Exploring the changing geographical pattern of international scientific collaborations through the prism of cities.

ABSTRACT: Science is becoming increasingly international in terms of breaking down walls in its pursuit of high impact. Despite geographical location and distance still being major barriers for scientific collaboration, little is known about whether high-impact collaborations are similarly constrained by geography compared to collaborations of average impact. To address this question, we analyze Web of Science (WoS) data on international collaboration between global leader cities in science production. We report an increasing intensity of international city-city collaboration and find that average distance of collaboration of the strongest connections has slightly increased, but distance decay has remained stable over the last three decades. However, high-impact collaborations span large distances b

SUBMITTER: Csomos G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7668612 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature