The effect of geographical proximity on scientific cooperation among Chinese cities from 1990 to 2010.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The relations between geographical proximity and spatial distance constitute a popular topic of concern. Thus, how geographical proximity affects scientific cooperation, and whether geographically proximate scientific cooperation activities in fact exhibit geographic scale features should be investigated.

Methodology

Selected statistics from the ISI database on cooperatively authored papers, the authors of which resided in 60 typical cites in China, and which were published in the years 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, and 2010, were used to establish matrices of geographic distance and cooperation levels between cities. By constructing a distance-cooperation model, the degree of scientific cooperation based on spatial distance was calculated. The relationship between geog

SUBMITTER: Ma H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4218805 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature