Working Paper #2015-011
Evolutionary convergence of the patterns of international research collaborations across scientific fields
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.
- Keywords
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- Scientific Fields
- Research Collaboration
- Science Evolution
- Co-authorship
- Co-publishing
- Interdisciplinary
- Convergence
- JEL codes
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- O31
- O39
- O10
- N00
- N31
- N33
Cite this as
APA 7th ed.Wang, L., & Coccia, M. (2015). Evolutionary convergence of the patterns of international research collaborations across scientific fields (UNU-MERIT Working Paper No. 2015-011). UNU-MERIT. https://unu-merit.nl/publications/working-papers/abstract/?id=5642