Research collaboration: Americans are more open
Researchers in America are more likely to collaborate with peers outside the US than European researchers are to work with colleagues outside Europe, according to a new report.
But it says the benefits of collaborating outside their region are proportionally greater for European than for US researchers.
Researchers at Science Europe and the giant Amsterdam-based publishing company Elsevier prepared the 50-page report Comparative Benchmarking of European and US Research Collaboration and Researcher Mobility. It shows that both Europe and the US have experienced steady growth in overall collaboration rates since 2003.
Inter-country collaboration in Europe showed an increase, from slightly more than 11 per cent in 2003 to 13 per cent of articles in 2011, contrasting with recently decreasing levels in analogous inter-state collaboration in the US, at 16 per cent of articles in 2011.
Europe and the United States collectively represent some of the greatest scientific nations in the world. Europe is home to 1.64 million researchers while the US number approaches 1.47 million,” the report says.
Source: University World News
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