Scientific collaboration of Cuban researchers working in Europe: understanding relations between origin and destination countries.

ABSTRACT: The global network of scientific collaboration created by researchers opens new opportunities for developing countries to engage in the process of knowledge creation historically lead by institutions in the developed world. The results discussed here explore how Cubans working in European science and technology might contribute to extending the scientific collaboration of the country through their ties with Cuban institutions mainly in the academic sector. A bibliometric method was used to explore the pattern of collaboration of Cuban researchers in Europe using the institutional affiliation of authors and collaborators. The records of scientific publications of the defined sample were obtained from Scopus database for the period between 1995 and 2014. The network of collaboration w

SUBMITTER: Palacios-Callender M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6280978 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature