1. Evolutionary convergence of the patterns of international research collaborations across scientific fields
- Author
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Wang, L., Coccia, M., Mt Economic Research Inst on Innov/Techn, and RS: UNU-MERIT Theme 1
- Subjects
n00 - Economic History: General ,n33 - Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913 ,n31 - "Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S ,Canada: Pre-1913" ,convergence ,scientific fields ,research collaboration ,interdisciplinary ,science evolution ,co-publishing ,co-authorship - Abstract
Frame and Carpenter (1979) analysed the pattern of international research collaboration among scientific fields in 1970s. Starting from this pioneering work, this paper investigates international collaborations over 1997-2012 and compares the critical results with earlier studies to detect the evolution of collaboration patterns in different scientific fields. Empirical analysis supports two vital findings, given by: a) a relatively stable structure of international research collaborations over time across different scientific fields; b) a convergent process of collaboration patterns between theoretical and applied research fields. One important deter-minant of the latter result might be due to the increasing interdisciplinary nature of research fields that supports the convergence between basic and applied sciences.
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- 2015