Scientific collaboration between ‘old’ and ‘new’ member states: Did joining the European Union make a difference?

Abstract

This paper provides new insights on the effects of the enlargement of the European Union (EU) and European integration by investigating the issue of scientific collaboration within the new EU member states vis-à-vis the old EU member states. The question addressed is whether the EU membership following the two enlargement waves 2004 and 2007 has significantly increased the co-publication intensity of the new member states with other member countries. The empirical results based on data collected from the Web of Science database and Difference-in-Difference estimations point towards a conclusion that joining the EU indeed has had an additional positive impact on the co-publication intensity between the new and old member states and, in particular, within the new member states themselves. These results give tentative support for the successfulness of the EU’s science policies in achieving a common ‘internal market’ in research. We also find evidence for early anticipation effects of the consecutive EU accession.

Network structure of scientific collaborations between China and the EU member states

“…Thirteen countries joined the EU in the 2000s, namely Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia in 2004, Bulgaria and Romania in 2007, and Croatia in 2013. 9 Due to the time difference in joining the EU, different collaboration patterns have been observed between the established 15 member states and the 13 new members (Makkonen and Mitze 2016 ). Following Makkonen and Mitze ( 2016 ), we disentangle the established 15 ‘old’ EU member states 10 which joined the EU before 2004 from the 13 ‘new’ ones.…”

Bibliometric analysis of Central European journals in the Web of Science and JCR Social Science Edition

“…The analysis included authors' addresses, productivity parameters (authors, institutions, year of publication, article type, language, journal) and citation. Recent studies in the field of bibliometric analysis especially in social sciences and humanities have pointed out to high share of publishing articles primarily oriented to local or regional topics (Makkonen and Mitze 2016;Abrizah, Xu and Nicholas 2017;Jurajda et al 2017;Tang, Zhang and Naumann 2017). These topics are mostly published in journals and monographs with local or regional impact for limited number of readers.…”

Transatlantic Affiliations of Scientific Collaboration in Strategic Management: A Quarter-Century of Bibliometric Evidence

“…This is in line with the observation of traditional Russian-CEE links in social sciences (Marshakova-Shaikevich, 2010, p. 62) that are rooted in the 20 th century. Even the discussed increase in overall scientific collaboration between older and newer European Union members (Makkonen & Mitze, 2016) doesn't seem to affect this state. The average number of authors shows the extent of the authors involvement in the research, on average.…”