Scientific collaboration policy

Olechnicka, Agnieszka; Ploszaj, Adam; Celińska-Janowicz, Dorota

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“…Dominating the global agenda also implies that dominant scientific actors are shaping the research agendas at the local level of peripheral states because in the labour division the latter’s researchers often function as subcontractors. Moreover, the affluent position of core countries helps attracting talent from peripheral countries, contributing to work migration of highly trained individuals (Olechnicka et al, 2019, pp. 102–107).…”

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“…‘The network structure of global scientific collaboration does not imply that horizontal relations among countries prevail. On the contrary, the system can be described as hierarchical’ (Olechnicka et al, 2019, p. 103). This observation suggests that we should consider the positive effects of international scientific networks for scientists while not ignoring the network’s hierarchies and continuous scientific dependencies.…”

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confidence: 99%

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In Between Centre and Periphery: Kenya as a Key Scientific Nation in East Africa?

Lutomiah

Blanckenberg

Skupien

2022

Science, Technology and Society

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Kenya’s government has identified science, technology and innovation as key for its national development plan and has started to refurbish its research environment. In this article, we use the world system approach to discuss the largely peripheral relations of Kenya’s science systems to the global science system and to identify indications for Kenya becoming a semi-peripheral scientific player itself within Eastern Africa. While the publications are dominantly oriented towards the Global North and while foreign sources fund nearly half of Kenya’s research and development (R&D), the country starts to become an important country for its neighbours. However, Kenya is still facing an unstable system of integrating significantly more graduate students. These are seen as essential to provide for a sustainable knowledge base that is required for the country’s socio-economic goals. We point to the lack of robust and recent data on R&D in Kenya as an impediment to evidence-based policy-making.

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Section: Situating Semi-peripheriesmentioning

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Section: Situating Semi-peripheriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

In Between Centre and Periphery: Kenya as a Key Scientific Nation in East Africa?

Lutomiah

Blanckenberg

Skupien

2022

Science, Technology and Society

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“…These networks are not officially recorded elsewhere because these relationships may not appear in explicit co-authorship networks. However, as other studies have mentioned, it is useful to identify support networks for researchers as a type of scientific collaboration [ 2 , 11 ]. This study sheds light on the relationships between these networks for productivity.…”

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Using egocentric analysis to investigate professional networks and productivity of graduate students and faculty in life sciences in Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan

2017

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Prior studies showed that scientists’ professional networks contribute to research productivity, but little work has examined what factors predict the formation of professional networks. This study sought to 1) examine what factors predict the formation of international ties between faculty and graduate students and 2) identify how these international ties would affect publication productivity in three East Asian countries. Face-to-face surveys and in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with a sample of faculty and doctoral students in life sciences at 10 research institutions in Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan. Our final sample consisted of 290 respondents (84 faculty and 206 doctoral students) and 1,435 network members. We used egocentric social network analysis to examine the structure of international ties and how they relate to research productivity. Our findings suggest that overseas graduate training can be a key factor in graduate students’ development of international ties in these countries. Those with a higher proportion of international ties in their professional networks were likely to have published more papers and written more manuscripts. For faculty, international ties did not affect the number of manuscripts written or of papers published, but did correlate with an increase in publishing in top journals. The networks we examined were identified by asking study participants with whom they discuss their research. Because the relationships may not appear in explicit co-authorship networks, these networks were not officially recorded elsewhere. This study sheds light on the relationships of these invisible support networks to researcher productivity.

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A big picture: bibliometric study of academic publications from post-Soviet countries

2021

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The world’s largest community of scientists disintegrated following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. With extremely scarce resources and limited academic freedom as starting points, researchers in this region have been creating new knowledge; they have been building on rich scientific traditions in selected disciplines and, at times, paving new paths in non-traditional disciplines. At present, the cumulative contribution of post-Soviet countries to global research output is only three percent, indicating that these countries are not key players on the global research scene. This study uses bibliometric methods to offer novel empirical insight into the quantity and impact of academic publications; it also looks at the quality of journals in which the output is published. The findings reveal that fifteen post-Soviet countries differ considerably in terms of how much they have prioritised research, as well as the quantity, quality, and impact of their publications. The research productivity across the region has not been high and, taken together, these countries have produced publications of considerably lower quality and lower impact when viewed in the context of global research output. At the same time, researchers from post-Soviet countries tap into international collaborative networks actively, resulting in an exceptionally large proportion of publications from this region being internationally co-authored. In the historical context of Soviet research being known as one of the least collaborative globally, this finding indicates that researchers in the region are attractive to international collaborators and may be seeking such partnerships due to relatively modest research capacity at home.

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Scientific collaboration policy

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In Between Centre and Periphery: Kenya as a Key Scientific Nation in East Africa?

In Between Centre and Periphery: Kenya as a Key Scientific Nation in East Africa?

Using egocentric analysis to investigate professional networks and productivity of graduate students and faculty in life sciences in Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan

A big picture: bibliometric study of academic publications from post-Soviet countries

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