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Closed Shop or Collaborative Hub? An Analysis of the Partners' Importance in CANZUK Countries' Research Collaborations
Collaborative partners are important in international research collaboration. The research collaborations between four CANZUK countries (Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom) are examined to see whether their research connections are different from the research relationships with ot...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9360419/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35958294 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frma.2022.838553 |
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author | Nguyen, Ba Xuan Dinneen, Jesse David Luczak-Roesch, Markus |
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description | Collaborative partners are important in international research collaboration. The research collaborations between four CANZUK countries (Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom) are examined to see whether their research connections are different from the research relationships with other countries. This paper measures the affinity index values and analyses the development of research collaborations among CANZUK countries with those between the CANZUK and other countries. The whole counting method and the fractional counting method are applied in this study to compare the differences in the results. The findings show that although the affinity index values of CANZUK countries were decreasing over time, the importance of CANZUK partners to CANZUK countries has likely increased over time at the expense of the other partners' importance. The study also shows the minor differences in results obtained by applying two different counting methods. These differences can be explained by the nature of the counting methods, and the choice to use either one of these two counting methods should be considered in other international research collaboration studies. |
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spelling | pubmed-93604192022-08-10 Closed Shop or Collaborative Hub? An Analysis of the Partners' Importance in CANZUK Countries' Research Collaborations Nguyen, Ba Xuan Dinneen, Jesse David Luczak-Roesch, Markus Front Res Metr Anal Research Metrics and Analytics Collaborative partners are important in international research collaboration. The research collaborations between four CANZUK countries (Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom) are examined to see whether their research connections are different from the research relationships with other countries. This paper measures the affinity index values and analyses the development of research collaborations among CANZUK countries with those between the CANZUK and other countries. The whole counting method and the fractional counting method are applied in this study to compare the differences in the results. The findings show that although the affinity index values of CANZUK countries were decreasing over time, the importance of CANZUK partners to CANZUK countries has likely increased over time at the expense of the other partners' importance. The study also shows the minor differences in results obtained by applying two different counting methods. These differences can be explained by the nature of the counting methods, and the choice to use either one of these two counting methods should be considered in other international research collaboration studies. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9360419/ /pubmed/35958294 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frma.2022.838553 Text en Copyright © 2022 Nguyen, Dinneen and Luczak-Roesch. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Research Metrics and Analytics Nguyen, Ba Xuan Dinneen, Jesse David Luczak-Roesch, Markus Closed Shop or Collaborative Hub? An Analysis of the Partners' Importance in CANZUK Countries' Research Collaborations |
title | Closed Shop or Collaborative Hub? An Analysis of the Partners' Importance in CANZUK Countries' Research Collaborations |
title_full | Closed Shop or Collaborative Hub? An Analysis of the Partners' Importance in CANZUK Countries' Research Collaborations |
title_fullStr | Closed Shop or Collaborative Hub? An Analysis of the Partners' Importance in CANZUK Countries' Research Collaborations |
title_full_unstemmed | Closed Shop or Collaborative Hub? An Analysis of the Partners' Importance in CANZUK Countries' Research Collaborations |
title_short | Closed Shop or Collaborative Hub? An Analysis of the Partners' Importance in CANZUK Countries' Research Collaborations |
title_sort | closed shop or collaborative hub? an analysis of the partners' importance in canzuk countries' research collaborations |
topic | Research Metrics and Analytics |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9360419/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35958294 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frma.2022.838553 |
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