New Approach to the Visualization of International Scientific Collaboration

Abstract

In this study, visual representations are created in order to analyze different aspects of scientific collaboration at the international level. The main objective is to identify the international facet of research by following the flow of knowledge as expressed by the number of scientific publications, and then establishes the main geographical axes of output, showing the interrelationships of the domain, the intensity of these relations, and how the different types of collaboration are reflected in terms of visibility. Thus, the methodology has a twofold application, allowing us to detect significant differences that help characterize patterns of behaviour of a geographical system of output, along with the generation of representations that serve as interfaces for domain analysis and information retrieval.

Psychological Research Collaboration and Visibility in Iberoamerica

“…Once these collaborative relationships are established, they are sustained through scientific output-published articles produced by the collaborators-and the attention that that output draws. Collaboration, however, occurs on different levels: locally, nationally or internationally (ChinchillaRodríguez, Vargas-Quesada, Hassan-Montero, González-Molina, & Moya-Anegón, 2009;Guerrero Bote, OlmedaGómez, & de Moya-Anegón, 2013). Studies indicate that internationalization is a factor related to the mechanism of collaboration (Chinchilla-Rodríguez et al, 2009;Guerrero Bote et al, 2013).…”

“…One way to measure international collaboration is through the analysis of output from researchers, joint projects, academic events, and research training (Chinchilla-Rodríguez et al, 2009;Garcia et al, 2014). Following Chinchilla-Rodríguez et al (2009), we understand that collaboration is the reflection of an individual and institutional process that promotes generation of output, first and foremost which are scientific articles.…”

“…Following Chinchilla-Rodríguez et al (2009), we understand that collaboration is the reflection of an individual and institutional process that promotes generation of output, first and foremost which are scientific articles. Publications are not the only way to measure the collaboration process, given that they can generate material difficult to evaluate in terms of long-term scientific merit; but they do serve as a means to quantify collaboration.…”

“…Publications are not the only way to measure the collaboration process, given that they can generate material difficult to evaluate in terms of long-term scientific merit; but they do serve as a means to quantify collaboration. For the purpose of this paper, collaboration will be defined as output derived from co-authorship between researchers at different institutions (Chinchilla-Rodríguez et al, 2009;Garcia et al, 2014;Katz & Martin, 1997).…”

Revisión bibliométrica de las Ciencias de la Información en América Latina y el Caribe

“…Este comportamiento ha sido analizado por otros autores basándose en otros contextos (Russell et al, 2007;Arencibia y Araujo, 2008;Chinchilla et al, 2010).…”