainian historical science, which, at the moment, is experiencing an era of serious reformation of its interpretative models. The author of the book shows that these models are being reformed to suit the requirements of the new ideology, with an obvious disregard for the conduct of objective scientific research. In this regard, the problem of objectivity of scientific research becomes the subject of this review because the requirement of objectivity can be viewed not only as a methodological requirement but also as a moral and political position, opposing the rigor of scientific research to the impact of ideological, political and moral systems and judgments. It is concluded that in this sense the position of P.P. Tolochko can be considered as the act of profound ethical choice.

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International research delivers many rewards

Impact ◽

10.21820/23987073.2020.6.84 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2020 (6) ◽

pp. 84-85

Author(s):

Lucy Annette

Keyword(s):

Experimental Design ◽

International Collaboration ◽

International Research ◽

Research Funding ◽

Research Focus ◽

World Class ◽

Opening Up

International collaboration in research is not a new concept, but as pressure on research funding increases, project applications for funding must deliver a comprehensive package of well-considered experimental design, impactful research focus and a world-class team. Collaborations with key international leaders in their fields are an excellent way of boosting the credentials of any project, increasing the chances of the group getting funding by opening up their pool of potential funders.

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