Follow the leader: On the relationship between leadership and scholarly impact in international collaborations.
National contributions to science are influenced by a number of factors, including economic capacity, national scientific priorities, science policy, and institutional settings and cultures. Nations do not have equal opportunities to access the global scientific market, and therefore, often seek out...
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| author | Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez Cassidy R Sugimoto Vincent Larivière |
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| description | National contributions to science are influenced by a number of factors, including economic capacity, national scientific priorities, science policy, and institutional settings and cultures. Nations do not have equal opportunities to access the global scientific market, and therefore, often seek out international partners with complementary resources and expertise. This study aims at investigating national collaboration strategies, with a focus on research leadership-measured through corresponding authorship-and its relationship with scientific impact. Results show that countries with higher R&D investments are more scientifically independent, and confirm that international collaboration is positively related to citation impact. However, leadership in international collaboration is inversely related with a countries' share of international collaboration and there is a very little relationship between citation impact and international leadership. For instance, most countries-and particularly those that have fewer resources-have higher scientific impact when they are not leading. This suggests that, despite increasing global participation in science, most international collaborations are asymmetrical, and that the research system remains structured around a few dominate nations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-76120eaf1e0d4c56858d14fbcc5852542023-10-13T05:31:52ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032019-01-01146e021830910.1371/journal.pone.0218309Follow the leader: On the relationship between leadership and scholarly impact in international collaborations.Zaida Chinchilla-RodríguezCassidy R SugimotoVincent LarivièreNational contributions to science are influenced by a number of factors, including economic capacity, national scientific priorities, science policy, and institutional settings and cultures. Nations do not have equal opportunities to access the global scientific market, and therefore, often seek out international partners with complementary resources and expertise. This study aims at investigating national collaboration strategies, with a focus on research leadership-measured through corresponding authorship-and its relationship with scientific impact. Results show that countries with higher R&D investments are more scientifically independent, and confirm that international collaboration is positively related to citation impact. However, leadership in international collaboration is inversely related with a countries' share of international collaboration and there is a very little relationship between citation impact and international leadership. For instance, most countries-and particularly those that have fewer resources-have higher scientific impact when they are not leading. This suggests that, despite increasing global participation in science, most international collaborations are asymmetrical, and that the research system remains structured around a few dominate nations.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218309 |
| spellingShingle | Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez Cassidy R Sugimoto Vincent Larivière Follow the leader: On the relationship between leadership and scholarly impact in international collaborations. PLoS ONE |
| title | Follow the leader: On the relationship between leadership and scholarly impact in international collaborations. |
| title_full | Follow the leader: On the relationship between leadership and scholarly impact in international collaborations. |
| title_fullStr | Follow the leader: On the relationship between leadership and scholarly impact in international collaborations. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Follow the leader: On the relationship between leadership and scholarly impact in international collaborations. |
| title_short | Follow the leader: On the relationship between leadership and scholarly impact in international collaborations. |
| title_sort | follow the leader on the relationship between leadership and scholarly impact in international collaborations |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218309 |
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