Multilateral co-authorship: an important but easily overlooked pattern in international scientific collaboration research

Weishu Liu () and Ruifeng Zhang ()
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Weishu Liu: Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics
Ruifeng Zhang: Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics

Scientometrics, 2024, vol. 129, issue 7, No 40, 4668 pages

Abstract: Abstract A recent study published in Scientometrics used publications in Scopus and Web of Science Core Collection to exam the decades-long scientific collaboration between Cuba and China (Ronda-Pupo, Scientometrics 129:785–802, 2024). Ronda-Pupo’s finding of the significant growth of research collaboration between these two countries evidenced by the number of co-authored papers is different from our daily perception of the scientific collaboration between China and Cuba. By using the same data, we find the dominating role of multilateral co-authorship rather than bilateral or trilateral co-authorship in Cuba-China scientific collaboration. This important finding gives an alternative explanation of the increasing Cuba-China co-authored publications. Through the supplement of our exploration, readers can have a better understanding of the Cuba-China scientific collaboration.

Keywords: Co-authorship; Scientific collaboration; International collaboration; Multilateral collaboration; China; Cuba (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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