Scientific co-operation in Europe and the citation of multinationally authored papers

Africa’s contribution to the worldwide research literature: New analytical perspectives, trends, and performance indicators

“…Earlier bibliometric studies have shown that international co-publications in CI-listed journals tend to, on average, receive relatively large numbers of citations compared to other publications within the same fields of research (e.g. NARIN et al, 1991) -this also appears to be the case for CI-papers with African co-authors.…”

The geography of collaborative knowledge production in Europe

“…International collaboration is also expected to generate intellectual benefits from the cross-fertilization of ideas that previously were unconnected. Indeed, scientific articles stemming from international collaboration projects, on average, receive more citations than national collaboration projects (Narin et al 1991;Katz and Martin 1997). The European Commission's objective to create an ERA by stimulating research collaboration is therefore legitimate as long as barriers exist that impede European researchers from engaging in research collaboration.…”

“…Such an objective assumes that a European Research Area does not yet exist and that its creation requires action at several levels of spatial aggregation. Yet, studies assessing these assumptions are scarce and traditionally have focused only on the level of countries (e.g., Narin et al 1991;Glänzel 2001;Frenken 2002). Little is known about the regional dimension of collaborative knowledge production despite its supposed relevance in the light of regional, national and European policies.…”

New Approach to the Visualization of International Scientific Collaboration

“…44,45 Another matter dealt with in the early 1990s was the positive correlation between the Impact Factor (IF) of a journal in which an article is published and, by extrapolation, the number of citations received by the article, and the participation of more than one author (individual or institutional). [46][47][48][49] As a general rule, the greater the number of partners, the greater the impact of the documents produced, particularly in the case of international collaboration.…”